Hi everyone!

I’m currently trying to re-establish the Chess Society at Hull University in the UK. I was just wondering whether anyone had a funny slogan that we could put on the back of our t-shirts. All I’ve thought of is “Drunk? – Check.”

Any ideas would be warmly received.

 

There is the classic, "Chess players mate better."

Guns don't kill people, HUCS kills people!

chess players do it on the board, it's not d hands it's defeat!

Oh and my fav PLAY TO MATE FIRST!! LOL my name :-) thank you thnak you thank you no appluse just money LOL

"got wood?"

"Chess players mate better." 

 

If I were still in college, that's exactly what I would put on my shirt!

"There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player."

"A good player is always lucky"

We're all pawn stars.

"mate happens"

Put a picture of an athlete "adjusting himself" and underneath put the caption "J'adoube". Or you could put it as a word bubble like he's saying it.

"I'd let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you"

You could always have a picture of a chess board with one side having only a King and the other side a King, Queen, Rook, and possibly a pawn with the weaker side in Checkmate.  Caption "WANT TO PLAY CHESS?"

What about 'I love bashing my bishop'?

Chess: a game Hitler didn't play.

jkor wrote: Chess: a game Hitler didn't play.

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Forgive the intrusion into this thread with this non-related posting, but I hate to give up an opportunity.

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It's not so certain that Hitler wasn't a chess player. According to Tim Krabbe:

 

Perhaps Hitler has played chess. Cor Jansen sent me this quote from a little known book, Schach ohne Partner für Könner by Herbert Grasemann (1982):

 "When [Hitler] had not yet decided to devote himself to politics, and, as a twenty-year old without any plans for the future, was a drifter in Vienna, he frequented the chess cafes of that city, sitting there for entire nights. The game fascinated him so much that he feared it could, as it had so many others, totally absorb him, and take over his life. Therefore, he decided to break with it overnight."

    A footnote then explains that Hitler told about this episode of his life to his legal adviser and intimate friend Hans Frank, ordering him to be absolutely silent about it, "because the image of a chess addict did not fit with the legend of one destined by providence to change the world." Frank, Generalgouverneur of Poland during the war, and hanged at Nuremberg in 1946, was a true chess lover, playing some ill-famed consultation games with Alekhine and Bogoljubow in Warsaw in 1941. He told the story of Hitler's chess love to the problemist Ado Kraemer, who in turn, told it to Grasemann.

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Concerning the tshirt, ditch the funny saying idea and put a large, dramatic chess picture on the back, maybe even an ornate knight.

Damn.

What about just putting "1.e4" and let people wonder what it means?

Or, to borrow from the name of a blog I saw, what about "Chess Society - the home of Hardcore Pawnography"

"Chess Club: More forks than the cafeteria"

"Chess club does it at knight"