leoeo2
Chess rating: 1437
Australia
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|  1/30/2010 8:14:13 AM | edited:1/30/2010 8:16:22 AM | MsgID: 12641207
Originally posted by: "Raudales"
Well, after all, Kasparov did not have it to bad. . .
In the Middle Ages kings and nobility had chess boards and pieces quite heavy, made of gold, silver and precious gems. A King or rook could have a height close to a foot in length. It is said that Charlemagne had a board of gold and silver, and the borders were inlaid with rubies, emeralds and sapphires weighing about five pounds.
They serve, occasionally, as useful weapons.
The following is taken from the book “The Adventure of Chess”, Edward Lasker, Dover Publication Inc, 1959.
<>In the Liddell´s romance (Charlemagne cycle) “Chessmen”” a pertinent story is quoted which concerns Berthelot, a nephew of Charlemagne. Berthelot calls on Renaud de Montauban to play chess. He quarrels with him and hits him in the face, whereupon Renaud takes up the chessboard of “massy gold” and kills Berthelot.
According to the same story, Renaud de Monauban was involved in another affair in which chess equipment served as an instrument of death. He held Richard, Duke of Normandy, prisoner and sent his men to fetch him to the scaffold. They found him playing chess with Renaud´s son Yvonet and try to lay hands on him when he refused to leave the game to be hanged. He then killed one with his Queen, one with a Rook and a third with a Bishop. The rest fled, and the duke calmly invited Yvonet to finish the game.<>
Perhaps he did not kill three of them. Let´s say only one. But the story might be quite true.
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Now, THAT'S what I call playing to the end!
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subinde_vinco
Chess rating: 1491
United States
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| 1/28/2010 8:03:32 PM | MsgID: 12634692
An English legal document from around 1215 chronicles a dispute over a chess game between "two gentlemen of Essex," one of whom "struck the other in the stomach with a knife so that he died."
Two fictional examples of "death by chess:"
The medieval French tale "Ogier le Danois" contains an anecdote in which Charlemagne's son clubs Ogier's son to death with a chessboard after losing a close game.
Chrétien de Troye's romance "Perceval" tells the story of how King Arthur's nephew Gawain fought off a besieging army by using a chessboard as a shield and the pieces as projectiles that he launched against the attacking troops.
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Raudales
Chess rating: 1404
Venezuela
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| 1/28/2010 7:40:31 PM | MsgID: 12634567
Well, after all, Kasparov did not have it to bad. . .
In the Middle Ages kings and nobility had chess boards and pieces quite heavy, made of gold, silver and precious gems. A King or rook could have a height close to a foot in length. It is said that Charlemagne had a board of gold and silver, and the borders were inlaid with rubies, emeralds and sapphires weighing about five pounds.
They serve, occasionally, as useful weapons.
The following is taken from the book “The Adventure of Chess”, Edward Lasker, Dover Publication Inc, 1959.
<>In the Liddell´s romance (Charlemagne cycle) “Chessmen”” a pertinent story is quoted which concerns Berthelot, a nephew of Charlemagne. Berthelot calls on Renaud de Montauban to play chess. He quarrels with him and hits him in the face, whereupon Renaud takes up the chessboard of “massy gold” and kills Berthelot.
According to the same story, Renaud de Monauban was involved in another affair in which chess equipment served as an instrument of death. He held Richard, Duke of Normandy, prisoner and sent his men to fetch him to the scaffold. They found him playing chess with Renaud´s son Yvonet and try to lay hands on him when he refused to leave the game to be hanged. He then killed one with his Queen, one with a Rook and a third with a Bishop. The rest fled, and the duke calmly invited Yvonet to finish the game.<>
Perhaps he did not kill three of them. Let´s say only one. But the story might be quite true.
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Papakudos
Chess rating: 1640
United States
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| 1/28/2010 12:53:10 PM | MsgID: 12632921
Kasparov hit over head with chessboard
by Andy on April 17, 2005
Yes, you read the title right. Kasparov was busy signing chessboards for fans – like you do when you’re a former world chess chamption – when one of them turned around and bashed him on the head. Kasparov’s attacker is thought to have been affiliated with the pro-Putin youth group Nashi.
Fortunately for Kasparov his wounds weren’t serious, and he was able to go on with his day. Chessbase, always first with the news, has an exclusive interview:
It was quite surprising and shocking. It happened
so fast that nobody could intervene. I signed the chessboard for a "fan"
and then turned away to talk to another person. He was telling me about his
town, and I was looking at a local paper he showed me. Anyway, I had turned
my head and this guy simply attacked me.
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leoeo2
Chess rating: 1437
Australia
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| 1/28/2010 7:05:01 AM | edited:1/28/2010 8:52:07 AM | MsgID: 12632142
Originally posted by: "LarryN"
I wish I could explain that one! It happenened to me in a OTB tournament!
In 1 of my games a few years ago at the World Open I forked my opponents queen & a rook. Very early in the game. He got up, walked away from the table & never came back. |
I am aware that respected players in the past have resorted to violent temper tantrums. When I went looking unsuccessfully for examples, I did, however, come across this gem from Sydney's Sydney Morning Herald April 18 2005:
Chess legend Kasparov hit over head with board April 18, 2005
Kasparov, the world's former No.1 chess player who quit the professional game last month to focus on politics, has said he has been hit over the head with a chessboard in what appears to have been a politically motivated attack.
Kasparov was not injured when he was hit with the chessboard on Friday after signing it for a young man at an event in Moscow.
A spokeswoman for Kasparov, Marina Litvinovich, said the assailant told the chess champion: "I admired you as a chess player, but you gave that up for politics."
She said the unidentified attacker - who did not reveal his political allegiance - had tried to hit Kasparov a second time but was hauled away by security guards.
"It was a fairly nasty incident, it was not very pleasant psychologically," Kasparov told the private NTV television. "Yesterday, I was just about able to muster up enough humour to joke darkly that, luckily in the Soviet Union, chess and not baseball was popular."
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