... you think life imitates chess.
You might be a chess player if...

...you've ever referred to your children as "My little pawns"
hahahahahahaha omg!!!

You might be a chess player if....You scrutinize positions on any chess board shown on TV or in films.

I bet you this was a very good chess movie!
xman720 wrote:
Bonsai_Dragon wrote:
You might be a chess player if....You scrutinize positions on any chess board shown on TV or in films.
On a plane I once saw this movie about chess that was about some female South African chess player. One time a scene went to a position she was playing for less than a second and I immediately said "whoah, that's not good. White has a smothered mate in five." I guess that kind of ruined the next 30 seconds for me where you were supposed to be impressed and surprised by the protagonist's queen sacrifice.
The climax of the movie was really weird and made no sense. The audience cheered after she promoted a pawn in a position where she was already up two rooks and her opponent's king was in the middle of the board about to get checkmated. It was almost like an "it's time to resign" pawn promotion rather than a "now I win" promotion but everyone was hold their breath wondering who was winning.

Ttue!
Bonsai_Dragon wrote:
You might be a chess player if....You find yourself discussing a movie about chess on a chess forum. lol

...you see a black and white checkered tile floor and invariably wonder if you could play a giant chess game on it.
You're impressed by a bombers' use of c4