David Nezelek
Cibbuano
TyronneChess – A game of prestigious vintage.
October 17th 2007 00:02
Chess – A game of prestigious vintage.
Rook to Queen 6...gangbang!...oops wrong movie
Its origins date back thousands of years, evolving into different variants over the ages. Modern chess in the west is derived from Europe in the 15th century. A test of strategy, ingenuity and patience that has been handed down for generations, something vintage that still thrives in today’s technological age.
A more refined outlook
Carrying attaché this culturally significant pastime still exudes a style and class all its own. To call Chess just another board game, is to label a Faberge Egg as a trinket. Consider its participants engaged in a combative duel of wit and intellect. Every manoeuvre, flank and sacrifice of a man is as seriously procrastinated as a military general on the eve of battle. For chess is war!
The Ancient Greeks agree
Each piece holds a power in the assassination of a king. The foot soldier grunt is the frontline pawn. Manipulated and maneuvered for a greater victory, expendable with every forward move done at a cumbersome single square pace.
They come in all shapes and sizes
The horse soldier surprises with alternate patrol zones 1 forward or back and 2 across. Unlike any other killer on the black and white squares he can leap those who stand in his way without drawing blood.
The cavalry is on the march
The rook is a fortified castle. It patrols an entire vertical line in any direction that its lookouts spy. Never far from carnage Religion operates on the slanted, diagonal and is represented on the board by the Bishop.
The church ponders its position
The Queen naturally holds all the power. Slaughtering the king may be the object of the game but he merely moves one square in any direction. The Queen can pretty much go where ever she fancies.
Chess' goes to a galaxy far far away where no man has gone before.
Many great men have prided themselves on the ability to stand against the attack of an opponent. Positioned on the battlefield of 64 black and white squares, education has little bearing and physical strength none, all that matters is the power of the mind!
Stanley Kubrick took his game seriously
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
Pop Culturist
Pop Rock Factory
These guys actually encouraged a generational change to the game - which encouraged even sports loving schoolboys (like me) at the time that there was something cool about the whole chess thang!
Nice post
Comment by Mountain Fog
Infognito
Screen Trek
QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
Loved the photos too...I want a Star Wars one...!!!
cheers and check-(ya later)-mate!!
fog
Comment by Clint Emry
Strategy and Solutions
The book, The Immortal Game, is great. I highly recommend it. You would be surprised at how Chess has impacted man, anthropologically.
Do you play?