someone: so... what do you do these days?
me: e4 i don't mind the sicilian i tend to play the english attack against it and it comes out fine, as black i like the french it looks harmless but it can bite......
someone: wait, what?!
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zlhflans wrote:
when you sit in a movie theater and the seats remind you of moves
You know your a chess addict when.......
lmao yes
Apr 22, 2009
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#424
When going to bed with your beautiful wife and playing your move are cause for serious consideration.
these things are true of me...i know im an addict an have been for 16 years
your friends make fun of you because all the reading material in your bathroom pertains to chess (all my chess life mags back from 1995-2009! silmans reassess your chess and Nimzo's my system)
you meet two estonian exchange students and ridicule them because you know more about paul keres than they do (and he's on one of their paper dollars!)
when you meet a latvian and ask if they ever met anyone with the last name Tal and they dont know who you are refering to!
when you work in a mental institution and tell your patients to hold on one more minute before they flip out and throw a chair at you cause your playing a live game while at work!
when you challenge mental patients to chess games then gloat over you win even though theyre doped up on halidol ive played some REALLY good players in mental institutions! one guy had USCF rating of 2300, we played 20 games i was white he used the french every game and i lost every one of them :(
when you find yourself talking about the subulties of emanual laskers style to your wife who dosent even know how to move the pieces...she lets me blab on and on about chess players--im sure shes not listening but it helps me work through my problems...
when alaxander alekhine is your idol, because he could play a mean game of chess drunker than a sailor on shore leave
when you stand up a hot girl to play chess with your nerdy friends (happened a long time ago, but man was she HOT...im so addicted)
when you can play a game bent over a sink, puking drunk (i drank a pint of wootherford reserve burbon 103.7 proof) not look at the board and still beat your sober friend!
when you would rather play chess than eat, sleep, shower or spend time with your wife
when you call your mom to tell her that you just beat your first A-class player
when you watch youtube clips of chessmasters and nothing else
when you challenge every russian you meet to a game of chess, just to see if they're all good--they are so far!
when you tell your loved ones to quit buying you those damn glass chess sets cause you already own three, theyre impractical and you dont want to play on glass
when you religiously oil your tournament board and shine the pieces once a season...
when you still own your first chess set, board, and clock and remenis about the games you played on it 15 years ago...i still have game scores from 1995 too, with notations, analysis and puctuation...
when you see a pretty girl playing chess and ask what positions she likes and it has nothing to do with sex then forget to ask for her phone number
You know you're a chess addict when, you play for a half of a day straight, and sun rise comes up on you by surprise.
Apr 24, 2009
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#427
better chess than drugs. better chess than porn right? okay maybe both chess and porn.
but mostly just chess.
You know you're a chess addict when you flip out because you forgot to get vacation time, and you will run out of time so you get the person next to you to give you their laptop.
Yeah, I did this.
I shut off my alarm clock in the morning while dreaming I was playing chess.
My opponent stopped and looked at the position after I made that extremely complicated exchange sacrifice in Kasparov fasion for about half an hour before making his move, and just then I realised I'm going to miss the bus to school and must get up now!
May 2, 2009
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#430
you know you're a chess addict when you laugh hard upon seeing photos like this:
when you realize you are failing 3 classes because you chose chess over homework (oops).
When you start buying Depend Underwear at age 13 because you don't want to leave your computer.
che-moi wrote:
you find yourself still playing on chess.com at 4am and you've got to be up for work at 7 !!
If you thought that che-moi was saying he made an excellent move
zlhflans wrote:
You know your a chess addict when you leave an extra tab open at work with c.com on it & you sneak moves between clients....
HAHAHA, that's exactly why I became a member of Chess.com
May 2, 2009
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#435
idricool wrote:
when you eat your food in front of the computer while playing chess...
You know your a chess addict when.........
HILARIOUS!!! I just warmed up some pizza and sat down at the computer to check my games a minute ago.... and was takeing a bite as I read your post:)
When you can spell Nimzowitsch and Dzindzichashvili correctly without looking them up in Wikipedia or a chess book.
when you have a midsemester exam tomorrow and yet your still playing chess at chess.com
me: "she's a killer, queen!! , gunpowder, gelatine; dynamite with a laser beam! guaranteed to blow your mind... anytime.... "
Yikes!!
excuse me... didn't notice you were all standing right here...
its ok freddy, sing killer queen all you want man rock on! you know youre addicted to chess when you walk across a tiled floor three squares forward then one square to the side
You know your a chess addict when you leave an extra tab open at work with c.com on it & you sneak moves between clients....