Xadrez e Bom Humor: Piadas Enxadrísticas

Livros sobre xadrez são muitos e variados. Garimpando por aí, podemos encontrar verdadeiras jóias literárias sobre o nobre jogo. Uma dessas eu achei na Kindle, e se chama Chess Jokes, de Danny Trevanion. Comecei a ler e terminei no mesmo dia. Aí vão as anedotas que eu mais gostei:

• How do chickens play chess?

With a chess cluck.

• To become a great player you first have to learn the basic chessentials.
• Who are the fastest chess players?

The Rush-sians.

• What do you call a grandmaster behind his back?

Wesley So and So.

• Knock knock

Who’s there?

Yifan.

Yifan who?

No. Hou Yifan!

• What do we have to worry about most with the development of chess A.I?

It becomes Magnus Carlsentient.

• What furniture do all stalemates take place on?

A chess of drawers (chest of drawers = cômoda).

• What strategy does a grandmaster execute if his breath is smelly?

Use his chess tic tacs.

• What is the most important tactic to use when playing the Ancient Greeks?

Controlling the Centaur.

• Peter: I’m not playing chess with you if you keep using astrology to make your moves.

Paul: I was defending my Pisces.

• Why is chess not the most complicated board game?

Because there is only one place to Go.

• What is a chess player’s favorite music?

Rook and roll.

• How does a grandmaster relax?

With Chessentials oils.

• How do you avoid chess with your uncle?

Playing en pass aunt.

• What’s a grandmasters favorite holiday?

Chessmas.

• What site does Pinnocchio use to play?

Lie chess.

• Chess is imitating life. When paying the other day I didn’t remember my PIN and so heard “check, mate”.
• What award is presented to the best players who can cook at the same time?

Grandmasterchef.

• What do lazy players use to decide who wins?

The unwritten rules of chess.

• Why is a player perpetually worried?

Because of Murphy's laws of chess.

• How is does a player become most wanted?

Be on the wrong side of the laws of chess.

• How do Catholic grandmasters address their priests?

“Chess me father, for I have sinned”.

• Are you sure you can play on a checkers board?

Well chess and no.

• In my last game I was totally crushing my opponent. I lost badly, but I really fancied him.

Se quiser adquirir a obra inteira (to buy the book), acesse https://www.amazon.com.br/Chess-Jokes-Biggest-Book-Original/dp/B0BSJM87NQ (não estou ganhando comissão). Recomendado!