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Hi! So ya, yet another world first ... Chess Fortune Cookies!
Society of Chess Aficionados is proud to sponsor Banff Open this year (our 2nd year of sponsorship). Along with donating to the prize fund ($150.00) we are also donating to their Wine & Cheese party! How awesome is that!?! The Chess Fortune Cookies are custom made. Some of the Chess Fortune Cookies will be dipped in white chocolate and some in black chocolate. I've requested sprinkles of white and black squares and/or chess piece icons, but I won't know until tomorrow if those sprinkles are able to be sourced. Next week I receive some samples!
Only one slight tiny itty-bitty problem ... I have yet to come up with at least 20 different fortunes. So far I have one, here it is...
May the fork be with you.
I only need 19 more!
Do you have any chess sayings that you would like to see as a fortune inside a Chess Fortune Cookie???
Enjoy a knight out!
Think 'b4' you move....
Be cool - Rook 'n roll!
Be a stud - a Castlenova:)
Get board - play chess!
Don't be a cow-ward....mooo've!
Don't tempt fate, just check...mate:)
Play chess - it's a checkered career
Avoid pins - you'll come under a'tack!
Don't give blank echecs - you'll be fork losed
Enjoy a knight out!
Think 'b4' you move....
Be cool - Rook 'n roll!
Be a stud - a Castlenova:)
Get board - play chess!
Don't be a cow-ward....mooo've!
Don't tempt fate, just check...mate:)
Play chess - it's a checkered career
Avoid pins - you'll come under a'tack!
Don't give blank echecs - you'll be fork losed
You tend to see things in terms of black and white.
Even a simple pawn can become royalty.
A move with no thought is one that loses.
Memorization without understanding is meaningless.
Joy comes not from winning but from playing.
1. In your next game you will receive a pleasant surprise.
2. Your chess games will be filled with magical moments.
3. You will embark into positions that you have never seen before, and come out rewarded.
4. Today a pawn is only a pawn, but tomorrow it may be a Queen.
5. If you don't like your positions, look for a new opening.
6. You don't always need to find the best move, just a winning move.
7. When you enjoy being immersed in a complicated position, don't lose on time.
8. Let your imagination wander, on your opponent's time.
9. You learn from your mistakes, and you will learn alot today.
10. Your opponents will help you discover your weaknesses and display your strengths.
11. You will place all your pieces on the best squares.
12. All your moves can be great, except for the last one.
13. When your opponent's threats are fake, you can make your position great again.
Last edited by Erik Malmsten; Saturday, 23rd September, 2017, 04:18 PM.
Reason: Typo
Some crazier ones:
1. It is easier to break fortune cookie than pawn structure.
2. 1. e4 e6 This is a French fortune cookie.
3. Ding Liren will become the World Chess Champion. (This is a Chinese fortune cookie.)
4. You would be good at Xiangqi.
5. Touch move: touch cookie, must eat.
6. FIDE rule: no reading fortune cookie during game.
1) Plastic chessmen are not weighted with lead but with pure gold. Do you have a hacksaw?
2) The 115th country Nigel Short plays chess in will be your den
3) A little known fact that will allow you to win a game of pub trivia: Bobby Fischer never actually began a game with 1. e4
4) The reason Emanuel Lasker won so many games was because he used to hide a rook in his mustache and would drop it onto the board when his opponent wasn’t looking
5) Our German-English Chess Dictionary: Donner = thunder, Springer = Knight and there isn’t enough room on this small slip of paper to translate Bauernumwandlungsschachaufgaben
You tend to see things in terms of black and white.
Even a simple pawn can become royalty.
A move with no thought is one that loses.
Memorization without understanding is meaningless.
Joy comes not from winning but from playing.
I'll be send out thank you boxes of Chess Fortune Cookies to those folks who I use their suggestions!! When the list is complete I'll post it here and then y'all can PM your vitals ...thanks again!
About the boxes...
The boxes are in the form of Chinese take-out boxes ...natch! I ordered some in black & some in white :)
Thanks Neil. The Banff Open greatly appreciates your generous sponsorship from the Society of Chess Aficionados for the second year in a row. In addition to the $150 and the creative fortune cookies, thank you also for the great logo you supplied us.
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