I saw a chess set in store window the other day that had a shot glass built into each piece. This gave me a great idea: fill each glass with liquor, and play chess as usual EXCEPT after capturing any piece you must immediately drink the shot. Just think of how effective gambit play would now become. Offer up pawns and pieces in the opening to gain a rapid lead in development AND get your opponent drunk! My favorite opening as white would now be the Danish Gambit. Give away 3 pawns in the opening, and get the other guy half loaded. What do you all think? Oh, by the way... don't play chess and drive. :-)
Originally posted by marinakatomb
Sounds fun. Perhaps not 1 minute blitz though, i would imagine that would get a bit messy 😕
Yeah, I was thinking about that. Blitz would be pretty funny. Also, another refinement might be different amounts of liquor for different pieces. If you sac a Queen, the other player should have to down the equivalent amount of alcohol to equal nine pawns!
So that's what happened to Alekhine!!!
(1892 - 1946) Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was born to aristocracy in Moscow, Russia, and was taught chess at age 11 by his mother. Alekhine`s personality left a lot to be desired; he was devious, nervous, restless, and a heavy smoker and drinker. Though a chess genius in his own right, he held his contemporary and rival, Capablanca, in very high regards. Surprisingly, in 1927, he toppled Capablanca to gain the world championship and then studiously avoided any subsequent rematch. Alekhine`s penchant for drink caught up with him with his loss to Euwe in 1935. He then gave up drinking and smoking to regain it in 1937. During World War II he played in many tournaments in Germany and German-occupied countries. After the war he was criticized as an anti-Semite, a charge he firmly denied. He spent the last years of his life in Spain as he was endeavoring the British Chess Federation to organize a match between him and Botvinnik.
Originally posted by KORCHNOI5Didn't Alekhine die as Champion?
So that's what happened to Alekhine!!!
(1892 - 1946) Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was born to aristocracy in Moscow, Russia, and was taught chess at age 11 by his mother. Alekhine`s personality left a lot to be desired; he was devious, nervous, restless, and a heavy smoker and drinker. Though a chess genius in his own right, he held his contemporar ...[text shortened]... s he was endeavoring the British Chess Federation to organize a match between him and Botvinnik.