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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.
Posted by GarandFan | December 14, 2009 8:26 PM
Posted on December 14, 2009 20:26
GarandFan:
Yeah, how 'bout it? Full-contact chess on "Spike" TV!
Posted by Thunderbottom | December 15, 2009 7:17 AM
Posted on December 15, 2009 07:17
Staying with the theme: Let's arm the knights and pawns and make it like a real medieval tournament!
Posted by Tom Wms. | December 15, 2009 11:51 AM
Posted on December 15, 2009 11:51
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.
Posted by Cowboy | December 15, 2009 12:42 PM
Posted on December 15, 2009 12:42
“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
Posted by Terwiliger | December 15, 2009 5:09 PM
Posted on December 15, 2009 17:09
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.
Posted by john cox | December 15, 2009 6:46 PM
Posted on December 15, 2009 18:46
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).
Posted by Terwiliger | December 16, 2009 11:48 AM
Posted on December 16, 2009 11:48
I was never in the chess club. They didn't have ritalin then.
Posted by Tom Wms. | December 16, 2009 12:01 PM
Posted on December 16, 2009 12:01
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.
Posted by Terwiliger | December 16, 2009 4:28 PM
Posted on December 16, 2009 16:28
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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