Reading Chess Book on Public Transport

Hi all,

I had a fairly long train journey the other day (working on-site for a few days), and took a couple of books along to read - one of them being the "Mammoth Book of the Greatest Chess Games" - or at least I think that's what it's called...

Anyway - I just wondered if anybody else feels like such a complete geek if you read a chess book in public? 😀

I know I did, but it didn't stop me reading it 🙂

Originally posted by jonbeckett73
Hi all,

I had a fairly long train journey the other day (working on-site for a few days), and took a couple of books along to read - one of them being the "Mammoth Book of the Greatest Chess Games" - or at least I think that's what it's called...

Anyway - I just wondered if anybody else feels like such a complete geek if you read a chess book in public? 😀

I know I did, but it didn't stop me reading it 🙂

I used to get copies of the old Soviet magazine Shakmatny Bulletin, and would read these on the underground.
Not sure whether it was the chess or the Russian which was getting the funny looks.

I just bought two Java (programming) books, so I shall be reading those on the bus on my way home. We shall see what sort of looks I get for my geeky transgression.

I take the cover off a Penthouse and put it over my Chess Life. Problem solved.

P

Originally posted by Phlabibit
I take the cover off a Penthouse and put it over my Chess Life. Problem solved.

P

I don't get strange looks on the tube for reading chess books, but I did for both 'Atheism, the case against god - George H. Smith' and '120 Days of Sodom - Marquis de Sade'