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jaylectricity		2012-05-07 09:53:28 PM

Well it is> the home of the king of beers.

notmtwain		2012-05-07 09:55:47 PM

Wrong, subby. You have it bassackwards. St. Louis has checkmated the rest of the country, not the other way around.

// Not from St. Louis

jaylectricity		2012-05-07 10:01:31 PM

Oops...screwed that up. Oh well.

relaxitsjustme		2012-05-07 10:04:46 PM

One town's very like another when your head's down over your pieces, brother

Vivianne		2012-05-08 01:53:59 AM

relaxitsjustme: One town's very like another when your head's down over your pieces, brother

It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity when you're looking at the board - not looking at the city.

farkingismybusiness		2012-05-08 01:55:54 AM

St. Louis only pawn... in game of life.

Point02GPA		2012-05-08 01:56:01 AM

Two guys set down to play a game of chess. One says "hey, do you want to make this interesting?" The other guy says "yes". So they got up and took a walk.

Notabunny		2012-05-08 01:57:54 AM

Point02GPA: One says "hey, do you want to make this interesting?"

Rook jumps Queen!

otto the bull		2012-05-08 01:58:31 AM

St. Louis already got pawned by the Kings a couple days ago.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom		2012-05-08 01:59:47 AM

The World Chess Hall of Fame is in St. Louis? Isn't that like having the Elvis Commemorative Plate Museum in Florence, IT?

TheOtherMisterP		2012-05-08 02:00:13 AM

Doesn't 14.5 feet sound kind of small for the "world's largest chess piece?" I would think a college chess club could make a 15-foot piece over a drunken weekend.

I was expecting a 30 or 40-footer. Leaving disappointed.

Mock26		2012-05-08 02:00:38 AM

Can you play chess with it? If not then it should not be considered the largest chess piece in the world.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom		2012-05-08 02:06:39 AM

TheOtherMisterP: Doesn't 14.5 feet sound kind of small for the "world's largest chess piece?" I would think a college chess club could make a 15-foot piece over a drunken weekend.

I was expecting a 30 or 40-footer. Leaving disappointed.

Pretty sure there's a local pawn shop around here with one out front that's at least 20'.

Pointy Tail of Satan		2012-05-08 02:06:57 AM

No doubt soon to be burned down by some anti-monarchist Tea Baggers.

TomD9938		2012-05-08 02:08:25 AM

Big ol' rook.

T-Bone42		2012-05-08 02:12:52 AM

FTFA: "It's 14.5 feet high, weighs 2,280 pounds and is yet another example of the seemingly unlimited financial resources to make St. Louis the country's chess capital."

Once again, the mysterious cabal that is Big Chess leaves its mark on an unsuspecting world.

trappedspirit		2012-05-08 02:13:40 AM

There is actually a competition about this? And we evolved this way??

Hector Remarkable		2012-05-08 02:14:02 AM

I just hope it's not some Trojan chess piece, filled with nerds that will jump out at night and take over the city.

Huck And Molly Ziegler		2012-05-08 02:17:07 AM

Would a geometrician / chess fiend please be so kind as to calculate and reveal the size of the squares and the board that a piece of this size would be found on, were it a standard-sized playable piece?? thanks ...

Reynard		2012-05-08 02:21:35 AM

Notabunny		2012-05-08 02:22:19 AM

Hector Remarkable: I just hope it's not some Trojan chess piece, filled with nerds that will jump out at night and take over the city.

Tomorrow morning the City will awaken to the horror of crop circles mowed in their municipal parks, and the hedges around City hall neatly trimmed into cryptic mathematic topiaries.

fusillade762		2012-05-08 02:30:04 AM

BolloxReader		2012-05-08 02:30:39 AM

I sense a troubling "chess piece gap." Someone will have to remedy this. Perhaps with a butter sculpture.

aerojockey		2012-05-08 02:34:34 AM

Appropriate video (not a rickroll)

Diagonal		2012-05-08 02:41:19 AM

One word:

Klaes Oldenburg.

Don't Troll Me Bro!		2012-05-08 02:58:48 AM

thanks to R. G. Ross Construction, a local company that formed the piece in a secret location in the Gravois Bluffs shopping center

Farkin' secret locations, how do they work?

ThighsofGlory		2012-05-08 03:08:34 AM

There go I, but for my face.

T-Servo		2012-05-08 03:26:01 AM

World's largest and they have to go with a phallic piece?

/was hoping for a white knight to use in the politics tab

Mock26		2012-05-08 03:37:32 AM

I have never been to St. Louis, but years ago I spent one night in Bangkok.

signaljammer		2012-05-08 04:28:52 AM

Silly, but far less offensive than the Bald Knob Cross.

//K Oldenburg is two words

//three way plug,
//three way plug!!

//The Sovs gotta have an answer for this

slotz		2012-05-08 05:07:05 AM

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: TheOtherMisterP: Doesn't 14.5 feet sound kind of small for the "world's largest chess piece?" I would think a college chess club could make a 15-foot piece over a drunken weekend.

I was expecting a 30 or 40-footer. Leaving disappointed.

Pretty sure there's a local pawn shop around here with one out front that's at least 20'.

Ha ha! I see what you did there.

Hacker_X		2012-05-08 05:08:11 AM

Mock26: I have never been to St. Louis, but years ago I spent one night in Bangkok.

I for one see what you did there. I've never been to Bangkok but I have logged into Bangkok Nights.

zez		2012-05-08 05:39:41 AM

I guess since after we lost the Bowling Hall of Fame and all we had left was the Dog Museum they needed to do something here.

Recoil Therapy		2012-05-08 06:04:06 AM

14.5ft? That's all? You know, if you had a spare few hundred dollars & a desire to get into the Guiness Book that wouldn't be all that hard to beat.

/what you'd do with a 15' tall chess piece after though is up in the air
//no local chess clubs to donate it to. At least none in their own permanent building

lack of warmth		2012-05-08 06:39:53 AM

St. Louis is pawn in the game of life.

Don't shoot St. Louis, it will only make it angry.

Diagonal		2012-05-08 07:15:11 AM

signaljammer: Silly, but far less offensive than the Bald Knob Cross.

//K Oldenburg is two words

CPT obvious is obvious.

knight_on_the_rail		2012-05-08 07:24:26 AM

i"d have thunk the largest piece would be in the republic of kalmykia, they were supposed to have buildings in the shape of chess pieces... i guess when you're a crazy dictator things don't always go the way you planned them though...

/go anand

HumbertoEcho		2012-05-08 07:50:01 AM

Amazing they don't mention how Webster University just became the new home of the Texas University Chess Team...

http://fox2now.com/2012/04/10/national-champion-chess-team-moves-to-w e bster-university/

And they didn't even mention its anchor, Grand Master Susan Polgar, one of the three brilliant Polgar sisters....

http://www.websterchess.blogspot.com/

notmtwain		2012-05-08 07:57:56 AM

The US Championship starts this week in St. Louis. I'll be following the play by play at the Internet Chess Club.

www.chessclub.com

knight_on_the_rail		2012-05-08 07:59:23 AM

HumbertoEcho: Amazing they don't mention how Webster University just became the new home of the Texas University Chess Team...

http://fox2now.com/2012/04/10/national-champion-chess-team-moves-to-w e bster-university/

And they didn't even mention its anchor, Grand Master Susan Polgar, one of the three brilliant Polgar sisters....

there's only 1 "brilliant" polgar sister, hard to believe judit's still top 40 when she doesn't seem to do anything of note anymore

drewbob		2012-05-08 08:19:56 AM

/hot like air

yequalsy		2012-05-08 08:27:23 AM

So the other day I was at a chess tournament and afterwards we all went out to the hotel lobby to talk about the day. I guess we were pretty exacted in a nerdy kind of way because eventually the hotel manager asked us to disperse.

"Why I asked, we're just talking about today's tournament?"

He replied. "Because I can't stand chess nuts boasting in a open foyer."

/d4 Nf6

Alphax		2012-05-08 08:41:43 AM

Where's that? (examines the map closer) A few blocks north of Barnes hospital. Huge place. Nice old neighborhoods around there.

WelldeadLink		2012-05-08 08:42:39 AM

The 14.5-foot piece was dedicated earlier in the morning. But by late afternoon had become bored, and went to the tavern for margaritas and darts.

BlueDemon		2012-05-08 08:46:14 AM

Zeke and Cletus, the official mascots of St. Louis, will be confused by this.

Robo Beat		2012-05-08 08:54:21 AM

Today I learned that the epicenter of the global chess community is apparently in St. Louis.

I would have figured it to be somewhere in Russia, or maybe NYC, but evidently not.

Zeus is a Megalomaniac		2012-05-08 09:00:15 AM

yequalsy:

I hate you for making me laugh.

Harry Freakstorm		2012-05-08 09:06:04 AM

We're all just pawns in St. Louis' evil game of checkers.

Waiting for the episode where the visit St. Louis, sans Grandpa of course, go to the Bowling Hall of Fame and Homer actually refuses to eat St. Louis style pizza.

Mid_mo_mad_man		2012-05-08 09:44:14 AM

jaylectricity: Well it is> the home of the king of beers.

Not for a few years now.

biggestdog420		2012-05-08 09:59:42 AM

St Louis - People are mean, climate sucks, traffic sucks, overtaken by thuggery, and the police are corrupt.

/glad I left

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