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GarandFan:

Gives some new meaning to "checkmate". Maybe that's just what chess needs in order to gain popularity. Throw in some gratuitous violence from time to time.

Thunderbottom:

GarandFan:

Yeah, how 'bout it? Full-contact chess on "Spike" TV!

Tom Wms.:

Staying with the theme: Let's arm the knights and pawns and make it like a real medieval tournament!

Cowboy:

Chess. How barbaric! All those pawns dieing and everything. Despicable!

Modern more sophisticated leaders of nations talk their way through a chess game. Talk your opponent into kicking over that King without sacrificing men and taking of pieces.

Maybe one should set a deadline of July 2010 to end the game. At that point you sacrifice your Queen and kick over your King.

Terwiliger:

“Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.” – George Bernard Shaw

john cox:

HEY T

I guess ANY diversion is a "waste of time" according to Shaw, an articulate pill who could suck the fun out of anything.

Terwiliger:

No doubt you're right about Shaw. Introspective to the point of being a dud.

How about this one?

“A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.” – George Steiner

BTW--I'm just stirring the pot (former chess club member).

Tom Wms.:

I was never in the chess club. They didn't have ritalin then.

Terwiliger:

They didn't have Ritalin in my skrool days either. It's just that by high skrool, the gubmint system had broken my spirit for "being edumucated." ANYTHING that was a diversion from the monotony of skrool was a welcome distraction...

...& even though I was in the chess club, there are no pictures to prove it. On "club picture day", I hid in the bathroom until the photographers left.

GarandFan:

On "club picture day", I hid in the bathroom until the photographers left.

Well there ya go! If chess were a full contact sport, the cheerleaders would have been all over you!

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