John A Swartz wrote:

Yes, I used to play an older gentleman that would say "Madame" when he
attacked my queen.

A cousin of mine insisted that it was illegal to attack a queen without
announcing it with "Gardé!", or "En Gardé!", and "Touché!" when
capturing the queen, so I need to do other capture after a nice fork or
something like (that time, I was a 10 year old patzer, now, besides
still being a patzer, I know a little more...).

Sorry for the "engrish".

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"Ray Gordon" wrote:

If you think that's bad, I once announced a mate in six without realizing
that tradition had changed in the past 150 years or so.


Yeah, well, can't you just say that that's what people did when you
learned to play? ;-)

--Harold Buck


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I almost forgot. When someone checks you and says "check," after you get out
you say, "uncheck". We did this for a night at club one time. It was
fun--once.
I can imagine a room full of tournament players doing this.

PJDBAD wrote:

I almost forgot. When someone checks you and says "check," after you get out
you say, "uncheck". We did this for a night at club one time. It was
fun--once.
I can imagine a room full of tournament players doing this.

Well, I will try this someday. Or another thing more funny: adding sound
effects to the moves. Can you imagine that? A room full of people making
strange noises while playing chess? You almost can tell the nurse is
late with the medication...

Sorry for the "engrish".

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"Cesar A. K. Grossmann" wrote:
.... Or another thing more funny: adding sound
effects to the moves. Can you imagine that? ....

I'm reminded of Bomb Chess. At the beginning of the game, each player
secretly designates one of his pieces as the Bomb. If a player captures the
opponent's Bomb, he loses immediately.

Invariably, the player whose Bomb is captured waits for his opponent to
press the clock, then makes an exploding noise.

Incidentally, to make it a real game, it is necessary to outlaw making the
Queen the Bomb. Too easy to get it forcibly captured. Of course, there
would be no point in designating your King as the Bomb, either.

Bill Smythe

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"Bill Smythe" wrote:

"Cesar A. K. Grossmann" wrote:
.... Or another thing more funny: adding sound
effects to the moves. Can you imagine that? ....

I'm reminded of Bomb Chess. At the beginning of the game, each player
secretly designates one of his pieces as the Bomb. If a player captures the
opponent's Bomb, he loses immediately.

Invariably, the player whose Bomb is captured waits for his opponent to
press the clock, then makes an exploding noise.

Incidentally, to make it a real game, it is necessary to outlaw making the
Queen the Bomb. Too easy to get it forcibly captured. Of course, there
would be no point in designating your King as the Bomb, either.


Yeah, but MY king is "da bomb"!

--Harold Buck


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and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
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"Bill Smythe" wrote in message
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"Cesar A. K. Grossmann" wrote:
.... Or another thing more funny: adding sound
effects to the moves. Can you imagine that? ....

I'm reminded of Bomb Chess. At the beginning of the game, each player
secretly designates one of his pieces as the Bomb. If a player captures
the
opponent's Bomb, he loses immediately.

Invariably, the player whose Bomb is captured waits for his opponent to
press the clock, then makes an exploding noise.

Incidentally, to make it a real game, it is necessary to outlaw making the
Queen the Bomb. Too easy to get it forcibly captured. Of course, there
would be no point in designating your King as the Bomb, either.

Can you designate pawns?

While on the subject, is it in the rules anywhere that you have to announce
"En Passant" captures? I just got off the phone with a friend who was
insisting that you must announce all "En Passant" captures.

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Was he putting the other player in check? There is no rule that I am
aware of that says you can't announce check if it is check. Now if it
wasn't check, I'd guess you have a complaint.

Ken

Actually, im pretty sure check or no check, the only time you speak to
your opponent is to offer a draw or to accept/decline such, to resign the
game, or to warn that you are about to adjust the pieces. Calling out
"check" to indicate such is against the rules, I do believe, and the TD
should make him stop at someones complaint.

Chuck wrote:
While on the subject, is it in the rules anywhere that you have to
announce "En Passant" captures? I just got off the phone with a friend
who was insisting that you must announce all "En Passant" captures.

As gorkov43 says, the only times at which one must speak to one's opponent
in a game of chess is to offer or accept a draw, to resign or to give
notice that you're about to adjust the pieces. To that, one could add
speaking to the TD to raise issues about the game.


Dave.

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"Alan O'Brien" wrote:
Can you designate pawns?

Sure. I had one opponent who, as Black, always designated his QN. He would
promptly maneuver it from b8-c6-b4-c2, and I had trouble getting away from
all the checks without capturing the Bomb. Eventually, I simply designated
my c2-pawn as my Bomb, never moved it from its original square, and simply
waited for his QN (alias his Bomb) to capture it. Bomb takes Bomb, of
course, is a losing move.

Bill Smythe