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you might be a chessplayer if

you might be a chessplayer if

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if you describe yourself as a "positional player" with a straight face.

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...you have vinyl chess boards in multiple colors.

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...you have multiple chess sets in a variety of shapes, patterns, sizes, and materials.

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.... when your morning coffee chess extends to 2 cups because your laughing at this thread

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😆

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@lemondrop

-you think people are idiots when you mention names such as Capablanca, Leko, Carlsen, Giri, Ding, Kasparov, Tal and they don't know who you're talking about.

- you fill with the urge to commit bodily harm when you mention you play tournament chess to a casual acquaintance, and they look at you like you're a different species, and quickly change the subject.

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@lemondrop said
you don't call a knight a horse
- you know the auto-excuse coming from the mouths of non chess players when they set up the pieces for a casual game is always going to be: "I haven't played in a long time" and your reaction is normally a silent wish that they leave your solar system...now!

- you know you married the right woman when she says things like: "I like that you play chess, smart people play chess"

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. . . the name "Nigel Short" does not suggest to you an autistic midget.

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. . . someone at a table near you in a restaurant attempts to pronounce "Bogoljubov" and you do not perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on him.

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You can sack your bits and feel pleased about it.

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You might be a chess player when you realise the person you are talking to has finished talking and is waiting for a reply but you've been thinking about that game you finished the other day and haven't heard a word.

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You get frustrated whenever there's a brief chess scene in a film/tv show, you can't see the board properly and there's always a checkmate at the end of it.
Also when the word "opening " means something more to you than a gap in a fence.

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. . . if you pat your partner on the head after you make a move.

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you don't believe pawn grabbers belong in jail

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You vacation on a pawn island