you might be a chessplayer if

if you have a chessboard and pieces in your bathroom

Ha

..... if your daughter says "check under my bed" and you say "King to C7"

@lemondrop said
you might be a chess player if you can quote other chess players

Nah. Even journalists can do that. What? Even Eric Schiller can do that!

You have multiple accounts on a chess site for the sole purpose of giving "thumbs-up" to your own posts. 🙂

...if you can say you make prophylactic moves with a straight face.

...if you've every had a smothered mate, and didn't go to jail for it.

...if exlax wants to sponsor you because your moves come easy.

@paul-leggett said
...if you can say you make prophylactic moves with a straight face.

😆 good one

@Anderssen

...or if you can say you've ever passed a pawn with a straight face. Try saying it with a straight face... it's...hard to get out.

LoL well I tried. 😏
You're right.

if zugzwang is in your vocabulary

....if you believe playing checkers is beneath you.

@lemondrop said
you have a copy of MCO

You have three editions of MCO, and one was so dog-eared, you had it rebound in red leather.

... your wife suggested you take a holiday with her on a yacht around the Mediterranean, but it conflicted with a chess tourney, and you chose the tourney. She goes on the cruise with a girlfriend instead, and you don't notice she's gone.

you know what “en passent” means.

When someone says the word “castle” you immediately think it is a verb, not a noun.