Stuff from the world of sports that Irritates the Crap Outta Me

[JackStraw]

The overuse of the phrase " It's like a chess game out there " ......... It's even crept into other areas of language now........ I always wonder how many of these people that use the phrase actually play chess ??

Paul Morhy developed this problem when he was 5 yrs old.........

It's White to move , and Mate in 2 ........

[wufan]

The overuse of the phrase " It's like a chess game out there " ......... It's even crept into other areas of language now........ I always wonder how many of these people that use the phrase actually play chess ??

Paul Morhy developed this problem when he was 5 yrs old.........

It's White to move , and Mate in 2 ........

Rook to A6?

[Signman]

Paul Savage, Brent Musburger, Tim McCarver, Jim Rome, Steven A. Smith, Doug Goatlube, Will Kunkel

Insufferable OU sports fans. Which really means OU football fans because in their minds there are only 3 sports seasons: recruiting season, football season, Spring football. I now spend waaaaaay too much time around these people.

BTW, did you know when an OU football fan travels to the OU-Texas game, the average IQ of both states goes up.

Should be four seasons because you left out lingerie football.

[Signman]

Rook to A6?

Rook to A6 looks right.

[capnkirk]

Rook to A6 looks right.

Your bishop is exposed...... :)

[WuDrWu]

Rook to A6 looks right.

Ra6!

It might be

Ra6!!

I'm not sure.

[Husker4Shockers]

Not nearly enough, IMHO.

Meaning I don't in fact know enough about this? Or did you just prove my point...

[ShockerPrez]

Your bishop is exposed...... :)

That's what she said.

[ShockBand]

The overuse of the phrase " It's like a chess game out there " ......... It's even crept into other areas of language now........ I always wonder how many of these people that use the phrase actually play chess ??

Paul Morhy developed this problem when he was 5 yrs old.........

It's White to move , and Mate in 2 ........

I would need my chess sensei @HockeyShock: to confirm, but Rook to A6 appears correct. If black captures the rook with the pawn, white pushes the pawn up for checkmate. If black tries to stall by bringing out the bishop, white captures the pawn at A7 with the rook for checkmate.

[molly jabali]

When sports media spews stats that are incomplete or entirely misleading. For example:

"This .300 hitter is hitting 400 over his last 4 games!" -- So he has 1-2 more hits than normal? great....

"The Seahawks are 0-2, 0-2 teams only make the playoffs 12% of the time" -- if the Seahawks don't make the playoffs it won't be because they lost a divisional road game and a game at Lambeau field... calm down.

"Nick Saban wins revenge games at a 82% rate at Alabama!" -- well he wins all games at a ~83% rate at Alabama sooo 82% isn't all that surprising...

Got to admit, me me chuckle...so true.

[ShockBand]

When sports media spews stats that are incomplete or entirely misleading. For example:

"This .300 hitter is hitting 400 over his last 4 games!" -- So he has 1-2 more hits than normal? great....

"The Seahawks are 0-2, 0-2 teams only make the playoffs 12% of the time" -- if the Seahawks don't make the playoffs it won't be because they lost a divisional road game and a game at Lambeau field... calm down.

"Nick Saban wins revenge games at a 82% rate at Alabama!" -- well he wins all games at a ~83% rate at Alabama sooo 82% isn't all that surprising...

Which is like when something goes from a 1 in 1000 chance to 3 in 1000, but the statement is "your risk is tripled!"

[HockeyShock]

I would need my chess sensei @HockeyShock: to confirm, but Rook to A6 appears correct. If black captures the rook with the pawn, white pushes the pawn up for checkmate. If black tries to stall by bringing out the bishop, white captures the pawn at A7 with the rook for checkmate.

One hundred percent correct! One of my favorite mate-in-2 puzzles.

[RoyalShock]

Your bishop is exposed...... :)

That's ok, I'm not Catholic!

[pogo]

Your bishop is exposed...... :)

I hate it when that happens.

[ShockTalk]

I hate it when that happens.

Sure ya do. :rolleyes-new: