Mon 24 Sep 2007

Aah... Chess Humour

Via Mig Greengard, writing on the current chess world championship, being played in Mexico City:

[Peter] Svidler finally decided it was Bring Your Cojones to Work Day after eight rounds of pain and a winless -2 score.

And then coffee went up my nose.

[Just in passing, for those who just play chess socially: This isn't some new scoring system where you can score negative amounts. "-2" means he's had two more losses than wins; and in this case, it means two losses, no wins and 6 draws, since Mig was writing about the round 9 game (so 3 points from 8, in normal terms).]

Topics: chess