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What music is best for playing chess to?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Murray Head 'One Night In Bangkok'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link

that Fiona Apple album with 'Pawn' in the title

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link

SAW II innit!

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The Orb's Blue Room

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link

bob dylan "only a pawn in their game"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Also that Elaine Paige and thingy thingy track from that musical.

I don't know that I have ever played a full game of chess.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Gryphon's Red Queen To Gryphon Three is at least about a chess game... For some reason I've never tried listening to it while playing though.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Anything on Chess Records!

SAWII is an excellent, if obvious answer of course. Actually many of the tracks literally do conjure up images of chess in my head - especially track 6 on CD 1 (UK Version)

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link

queen

― purple patch (electricsound), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:43 (nineteen years ago) link

War-Metal like Bal Sagoth would be brilliant for chess. Maybe better for something like Warhammer 40K though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link

E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching.

you can play on the album cover too if you've got it as an LP.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Monday, 16 August 2004 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Charlie is a closet Games Workshop fan and I claim my £5.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not actually - everyone at school was into it for about six months in 1996. I think I ended up buying a couple of the figures, but only so I could paint them daft colours. I fucking hated the game though.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone at every school is into the fucking things for six months.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Extreme minimalism, like early Philip Glass (600 Lines, Contrary Motion, ... )

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Monday, 16 August 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link

"Boogie Knights"
"Kings and Queens"

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Aztec Mystic 'Knights Of The Jaguar'
Boards Of Canada 'Amo Bishop Roden'

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The Count Bishops!

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link

"Say it loud i'm black and i'm proud" (well, half the time your playing)

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I am the only one who's misread the title of this thread as "Cheesy" rather than "Chessy"?

I was going to make a reference to the band Cheese and their album Let It Brie.

Then I realised it was about chess, not cheese.

But then I got even more confused by peepee's suggestion, 'cos (still being preoccupied with thinking about cheese rather than chess at the time, of course) when I read "The Count Bishops", I immediately thought "The Lucky Bishops"; 3/4 of whom were, as everyone knows (well, everyone who lives in the Weymouth / Dorchester area and takes a keen interest in modern psychedelia anyway) originally in the band Cheese.

NB, that's Cheese, not Chess.

Shall I just insert their album cover anyway, like I was planning to do?

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000066RJQ.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Apologies for any misunderstanding, I hope I've cleared it all up now.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, I've found that Mozart's Don Giovanni works pretty well.

Henry Cow's In Praise Of Learning does not, though mainly because my chess partner wasn't quite enthusiastic about the music.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Cow > milk > cheese.

Same problem here as I had, I suspect.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills". On repeat, of course. Works for Risk - should work for chess.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't worry about the chessy/cheesy thing - it was done on purpose inspired by a recent misspelling on ILE.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

OK then, I won't. I shall gleefully carry on in a strange little cheese-based world of my own, while everyone else is trying to have serious conversations about chess.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000070JF.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

They need to invent cheesy chess and chessy cheese.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link

You could carve chess pieces out of cheese: a pale cheese like Cheddar for the white pieces and something like Red Leicester for the black ones; and make a chess board by cutting up 2 different types of cheese slice and arranging them in alternate colums and rows!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you get to eat any pieces you capture?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

you could only really eat pawns, in case they converted any of the past pawns into a piece.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't you just know some complete and uter blithering imbecile is going to misread that last post as saying prawns, then try to make some feeble, pathetic joke about it?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

soundtrack to the Fischer King

― robbie nathalie lumsden, Monday, 16 August 2004 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

.... or something by Fischer Z perhaps?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link

is that you nathalie bomba?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:27 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Windmills of Your Mind". Then afterwards you could shag Faye Dunaway.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 16 August 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

And there I ws thinking it was a typo for Chessie.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf000/f048/f0488818kv3.jpg

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.skgiessen.de/movies/promis/sting1.jpg

http://www.skgiessen.de/movies/promis/sting2.jpg

anything by this guy (I personally vote for "Wrapped Around Your Finger")

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that Sting?

You sure don't get much cheesier than that.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Red Queen to Gryphon Three is GREAT to play chess to.

I nominate Steely Dan's Dirty Work: "Like a castle in a corner in a medeival game, I foresee terrible trouble, but I stay here just the same..."

― briania (briania), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Other musicians known to be top players: Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Anthony Braxton.

― briania (briania), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, "Your Move"
Bob Dylan, "Only A Pawn In Their Game"
Sex Pistols, "God Save The Queen"

and for my obligatory MX-80 Sound reference,
"Theme From Checkmate"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

braxton vs dylan in chess championship - i would actually pay like $200 to sit front row at this. i dont even know why. it would just rule.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, you could try to spot the parallels between their playing styles and their musical inclinations. Who would be the aggressor?

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.r-evolution.it/g/g4/g-004-1.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Falkbeer Gambit ain't nuttin' ta fuck with!

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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