Ozzie orders a Chess set old TV https://archive.org/details/OzzieHarriet--Chess_Set
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NYC Detective to Bronx stripper: "So ... you're a stripper, eh?"
"whad'ya THINK?? I was a CHESS player or somethin'??" [Johnny Fortune, Private Eye (1948 radio)]
Kurt Vonnegut makes his Protagonist a descendant of the 1st US Women's Chess Champion in the story _God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater_
an interesting little story you may enjoy is Fritz Leiber's _The 64-Square Madhouse_ (published in IF Reader of Sci-Fi 1966) and thank you for playing me
"Now, we have an impasse here, man. We're in pawn four, Bishop 4 and seven -- let's see. How do I finesse that?"~~~Charles Manson, parole hearing, 1990.
Judson Tate once played Chess with a set carved from the nasal bones of a tapir. (O. Henry, "Next to Reading Matter" [Everybody's Magazine, Dec. 1907])
Ezra "Spunk" Grindle was an unrated member of the Columbia Chess Club (William Graham, Nightmare Alley [Card XIII])
look at the ceiling & imagine a chess board & where the pieces were & play chess on the ceiling. (David Berg: The Happiest Christmas, 1985)
| Type | Rating | Best | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Wild | Rating | 1051 | Best | 1098 (30/Jun/2021) |
| Type | Blitz | Rating | 884 | Best | 1055 (06/May/2007) |
| Type | Standard | Rating | 1055 | Best | 1855 (03/Jun/2022) |
| Type | Bullet | Rating | 926 | Best | |
| Type | 5-minute | Rating | 838 | Best | 1049 (28/Jan/2022) |
| Type | 1-minute | Rating | 768 | Best | 986 (14/Sep/2022) |
| Type | 15-minute | Rating | 1271 | Best | 1500 (10/Dec/2022) |
| Type | 3-minute | Rating | 774 | Best | 1015 (07/Aug/2022) |
| Type | Chess960 | Rating | 1095 | Best | 1127 (26/Feb/2021) |
| Type | 25-minute | Rating | 1488 | Best | 1557 (16/Feb/2024) |