A not-so-serious look at the game of chess

Updated On: 12 November, 2013 04:58 PM IST | | Hemal Ashar

All eyes are on Chennai as Norway's Magnus Carlsen challenges India's Viswanathan Anand for the World Championship of Chess. Here, we commit sacrilege in the eyes of the oh-so-solemn chess follower and wonder why chess, the game of the serious 64 squares, cannot give you a little chuckle

A not-so-serious look at the game of chess

Just because chess is such a serious pursuit does not mean one cannot get a little trivial around the game. With India’s Viswanathan Anand and Norway’s Magnus Carlsen ensuring all eyes on Chennai as they battle it out for the World Chess Championship, here is some inexplicable, ridiculous tripe about the game and its players. Certainly not worth the cerebral pedestal that the game is put on. After all, who, with any kind of brain writes this kind of stuff? Maybe, somebody with a single digit IQ, like this columnist, perhaps, who is wondering…

Cartoon/ Amit Bandre