If you happen to be a hunk, you might be able to get away with liking chess. There's a tiny chance she'll think it's cute. My advice is the same as yorygregovitch: Do a lot of pushups and bench presses. Then when you go on your date, if you're willing to take a risk, play against her. Good luck.

I'll leave it to George Costanza to show you what not to do.

in my opinion u can impress her with anything u thrive for. it doesn't matter what it is. it can be card collector...chicken lover...Bird watcher...politic activist...it doesn't really matter what it is ...WHAT REALLY MATTERS IS THAT YOU SHOW YOUR PASSION ABOUT THE GAME. SHOW THAT U HAVE PASSION FOR SOMETHING. PASSIIN will take u far.

Oh, it's very funny!!!  xD This is it's title, hope you can find an available version:

"SNL Digital Short: Seducing Women Through Chess - Saturday Night Live"

Depends. 

Women love when guys are really passionate about something, but only as long as that passion is really useful and interesting. 

A guy can be very passionate about capturing all the Pokemons, and unless the women is a 15 year old girl or very very immature (And why would you like a woman like that?) she will not find that attractive at all. She will think you are still a boy, and she wants a man. 

Chess is not regarded as something that a really successful person will spend a lot of time on.

If you talk about how you spend 5 hours a day on chess and how you are learning the Catalan opening and how you defeated somebody with 200 points more than you it is much more likely that she will think "Damn, I am with a nerd" than "OMG! I love how passionate he is about this!".

And one last thing, I know that many people for some very weird reason think that chess is a sport.

Please never ever tell that to a woman (Or to any person) because they will dump you immediately! (And they will be right!) 

Being said that there is a scenario where chess can actually impress a woman. 

If there is a chess club or something and there is this "Super cool guy" who crushes everybody and mocks them, and then you come, you do not make any trash talk but you simply play and beat him...that will impress people. 

But it is not really chess itself what impress them, it is the fact that you are someone who is really good at something. That is always impressive. 

But for chess, they have to understand it and they have to see it. 

If you just say "I have a 1200 rating and I just beat a 1500 on the Internet" she will be like "Oh, that's great!" but she will forget about it in 3 seconds. 

If you want to "impress" someone, then you are already doing it wrong.

Impressing a woman involves a long series of exchange sacrifices. Sometimes you will achieve a good position, other times your compensation will be 'unclear'.

#1. Don't dress to.impress. Just be yourself. You're a jammie guy? Go in your jammies.

#2. Always bring extra cash, If things go south, you can take her to the bar and get her liquored. You'll instantly become more attractive to her, or another, more handsome chap at the bar will. At least she'll have fun, on you.

#3. ALWAYS have a backup date. A woman once told me "I wanted to be excited about this date, but I'm not." Run, and call your backup. The night is young and you're younger.

This was all free, next time I will charge.

Tell her you a bishop   basher, always works for me.

I couldn't help writing when I saw this topic :-D but guys, those that have commented so far, isn't it rather sad that people who are members on a chess website do not believe that chess is something interesting that you can show to others, and impress them by your skill in it? he could, if there is enough time and nothing special to talk about, just try asking that woman whether she plays chess and whether she would like to play with him? if she says she just knows the rules but is not really good at it, he could say he also only just started playing several months ago. and later, after defeating her, maybe she will be like "wow, you are so good, you must be really clever"

How to impress a woman with chess ? - Easy, promote your Pawn into a Bishop. 

you don't.

to impress her with your chess , read the following lyrics based on a poem .

Come let's play…

I will gift you my Queen.

She was once my dearest one.

But I no longer have one now.

I will gift you my rooks. I no longer shoot my friends.

They have died long ago before me.

Everything, everything i ll give you everything 
Everything, everything  I'll even give you my knights

. I will only keep this jester of mine.

Who only knows how to move on one color.

Striding from one end to the other.

Laughing at all your armor. Entering your lines all of a sudden.

Disrupting solid line ups.

Come let's play…

This King was never mine.

And after all, why do I need all these soldiers?

Moving forward, bowed, with no dreams.

Everything, everything i ll give you everything 

this game has no end ...

This doesn't seem the right context to me. However, I always felt playing blindfold games or giving a simul and beating everybody is the best way to impress (any) bystander. Against non chess players, the topic in conversation should be avoided at all costs. 

Best advice here. If you INSIST on bringing it up you can ask "y'ever play chess?" If you're lucky she will show complete disinterest and the convo will end there. 

1.' Yeah, go on your jammies. But then do not be surprised if after 5 minutes she tells you ¨Oh, I am so sorry, my boss just called me and he needs me to be immediately at the office right now. Sorry, we talk later. Bye!¨

2.- No. Alcoholize a woman to get something from her is something that only complete losers do. 

3.- More than a backup date I would say ¨Always have a B plan¨. If a date does not go as planned, do something else (You can do it yourself, with friends, with other woman etc.)

Women will judge your intellect by your way of speaking, by your sense of humor, by your way of acting in certain situations.

Just playing chess is not a guarantee that you are an intelligent person, and in this forum we have countless examples of that.  

If you exercise your mind it is great and she will appreciate it, but if you talk too much about it it will annoy her. 

Same for the guys that go to the Gym and aside of that they do not have any other conversation subject. Girls become annoyed and bored of guys who are obsessed with something. 

A woman will not get impressed because you play chess. Chess is not regarded as a serious profession or an activity that is really impressive. 

It is not regarded as something cool and fun, it is mostly regarded as a boring board game for grandpas. 

No one normal woman will judge you negatively for exercising your mind, but no one normal woman will get impressed because you play a board game.

If playing chess is your main weapon to try to impress her, you are absolutely roasted.  

You just get on that horse and save Potter and Granger.