One of the things chess is missing: good nicknames.
Boxing has used nicknames forever and it makes for great theater and stories read so much better with nicknames. All positive aggressive macho (for the guys) nicknames. A lot of color would be added to the game if we reported using them.
For instance the current players in the Reuben's Landey:
Ben "Bull Dozer" Goldberg
Simon "Nuculur" Warfield
Cary "Ticking Still Ticking Timebomb" Theil
Alex "the Almighty" Slive
Philip "Go" Nutzman
Jason "Un" Rihel
"Wiley" Kyle Clayton
Lior "The Taimer" Rozhansky
Kenny "The Killer" Newman
Zaroug "So Long" Jaleel
Ed "AX man" Astrachan
Jon "Dr Jon" Lee
Adam "the Assassin" Yedidia
Directed by: Robert "Winning Chances" Oresick and backed up by Bernado "the Blessed" Iglesias
As a perk of a kind, we should probably have a BCF nicknaming committee that bestows nicknames following a player's 5th tournament at the BCF as a member. And we won't use the Animal House lottery system either.
Please Comment. Be nice."Psycho" Mike Griffin 07/15/2008
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speaking of nicknames, Matt can you link to your boston blitz nicknames?
example: Larry "born again" Christiansen, Vadim "the dream", Klasik Krasik etc...
Ah yes... here it is... From Nov. of 2006!
http://globularchess.blogspot.com/2006/11/uscl-nicknames.html
-Matt
USCL Nicknames
In the tradition of sportscaster Chris Berman's nicknames for baseball players, here are some of mine for USCL players:
- Larry "Born Again" Christiansen
- Charles "In Charge" Riordan
- Ilya "Classic" Krasik
- Jenn/Michael/Greg Shahade "They Fall"
- Josh "Live" Friedel "or Die"
- Vadim "The Dream" Martirosov
- Jan "Close to the" Ehlvest
- Eugene "At Your Own" Perelshteyn
- Pawel "No One Else to" Blehm
- Irina "Orange" Krush
- Matt "Your Mission Mr." Phelps
posted by Globular at 1:05 PM
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Also, two integral pieces from 2007
Chrissy the BEAR and
Denis the Bumble Bee.
Ilya Krasik 07.21.08 - 3:18 pm #
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