What is the best way to distract your opponent in over the board chess?

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I once choked and gagged past a cigar smoker almost 35 years ago. It was one of my most difficult wins.

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DrSpudnik wrote:

Eat something with onions in it and sigh a lot. That got me once. I walked right into mate against a dingbat.

haha!

I have little chess experience, but i worked with an ass years ago that would just not leave me be. one day i knew he would be bothering me, so, at lunch i had extra garlic, and, on cue, there he was. so i got in his face.

it worked.

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0110001101101000 wrote:
chessfreak wrote:
0110001101101000 wrote:

Is it one of those things where they find a little cancer and it's probably going to be ok.

Or they found a lot of cancer and she's going to die relatively soon for sure?

Why would you ask her that?

Mostly I don't believe her in the first place. Mentioning it over and over to strangers doesn't seem genuine... just like her topics. She's doing it for effect. In part, I'm interested in her reaction to this kind of question, so I can get a better feel for whether it's real.

But sure, even if she's doing it for effect it might be real. So also in part I don't appreciate the attempt at emotional manipulation. So I offer to continue the conversation in an emotionally cold way.

I am being genuine.  Her doctor is hesitant to fully elaborate on the prognosis.  I don't mind you being cold to me.  But I am not going for any kind of emotional manipulation.  Just distracting with chess.

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start to chat

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Ruy Lopez suggested you should get your opponent seated with the sun in his eyes.

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MarcoBR444 wrote:

This is very distracting indeed, and I am sure even other girls likes it.

 

Beautiful, isn't it??

 

 

Yes, that would do it for me.  I wonder if she'd be willing to spend the knight and sacrifice her honor.  But seriously, isn't this former Women's World Chess Champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk?

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RKiDZ wrote:

 

you could place your homemade clock on the table

 

if your playin ones who come from countries were bathing is optional

 

I cracked up at the first photo.  Nobody can beat clock boy at anything, including chess; he's a genius, don't ya know?  The President and Bill Gates told us so.  Scammed by a family of putzes.

Unfortunately, the second photo is no joke.  I once sat across from a young man at an open tournament in the 1980s whose BO was so strong it nearly burnt my eyes.  I felt like asking him if he'd be willing to bottle it so I could use it in my garden to keep the squirrels from nibbling my tomatoes.  I ended up drawing the game.

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This photo is soooooo sexy just because she is not trying to be sexy, just playing some chess.

Beautiful this girl.

Yes, she is GM Kosteniuk, former World Champion.

 

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MarcoBR444 wrote:

This photo is soooooo sexy just because she is not trying to be sexy, just playing some chess.

Beautiful this girl.

Yes, she is GM Kosteniuk, former World Champion.

 

 

No joke, she's cute, sexy and obviously intelligent, or is that considered a "micro-aggression" by the PC or Perpetually Castigating crowd?

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Pointing out micro aggression is considered a micro aggression.

Even using the term micro aggression is a micro aggression.

It's more appropriately called a "differently sized discomfiture."

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So is a macroagression a nuclear attack?

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0110001101101000 wrote:

Pointing out micro aggression is considered a micro aggression.

Even using the term micro aggression is a micro aggression.

It's more appropriately called a "differently sized discomfiture."

Oops, I forgot.  Mea culpa! Mea culpa!  Differently sized discomfiture, ey?  I'll have to remember that. Wink

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dpnorman wrote:

So is a macroagression a nuclear attack?

No, that's when I have problems with my Crohn's disease and other people have to suffer olfactorily.

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DrFrank124c wrote:
Fiveofswords wrote:

sorry that cancer exists btw. i had to spend a fortune on alchohol and strippers to cope with my father's death. it did help a little. i cant imagine what i would do if i were female and unable to benefit from strippers.

There are clubs where men take off their clothes to the delight of the ladies. I once applied for a job in one of those places but they paid me money to keep my clothes on! 

 

hehehe

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thecentipede wrote:
 

 brilliant pic to distract

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OnceUponaCheckmate wrote:

Why distract your opponent? Just try play your best game, period.

What if you aren't good enough to win so you distract with your natural tatic.

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#63 is just unreal.

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thecentipede wrote:
 

Good, humorous photo.  You ought to train your dog to jump up on a chair, sit down opposite your opponent at a chess tournament and nose out the e4 pawn.  Quite surreal.  I bet that would get some looks.

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MarcoBR444 wrote:

 

Beautiful this girl.

 

 

8O if I was playing chess w/ her I would blunder every move