Chess In Real Life
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 9:46 pm
You know these skeptics who bang on about chess not being useful for anything meaningful, well I have gone and one upped the lot of them!
So I am out in this bar last night, sipping a nice bit of pear koppenburg, and I suddenly realise the dancefloor has black and white squares just like a chessboard which instanty got my approval.
"wouldnt it be great" I thought to myself "if there were some sort of special chess related dance to go with this classy floor" and suddenly it came to me - why not do a dance just like the way the chess pieces move.
It went down pretty well - the knight especially (everybody likes an ariel dance move after all) - and soon the whole club was doing it (well, maybe not 'doing' it but they were definately thinking about doing it while watching me) and to top it off I even ended up with a checkmate!
The icing on the cake was that I actually bought a chess set earlier in the day and had taken it out with me in the attempt at hussling a bit of money out of people, in the same way that the really good pool players do, but had no takers. However, the set did come in very handy as a pillow for my head on the bus ride home this morning.
So the lesson to be learned, can be summarised in this catchy little slogan I have invented:
Chess
It pays to play!
So I am out in this bar last night, sipping a nice bit of pear koppenburg, and I suddenly realise the dancefloor has black and white squares just like a chessboard which instanty got my approval.
"wouldnt it be great" I thought to myself "if there were some sort of special chess related dance to go with this classy floor" and suddenly it came to me - why not do a dance just like the way the chess pieces move.
It went down pretty well - the knight especially (everybody likes an ariel dance move after all) - and soon the whole club was doing it (well, maybe not 'doing' it but they were definately thinking about doing it while watching me) and to top it off I even ended up with a checkmate!
The icing on the cake was that I actually bought a chess set earlier in the day and had taken it out with me in the attempt at hussling a bit of money out of people, in the same way that the really good pool players do, but had no takers. However, the set did come in very handy as a pillow for my head on the bus ride home this morning.
So the lesson to be learned, can be summarised in this catchy little slogan I have invented:
Chess
It pays to play!
