Funny Chess Poems

Complications why?
Let's make it a bit simple,
Don't think a lot!
Pop that brainstorming pimple!
I am waiting for you!
To play the next move!
Don't try things new!
I am...

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Playing a game on a checkered board 
No need for armor and sword 
Only a decisive mind 
Thoughtful strategy and enough time 
Concentrating with a...

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The heart knows to move
when it's time to play
When the move's for another
in a heart who'll slay

That the game's for another
in a love we'll say
When...

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Shogi
me?
I can barely play Go Fish

Old Maid is well over my head
Shogi?
I think not

Shogi: Japanese chess
where you get to use your
opponent’s captured army...

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The lobster smiled at Carlsen on the other side of the table,
never played one before, appropriate his name was Klawvostic,
they say that Carlsen waits for...

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He's my friend from Prague
Who I play chess with every 
lunchtime,
He's my Czech mate....

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On our first date 
Sitting at home 
By the pool 
She suggested a game of strip chess 
I told her 
I didn’t know how to...

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Played chess at the park
Giant board made on the grass
Four foot tall pieces
Played with a psychiatrist
Every move a stalemate



Barbara Gorelick
For the Dream contest...
I don't even...

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The white and black squares with bishops and knights
Whether English or French, just can't get right
My pieces can't stand his defence
There’s King and Queen, but...

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