Do You Think That Chess and Bowling Are Related?

Of course.

In the same way chess is related to stupid threads

in chess you have forks, in bowling you have splits. you have to keep score in both games. And in bowling if you get three in a row."Best Bowling Shoes Review"  http://mybowlingmate.com

No brah they are not brah. Topic closed brah

Ah, the jackboot of solemnity crushing the soul of silliness ... would that it were not always so.

I am just trying my best brah, I am rated 789 in fide but am on 17 games winning streak here brah. You mirin my brah?

They are both sports

Sometimes we overlook the obvious.  Excellent point.

But neither is an olympic event. Another similarity.

Neither is a camping skill.

I do not see any similarity, bowling verses chess! For one thing you need to have good balls to do well, for the uninformed, one ball for your first throw, and one to pick up your spares!  Usually a lighter ball. No balls needed in chess!  In chess you should be very sober while playing if you want a chance to win, but in bowling not so, I have seen people bowl very high games in bowling while they were high also!!!! So boys and girls, lets talk about something else,religion or politics, or badminton?? OK, just having fun with you-all!

No Marks1420, chess is symbolically closest to a hearty Danish Rye bread, slicely-thicked, with a lotta butter. 

There is a book with many words which says chess is a sport

Of course.  Look at these guys working out the line

Marks1420 wrote:

I know blind people who can play in chess tournaments. There is no sport a blind person can play.

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I have coached a blind person to bowl. in southern California there is a whole league bowling for blind persons. The best bowler I knew averaged 170 each game . .

I also coached soccer in Santa Rosa, California where a 10 year played soccer and the soccer ball had a beeper so the blind player would know where the ball was . . . . The other sighted players never knocked him down . . .

Also there are special chess boards for blind people . . . and there is blindfold chess where a board and chess pieces aren't used . . .

LIVE AND LEARN! ! !

Chess and bowling very different.  Because in one, lots of the players wear rented shoes, and the players tend to get really sweaty, and most of them say really bad curse words under their breath when they make a mistake. And the other is bowling.

In chess the real chess players have a rating, the better the player the higher the rating.

2800, 2200, 1800 1400, 1000 all those are levels of playing chess.

Tactics are used at their level, openings and variations are used if they know them.

Those are the weapons chess players use.

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Bowlers compete and obtain averages, in house conditions 240, 220, 200, 180, 150 130, 100. The casual bowlers that rent shoes and uses a house plastic ball are not considered bowlers. Even those averaging high cannot compete with pro bowlers that have the tactical knowledge to bowl on pro oil patterns. They use tactics when they encounter pro patterns and attack the lanes according to previous methods done before. The have an arsenal of bowling balls to bowl good scores. A 200 average bowler does poorly on pro conditions.

Speed and accuracy and the correct ball is necessary to be used. Ball with 50 games are considered useless and the get another.

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The highest house average I've gotten is only 210. But competing for money when I was young head to head on house might have been 235+. But I sucked on pro oil conditions.

So chess and bowling Re totally different. Pro bowlers aren't beer drink in drunks nor do they rent house shoes. They buy them for $200.00, balls cost $200.00 + each and they might have a dozen. The most I've had was 12 plus one plastic ball.

DENVER is correct [and he knows a lot about bowling and is a very excellent amateur player!] 

Chess and bowling are related and also amateur chess and amateur bowling are related as are pro chess and pro bowling are related. 

By the way, just as chess and bowling are related--chess and poker is related in much the same way. [there is a pattern here]

Dear Friend and Fellow-Geezer DH,

Thanks so much for your response to my "rented shoes" comment.  It was thorough and cogent.  Unfortunately, I can't give you full credit for your answer, because the "correct" response would have been this:  "Ugh!  What a cheesy, predictable excuse for a joke that was!  You needed a drummer with a rimshot to punch up a groaner like that.  What's happened to you, MIL?  You used to say fairly funny things, but This?  Are you OK?  You'd tell us if you'd had a stroke or something, wouldn't you?"

(Don't feel bad, Denver -- I didn't expect anybody to get full credit.)

Your friend, MIL

Ponz, if chess and bowling were related, then most pro bowlers would be very good chess players, which is not the case! So how do you relate the two? Oh I would not call Denver an amateur bowler. He is almost pro level if not at his best! This is real bowling not like your wii -wii bowling Just thinking if there was a competition that had two pro bowlers and each had an amateur bowler, say like myself, 160 average or you, that would be fair, but if a pro had Denver as his team mate that would be very unfair!