So there I was at the stroke of midnight, contemplating the four-knights opening by the dim glow of a flashlight, ears popping under the extra five pounds per square inch of pressure.
On Friday night, Dan (who you may remember as the Robot9000 bot author), Elizabeth and I invented midnight underwater speed chess.
A nice feature is the naturally-enforced clock. You have as much time per move as you have air in your lungs. Protip: don’t use a glass set.
Now we just need to combine it with chess boxing.
Live chess boxing ought to be an Easter egg on Wii sports.
This sounds great! If only I could get over my phobia of being underwater. ;)
It’s so cool to see someone come up with a new, novel idea, and then see what directions others take it in (the underwater chess boxing ideas, people’s chess boards, etc.) Also, I’m sure it would be hard to play in a river, or one of those ‘endless pools’ that seem to be advertised in lots of magazines. Or the ocean, for that matter, lol. Maybe the pieces shoud be similar to the “weebles” toys, which are egg-shaped and can’t be knocked over. Something would have to be done to keep them from scooting around, however, but not always falling over might help a bit.
Anyway, thanks for the interesting idea and the cool comments. =)
thanx for nice share
Nothing to say but…. noticed you talked about the PSI increasing, and I thought I’d say
WANKER
Come on and start measuring pressure in kilopascals !!
That’s right, i’m throwing it down for the metric masses.
[...] also hilarious is a short post i found on the xkcd ‘blag’ where they invented midnight underwater speed chess. [...]
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You should change the pieces to make it truly “underwater chess”. :)
Games…
One of the themes……
A magnetic chess set would be ideal.