What does a seasoned chess player say when he refuses a plate of prawns?
"I'll passant."
What was said when Carlsen drew with Kasparov?
"That's another brand of beer which has become famous."
I didn`t make these up but found them in a book. Hope you like them!
A chess master died - after a few days, a friend of his heard a voice; it was him!
"What's it like, where you are now," he asked.
"What do you want to hear first, the good news or the bad news."
"Tell me the good news first."
"Well, it's really heaven here. There are tournaments and blitz sessions going on all the time and Morphy, Alekhine, Lasker, Tal, Capablanca, Botvinnik, they're all here, and you can play them."
"Fantastic!" the friend said, "and what is the bad news?"
"You have Black against Capablanca on Saturday."
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In a park people come across a man playing chess against a dog. They are astonished and say:
"What a clever dog!"
But the man protests:
"No, no, he isn't that clever. I'm leading by three games to one!"
So to start off:
Why is a black knight better than a white knight?
Because white knights only exist in the arctic!