Archive for the ‘jokes’ Category

Geico Chess Commercial

Posted: July 25, 2010 in jokes
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I’m normally not a fan of Geico’s commercials, especially those caveman ones, but this one regarding chess and that famous soccer announcer is very funny.

So, I had this idea for a new article.  Why not search the web and find various sites that sell t-shirts related to chess?  Even though it’s a niche product, there must be hundreds of websites with cool t-shirts, right? Well in the end, after a bit of surfing the web, I did find a [...]

“Fight Club” Parody

Posted: October 4, 2009 in jokes, Video
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For those of you who have seen the movie Fight Club, somebody came up with a very funny parody of it called “Chess Club”.  If you look closely, you’ll see they make the common error of setting up the board incorrectly – dark squares on the right hand side, but only a chess geek like me would notice [...]

The site has been updated with a variety of new content for your enjoyment.  Feel free to explore the new posts in the news,  jokes, and trivia sections. We also have added a new chess store “The Chess Zone” which is a local Haverstraw business that offers a wide variety of resonably priced merchandise on [...]

Top 10 List

Posted: May 17, 2008 in chess, jokes
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We have a new entry in our “Fun Stuff / Trivia” section.  head on over to that section of our site to find out the “Top 10 Reasons Chess is Better than Baseball”. This can be a fun new feature to the site.  Send us your ideas for future lists.  We’ll be happy to post [...]