I-was-saying "the baron is playing chess; he must be a lazy, shiftless bum"

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Bongcloud

    Frenchman's Cumsock

    Monkey Bum

    Only one of these is made up and the other two are the names of openings used by grandmasters in FIDE sanctioned events.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      I think we'll keep going with things that sound like what a 1780s aristocrat might say, anyone who knows chess will catch on to the bit when they notice.were just naming chess pieces and letters and numbers at random. Here's some others we've made up:

      The Brussels Wager

      The Haliburton Exit (mine, I thought it was clever)

      The Barcelona Maneuver

      The Antwerp Flank

      The Dreaded Parallel Strategem of the Swiss

      The Buckaneer Open

      The Proto Indo European Midgame Meta