Why does society hate chess?

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W el e phantsy that.

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Its very simple you need a BRAIN to understand the CHESS, and if you dont have BRAIN then you will Hate it.

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Fivewords you make it sound like you were there, how do you know his captains were annoyed ,I heard they totally idolized him

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dashkee94 wrote:
trysts wrote:

I never thought I would be reading about war elephants today

trysts, I thought you kept up on the Republicans--am I wrong?

I'm not educated enough to tell the difference between the partiesWink

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ha!! elephants

http://youtu.be/-KYfnhCSl7k

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I'm confused. What does chess had to do with elephants?

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trysts wrote:
dashkee94 wrote:
trysts wrote:

I never thought I would be reading about war elephants today

trysts, I thought you kept up on the Republicans--am I wrong?

I'm not educated enough to tell the difference between the parties

Yeah, between the braying jackasses and the war elephants, there's not much difference here in the US.

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Solastalgia wrote:

Wow, 90 minutes of enslaved elephants. Hard to watch

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isabela .....the rooks .....the elephants ....I can ...not...breathe

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They are not enslaved for 90 minutes they all die a pitiful death about 50 min in.

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isabela14 wrote:

I'm confused. What does chess had to do with elephants?

"The bishop's predecessor in shatranj (medieval chess) was the alfil, meaning the elephant, which could leap two squares along any diagonal, and could jump over an intervening piece."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_(chess)

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Solastalgia wrote:

They are not enslaved for 90 minutes they all die a pitiful death about 50 min in.

Frown

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No way, bishops? I thought it was the rooks who were elephants first. Is this why bishops are so much more awesome than knights then?

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Why don't elephants like playing on chess.com in the jungle?

Because of all the cheetahs.

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Solastalgia wrote:

No way, bishops? I thought it was the rooks who were elephants first. Is this why bishops are so much more awesome than knights then?

It really depends on what you want for breakfast--waffles or pancakes?

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AussieRookie wrote:

Why don't elephants like playing on chess.com in the jungle?

Because of all the cheetahs.

Inside chess-jokeWink

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stuzzicadenti wrote:

baby elephants so cute :)

Elephants are amazing! I've no doubt more intelligent than us humans:)

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an elephant's trunk has about 40 000 muscles and it takes a baby elephant almost two years to learn how to use it properly. Humans have 639 muscles in total.

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interesting!

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And elephants are brown ,not grey as many believe. the entire Eiffel Tower is painted African elephant brown.