Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The hallway light went on. I knew they were in the groundstairs hallway (appartments @ 4 a.m.). There was no way out other than the way they came in.
So I threw Kellogs crunchy-nut cornflakes out of my window, in front of the main door.
I heard them trample one and curse. I waited. I could hear them talking. Cursing mostly.
2 hours passed. I listened. One of the goons then eventually realised I wasn't
interested in spotting them but was instead recording them. I heard the realisation
and threw a penny from my window to the door.
More cursing and much name calling.
I wait another 2 hours. Not so much waited but prepared my smoke machine
and built makeshift cattleprods from the mains.
Finally one of the goons says to the other. 'You know what he's doing to us is no
worse than what we were planning to him'.
I threw water from the window onto the flakes and waited.
I didn't look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckThis is like one of the Home Alone movies. LOL
Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The ...[text shortened]... look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
I'm glad you weren't harmed.
Originally posted by Fat LadyYou're entirely correct. It could all be in my head but then I'd be down a noodle and they're like 35p at least.
You seem quite pleased with your performance, but from where I'm standing it seems that you are 1p and an unspecified quantity of crunchy nut cornflakes down.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckYou might be a cereal killer.
Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The ...[text shortened]... look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckThe gambit of giving up the P for tempo is interesting.
Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The ...[text shortened]... look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
Do you think you got enough compensation for the cornflakes?
Of course psychology must have played a big part too.
Do you have a fen for the final position?
Originally posted by Thequ1ckI had a similar incident. I timed them out after the two hours. 😕
Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The ...[text shortened]... look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckIf you had instead used pot to alter your reality, at least you would have gotten to eat the cornflakes. 😞
Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The ...[text shortened]... look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
Originally posted by wolfgang59I'm not enough of a good chess player to be able to do that.
The gambit of giving up the P for tempo is interesting.
Do you think you got enough compensation for the cornflakes?
Of course psychology must have played a big part too.
Do you have a fen for the final position?
If you could start me off, I might be able to alter it accordingly.
edit: subsequently I had to move out and put my chess sets in storage.
Originally posted by Thequ1ckI might have been divorced if I had not stop playing chess 30 years ago.
Does anyone have any stories of how chess has directly played a role in 'real-world' situations?
For examples sake.
Recently I got into a mix where my front door was broken and a local nutcase knew about this and sent some goons around to kosh me over the head and then rob the place while I was in hospital.
I heard them coming and shouted out. The look.
They left with praises.
I have no doubt Chess helped me through this ordeal.
P.S. But I continued to play chest with my wife.