Today’s Terrible Ideas (for FREE!)

by kevinspraggettonchess · Published November 8, 2020 · Updated November 9, 2020

How are you today? In the spirit of having some light fun toying around with the absurd and not so absurd, I present a collection of potpourri. Enjoy!

Please Don’t Tell Dvorkovich!

BREATHLESS CHESS

The rules are simple! When it is your move you have to hold your breath until you actually make a move. When your move is completed, then you can breath, while the opponent must then hold his breath until he completes his move. And so on.

Victory goes to the player who, of course, delivers mate first. Just like in classic chess! The best thing of all, you don’t need to use chess clocks!

If any player ‘illegally’ breaths while he is on the move, the arbiter will automatically award the game to his opponent.
If any player passes out in the course of play, he automatically loses.
If both players fall unconscious during play, the game is declared a stalemate!

Khel Khallas

I kid you not! LINK Sex, violence and murder. You know that a film is a real loser from the gutter when it is necessary to so exclusively resort to chess imagery in the publicity campaign. Even Dvorkovich could not drag chess’ image lower than this if he tried.

This Hindi film is supposed to be a ‘romantic thriller’ directed by Aman Khan, starring superstars Yogita Rathore and Mohit Arora in the lead roles. Cast: Mohit Arora, Yogita Rathore Crew: Aman Khan (Director), Manu Jhala (Director of Photography), Monty Sharma (Music Director)

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Thoughts on Reversed Sexism…

I found this explanation on a tumblr website. (Tip: go to tumblr whenever you seek non-pornish inspiration) At first it seems plausible, but then when I thought about it more, it started to lose its lustre.

In particular: does something sexist all of a sudden become non-sexist just because there exists a money-making angle associated with it? If that were the case, then our world would not have any sexism at all. But it does…and LOTS of it. (And lots of money being made because of sexism!)

So, as far as this tumblr rationalization goes…