Signs you have potential as a chess player

signs your a good player

Your name is Paul Morphy

You can't make an Unsound Sacrifice, even if you Try

You no longer think that the queen cheats on the king when she mates the other king

You seem to understand how the knight moves

You don't liken the Bishop's shape to a condom

...reasons why you feel you have the potential towards being a good chess player.

My girl friend knows that I would never cheat on her. (Only in chess...but only if I can't bribe a tournament official with a few coins).

If I must blow my nose during a game, I always ask my opponent if I may borrow his hanky. (It is more polite than just grabbing for it.)

Sometimes, I get dyslexic and move the wrong piece. I announce my medical handicap and take the move back. Usually, that's acceptible. If, not, I bare my teeth and glare at my opponent until he changes his rotten, unsportsmanlike attitude.

 well said

the girl you have a crush on sits two desks over and one up from you, you look around to see who else she is forking

You walk like a Knight on Tile floors.

The IQ system is biased, anyone can get a high IQ score if the test was created in subject you excell at. That's why you can't give a French man an American IQ test the IQ test caters to American culture. Let alone a real IQ test take 2 weeks to complete and anything else isn't a true IQ test. I took College Psychology for one semester and we all had to take a IQ exam from a Board Certified Psychiatrist using a real IQ exam, I got 120 (above average but nothing special). If you can get a 160+, you won't be the one wasting your time on the internet bragging about being the .001 percent of the world with a "thing" bigger than 5 inch average.

 Also, anybody but an inexperienced fool knows most women aren't interested in 9 inches. He must be a sheep herder.

you post things in signs your a bad chess player and avoid everything in a chess game that people post in that forum.

Holy crap, I totally do that... not intending to "walk like a knight" mind you, but because that's often my approximate step length and I'm super OCD.

But hey, I still do it - I guess I must be a good chess player!!!    :D

I know people that walk over tiles as if they were knights... mostly when they are drunk!

Signs you have potential as a chess player:

You know all about en passant and don't embarass yourself at your chess club gathering by accusing your opponent of cheating.

You don't make posts on the chess.com forums asking why people don't resign in lost positions.

You don't make posts on the chess.com forums asking why someone got more time on their clock when they almost ran out.

Yes, but when was the last time you got laid? And I don't mean hookers or druken one night stands. When was the last time your made a real human connection? Aren't people turned off by your arrogance?

Wow, get a load of this guy.

Yeah, the point of this thread wasn't to air one's arrogance and the fact that one is a good player in chess but merely to point out signs that one has potential in being a good player. It's a fine line of distinction and I can see how this thread may have danger of inflating arrogance, but that wasn't the point. The point was to inject in struggling chess players.

Also, Kasparov wrote in one of his books about life and politics that chess grandmasters are not extremely intelligent or even above average thinkers, they are just excellent at chess. He also says that chess attracts snobish arrogant persons that want to show off their intelligence by playing a game that is culturally considered a game for intellectual persons.

Capablanca was probably better than you or I'll ever be. And he was a drunkard, ladies-man, and stand-up comedian. Morphy was not a genius outside of chess either, after he changed chess entirely destroying all of the European masters he simply went back to the USA to continue his carreer as a rather mediocre lawyer.

 He hasn't been back to answer. Perhaps he was put off by the lack of adulation by us mere mortals.

Perhaps he's busy putting on his pants. You know how much of a challenge that can be for one so physically gifted.

I figure he got interested in condensed matter physics after having to deal with being constipated for a week.

You guys are funny.