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On my blog I have a lot of funny stories so I only will give 2 which were liked a lot.
https://schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2022/01/het-konijn.html
https://schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2023/03/familieschaak-deel-4.html
Oh and very related to the topic is: What is fun at chess? I tried to answer that last year in https://schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2024/06/wat-is-leuk-aan-het-schaken.html
The funny thing is that yesterday I literally watched the same short on youtube that was on the title page!
@theScot said in #1:
> Comments on adjva4.dpdns.org/@/thescot/blog/the-funny-side-of-chess/0suwGLlF
the pic on the title was from the funniest vid. I think it was Paweł Teclaf who fell off his chair lol
lol
@mvhk said in #2:
> On my blog I have a lot of funny stories so I only will give 2 which were liked a lot.
>
> schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2022/01/het-konijn.html
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> schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2023/03/familieschaak-deel-4.html
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> Oh and very related to the topic is: What is fun at chess? I tried to answer that last year in schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2024/06/wat-is-leuk-aan-het-schaken.html
Love the rabbit story!
I received yesterday a mail about a new book: https://www.newinchess.com/did-you-come-here-to-play-chess-or-to-have-fun
He is an American National Master whom wrote a book about 15 years blogging in which fun was an important ingredient.
I am thinking to buy the book although I know already many/ most stories. I was very recently in the center of a discussion (podcast) about good blogging so that new book could help me.
GM Fridrik Olafsson from the Bled Island Church Story you told recently died a few days before you published this blog, on April 4th, 2025.
Jan 26, 1935 - Apr 4, 2025 (age 90)
Also, in the tournament where you and your friend got paired up, you could've just gone for a pre-arranged draw (1. e4 e5 2. Ke2 Ke7 3. Ke1 Ke8...)
Or here's a prearranged draw for you!
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. c3 d5 7. exd5 Nxd5 8. Nbd2 Nb6 9. Bb5 f6?! 10. a4!? a6 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. b4 Bd6 13. Qb3+?! Kh8 14. d4 exd4 15. Nxd4 a5?! 16. bxa5 Rxa5 17. Ne4 Ba6 18. Nxc6! Rh5!! 19. Bf4!! Bxf4!! 20. Nxd8! Bxh2+! 21. Kh1 Bf4+ 22. Kg1 Bh2+ 23. Kh1 Bf4+ 24. Kg1 Bh2+
That picture of Najdorf is so creepy, I swear I saw him in my nightmares.
The “Sam Loyd with an awesome moustache” got me so hard I was dying on the floor