To the girls: Do you look for chess in a guy?

For all those girls that I see when I go to tournaments, just out of curiosity, are chess players a "wow we have similar interests" or are they a "ew he's going to end up bald with glasses let's avoid him" kinda thing?

Let's be nice :)

Chess causes baldness and blindness!?

I know that looks are not everything however I would not be interested in any guy who is bald, ugly, wears glasses and is a complete nerd. Further a similar interest could be a good thing, but will never be the reason and certainly not the only reason why I like a guy.

Further I have not attended any real chess tournament (I started playing chess seriously 1.5 month ago), nor am I member of  a chess club, so I can't say much about what girls who play chess think about guys who play chess in general.

well..in my experience the majority of players that are in chess tournaments are already bald and wearing glasses.

Oh my god I love guys with glasses! Guys that take polls of what women like? Not so much.

great, now someone will start a thread - "to the girls - do you like guys that make polls about whether girls like guys that make polls about what girls like in guys". 

women only like winners

chess playing boyfriends rule

Quit dreaming, dude.

Ok I'm a guy here but had to jump in......Girls and guys just don't mix in chess. If the girl wants to proceed then she risks ending up with a stale mate.

I met my exgirlfriend at my local chess club. We had a lot of fun playing chess together during lunch at the college we went to, and we'd go to parks and play together and just enjoy the scenery. We came up with a bunch of chess jokes, it was a lot of fun actually. It wasn't so fun how things ended, but chess was a good excuse to spend time together.

Maybe its an anomaly, but a lot of really pretty young women tend to show up at my chess club. A lot of the guys who go there play sports and don't look "nerdy" so that might be part of the reason.

What girls would do for a chess guy.

I was playing this guy in the club championship. He called and asked if I knew a place to play. I suggested the college I was attending at the time. We met at the college and found a nice, quiet room to play in. We set up the board, the pieces, the clock and began. I forgot to mention the guy brought his girlfriend to the game. And this lady was drop dead gorgeous.

I would give the sun and the moon to hold that girl. She was like an angel who had just floated down from heaven. Occasionally I would glance over to her face and she would be looking at me with those cobalt, blue eyes. Man, I felt a shiver run down my spine. Once I caught her licking her lips and I left my Bishop hanging. Was she a part of the game, was the guy using her to distract me?

To make a long story short---the guy beat me like a child---took his girlfriend and left. He beat several other guys and became club champion.

That woman crosses my mind once in a while. She was the first girl I would give up my rusty old pickup truck, and my dog, and my favorite fishing pole for!

And my Playboys, and my old baseball cards, and dippin snuff. I would quit drinking beer, give up my poker night, and quit leaving the toilet seat up.

Do you think that woman was using me---thats not right! Thats not legal! I demand a recount!

Yes, a sure fire way to impress the ladies.

72, that was a good story lololo

When I first met my wife She was a doll back then, we now are old like the leaves of fall! I did not know what to do to impress her so I took her out to dinner,. before that she showed me a nice club we could have acouple adult drinks I paid all the bills.

I did not feel I made much of a impression on her but the next time we got together, I was lost at what to do?  So asked if she would like to go to the service club and have some "free doughnuts and coffee and we can play a game of chess.  And she really enjoyed that, and she must have felt I was the more serious and reliable type, so thanks chess, we got married!

For obvious reasons, there's a little selection bias around gender centric polls here.

Well, it's clear now that chess does not in fact cause baldness. That's a relief.

So maybe guys are the better communicators after all.

Actually I did not think tooo many women would reply to this question, some stones should be left unturned. So my example indirectly as it may be, could be that one woman, was impressed with a chess player!?  And bald and glasses really has no intimate relationship with those that play chess! Its more like in the family genes.

Most of my friends are chess players, so it is nothing special for me.

Sounds like a dangerous sport, perhaps I should just quit before either of these catastrophy gets to me