Catchy "chessy" user names

I was wondering the other day, what makes up a good user name for a chess site? Do you guys have some examples? Mine obviously is silly - I named myself after some Belgian cartoon character (not after ketchup).

Quite obviously, naming yourself after a chess piece supported by a random number is quite common, but lame and uninspired - without naming names, something along the lines of GreenPawn34, whiteknight26...

Nor is naming yourself after some famous chessplayer or word plays on them - Weyerstrass, Bobby Chess, Korch, Fischerov ...

But there are some quite good examples of good chess-related user names, like "Fischer and Chips", "SwissGambit", "Fat Lady", "brainache", that have some sort of funny link to chess.

So share with us your beautiful chess user name...! 😉

A mahout is an elephant rider. Some early chess pieces featured elephants.

😞😉😀

Originally posted by Mahout
A mahout is an elephant rider. Some early chess pieces featured elephants.

If I were to choose myself a funky chess related name I'd go for ArchBishop.

Phil

Originally posted by MrPhil
If I were to choose myself a funky chess related name I'd go for ArchBishop.

Phil

My favourite username on this site is this guy's: User 336546. I asked him why he chose Shaka Igloo & his response was "It's like Shaka Zulu - only stupider."

Originally posted by Swiss Toni
My favourite username on this site is this guy's: User 336546. I asked him why he chose Shaka Igloo & his response was "It's like Shaka Zulu - only stupider."

Originally posted by heinzkat
His profile text is worthwhile 😛

Originally posted by Eric LeFavour
You could go with Chancellor? If you are referring to Capa chess. 🙂

Nowakowski

last name, and it means "New Man In Town" ... In English approximately.

-GIN

Originally posted by heinzkat
Fair enough, a chess piece with a detour, but to be honest, "Mahout" doesn't really sound catchy 😉

okay okay my name is lame and uninspired, named after a pawn

green - because I support Hibernian (Hibs).
pawn - I'm just a small cog in a big wheel.
34 - number of pieces in a chess set. (most come with two extra Queens).

And this has to be the saddest thread in the entire history of sad threads.

'If I could change my name I would choose.....'

would be a better thread.

I would change mine's to 'Exciting Rufus the Mighty Warrior of Death.'

Originally posted by greenpawn34
And this has to be the saddest thread in the entire history of sad threads.