chess games names

Submitted by emiab on Fri, 01/09/2009 at 1:12pm.

I just got a new topic for a blog post : the names of the games played here on chess com. I come here for the chess but I also come here more often than to my mail addresses. Come to think of it, that is not so weird. Afterwall, there are plenty of things people can do around here beside playing chess. I for once like to visit the forums and read the posts. I just came from a visit to one of my friend's profile and got hooked !!! There are so many games with names !! I like this . The game is personalized, there is a message in the name, not just "let's play ! ".

I'm just wondering, what are the funniest game names you have encountered here on chess com or on other sites ?

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by Dozy - 9 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 2097

Good grief, emiab ... here's nothing amateurish about your posts ... at least, no more so than the rest of us. In the chess.com blogosphere, anything that entertains or informs is well worth reading: and yours do all of that. And you have a quality that most of we "life" amateurs lack: you sometimes inspire!

I wouldn't read your blog if I didn't enjoy it ... I never know what's going to come out of it next.

by emiab - 9 months ago
Romania

Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 744

cockroaches have something called "resistance". No matter how hard you hit them they stand their ground......

I like the name of the game :) and I also want to thank you for the interest you take in my amateur posts.

by Dozy - 9 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 2097

I just found another odd name to add to the list:

Cane Toads and Cockroaches

Every year in Oz there's a series of Rugby League matches (it's something like football) between Queensland and New South Wales. Over the past 20 years an infestation of cane toads (ugly, venomous, frog-like abominations) from Queensland have been spreading across Australia. Consequently journalists from NSW started calling Queensland footballers "Cane Toads". The Banana-Benders (that's what we used to call them) weren't going to let us get away with that and started calling our footy players Cockroaches.

It wasn't long before that spread from football to the population as a whole and so, together with everybody else in this glorious State, I became a cockroach. And proud of it!!

So when I challenged Bazzman (a Queenslander) I used the name above.

by Dozy - 9 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 2097

I can recall three names that stand out.

One of my friends, who hasn't had a lot of luck playing against me, is responsible for the first two:

I want to try a new opening
Me beating you is just a matter of time

And the third one is current (de un bun prieten româneşte) was started when it was 2009 in the land of the Southern Cross, but still only 2008 in Europe. It's a reference to a Charles Schulz quote ("Don't worry if somebody says the world will end today; it's already tomorrow in Australia") on my web page:

It's 2009 already in Australia

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