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10 Undeniable Signs You’re a Chess Player

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
04.30.2014
Category: General Information
10 Undeniable Signs You’re a Chess Player

With more than 700 million people in the world playing chess. The chess players come in different forms, ages and strengths.

But some of the things ‘come standard’ for all chess players.

Here are the 20 undeniable signs that you’re a chess player!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Your ‘heroes’ are Fischer, Kasparov, Capablanca or the likes.

 

2. When you see ‘L-shaped’, you think of the ‘Knight’.

 

3. When you see chess, anywhere, you get excited.

 

4. When you hear words ‘bishop’ or ‘pawn’ you always think chess.

 

5. You can name top 10 Grandmasteres from FIDE ratings list in your sleep.

 

6. After losing a chess game, you cannot fall asleep sometimes.

 

7. You dream of becoming a GM, someday.

 

8. You don’t understand how is that someone doesn’t know how a Rook moves.

 

9. When you see an imprinted chess position, you immediately start solving it.

 

10. When you see a chess board image, you automatically check the correctness of King and Queen placement as well as the board orientation.

 

11. When you have 10 minutes to spare, you think of playing a blitz game.

 

12. You are extremely competitive over the board and lose means end of the world.

 

13. Winning a good game of chess can make your day… or a week.

 

14. You know how to appreciate a beautiful Queen sac with a mate in 3 coming.

 

15. You think Houdini is a chess engine, not a magician.

 

16. You know what words like ‘en-passant’ and ‘castling’ mean.

 

17. You know the list of the World Champions better than the presidents.

 

18. When choosing between Android and iOS you think in terms of who has the best chess apps.

 

19. You can name at least 5 favorite chess websites you visit often.

 

20. You know what ‘2800’ rating means.

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Celso
07.15.2015 12:12

#18: iOS, by far.

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Master
07.02.2015 08:37

All 😆

Just 9 when I have time sure I’ll try to solve it 😉

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Yury
07.29.2014 05:11

[quote name=”Gedas”][quote name=”Yury”][quote name=”Alain”]true.I have 11 out of 15[/quote]
It’s actually 20 of them… ;-)[/quote]

And it should be only 10. According to the name of the arcticle ;)[/quote]

Good catch, I will change the title 😉

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Gedas
07.25.2014 14:46

[quote name=”Yury”][quote name=”Alain”]true.I have 11 out of 15[/quote]
It’s actually 20 of them… ;-)[/quote]

And it should be only 10. According to the name of the arcticle 😉

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rolly esguerra
06.18.2014 22:05

i love this game since im here in kuwait 2007

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Alfredo
05.17.2014 15:42

100% accurate…

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Alain
04.30.2014 19:45

true.I have 11 out of 15

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thepncstyle
05.02.2014 21:03

Just under the 11th sign-sentence, in the picture with the chessboard and the pieces, the white king and queen are placed in a wrong way!

Good job, I really enjoyed the 10 or 20 signs (especially the 10th) 😀

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Vladamir Gauss
05.01.2014 10:03

[quote name=”Yury”][quote name=”Alain”]true.I have 11 out of 15[/quote]
It’s actually 20 of them… ;-)[/quote]

There are three kinds of mathematicians
Ones who know how to count and ones who dont.

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Karen
04.30.2014 14:57

I really love this game since childhood, and even though I don’t play this game anymore, still I love this game. Chess is life!

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Kenny Koh
04.30.2014 14:13

I can’t believe it! All of these signs seem to be describing me! How did you do that?!

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facebook page
05.01.2014 11:36

Excellent blog you have got here.. It’s difficult to find
high-quality writing like yours these days. I seriously appreciate people like
you! Take care!!

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Yury
05.01.2014 03:09

Hello everyone, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Chess players have [b][b]a lot[/b][/b] in common 🙂

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Yury
05.01.2014 03:13

[quote name=”Alain”]true.I have 11 out of 15[/quote]
It’s actually 20 of them… 😉

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mightyJUNJUN
05.03.2014 00:54

1,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20

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