– when you play the piano between rounds in the room adjacent to the tournament room, and you hesitate to play certain notes with your left hand because it might yield the opposition to your right hand.
Bill Smythe
Would that be the Giuoco Piano?
And the people who play the piano adjacent to the tournament room DURING the round may hesitate to play notes with the left or right hands because some irate participants broke them.
Your Benoni and your Benjamin?
Sometimes, after a long game, I go out into the parking lot and find myself worrying about a fire hydrant threatening to capture a lamp post.
Actually, I seem to remember thinking my left thumb was the black king, and my right thumb the white king, and I was afraid to let them get too close to each other. It made for a somewhat uncomfortable cadence.
Bill Smythe
What’s the key move?
– when the horsies appear to gallop across the board by themselves during a game.
– when you go to an Italian restaurant and start using the salt, pepper, and cheese shakers to play a game on the red and white checkered table cloths.
– when someone tells you “Good night,” and all you can think about is the bad bishop in your last game.
For the video see cavemanchess.com/Selecting_Coach.htm
I think you’ve been playing too much chess when logic and proportion have fallen, sloppy dead, and the White Knight is talking backwards, the Red Queen says “Off with her head”. Either that, or you’re listening to too much Airplane.
Back in 1986, I was playing way too much. I had entered a club championship, and was about 2 or 3 rounds into the event, until I got a retail job, which eventually forced me to withdraw from the tournament since I could not get off. I had to postpone 1 round with an opponent, and the following week, I decided to do a “2 Board Simul”, 1 with the current opponent, and the other from the postponement, and like trying to play the piano with 1 hand and move the chess piece with the other hand, I attempted to move the a-pawn as white on the left hand board, and the a-pawn as black on the right hand board, and ended up pulling a muscle, LOL!! This episode gave me the excuse with my boss at the time, on how I got hurt playing chess.
Hope you enjoyed!!
David A. Cole
… before pulling in your chair to the Thanksgiving dinner table you say “j’adoube”.
You should have moved both h-pawns instead.
Bill Smythe