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JonathanB Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 449 Location: London Joined: 11/17/07 Gender:	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #7 - 03/29/09 at 20:10:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	There's a chess venue in North London near Euston ... I think Middlesex County side plays there ... that has (or had) a cat that wanders around as if s/he owns the place. It's a room above a pub. The cat was there several times when I visited but I haven't been there for a year or two.

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JonathanB Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 449 Location: London Joined: 11/17/07 Gender:	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #6 - 03/29/09 at 20:08:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	TN wrote on 03/29/09 at 03:55:13: I have seen several photos of chess-playing monkeys at Gibraltar, in New In Chess Magazines and on ChessBase. Their favourite opening is the Monkey's Bum (1.e4 g6 2.Bc4 Bg7 3.Qf3 e6 4.d4). The name allegedly comes from someone who, when confronted with this move, said 'If it works, then I'm a monkey's bum!'. No allegedly ... that's what happened. Former members of Streatham & Brixton Chess Club I believe.

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J-dog Senior Member Offline Posts: 283 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Joined: 11/15/05 Gender:	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #5 - 03/29/09 at 05:56:41	Post Tools	Print Post
	ok that settles it: I'm wearing a gorilla suit to my next tournament, and I'll make sure I smell of strong cologne too.


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TN God Member Offline Posts: 3420 Joined: 11/07/08 Gender:	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #4 - 03/29/09 at 03:55:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have seen several photos of chess-playing monkeys at Gibraltar, in New In Chess Magazines and on ChessBase. Their favourite opening is the Monkey's Bum (1.e4 g6 2.Bc4 Bg7 3.Qf3 e6 4.d4). The name allegedly comes from someone who, when confronted with this move, said 'If it works, then I'm a monkey's bum!'.

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The Hand Junior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 55 Joined: 01/02/09	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #3 - 03/28/09 at 22:38:28	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think most players bring crabs.


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Miki Junior Member Offline Posts: 55 Joined: 11/10/08	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #2 - 03/28/09 at 20:10:18	Post Tools	Print Post
	Yep, I brought a fish* once. *Or in Russian Rybka


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JEH God Member Offline "Football is like Chess, only without the dice." Posts: 1456 Location: Reading Joined: 09/22/05 Gender:	Re: Animals at the chess board. Reply #1 - 03/28/09 at 19:24:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	I think there's a monkey that comes to my chessboard, although it only seems to appear when I'm not at the table. When I play through my games, there always seem to be some of my moves that could only have been played by a monkey

	Those who want to go by my perverse footsteps play such pawn structure with fuzzy atypical still strategic orientations Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middlegame with you
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J-dog Senior Member Offline Posts: 283 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Joined: 11/15/05 Gender:	Animals at the chess board. 03/27/09 at 20:49:03	Post Tools	Print Post
	I read about Alekhine having a cat sitting around his neck or on his shoulder during a game and I was wondering if anyone ever brought a pet to their game...like a parrot or a ferret or their worm collection or something crazy.


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