Funny Chess Story: Man Suspected of Kidnapping While Playing Online
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Hi everyone,
This is a funny chess story going around on the Internet. We found the English version at Chess Vibes. The German police arrested a man when one of his neighbors reported that he was shouting at someone in his apartment about not letting them escape. Supposedly this 60-year-old gentleman was shouting stuff like: You won't get out of here!
The incident happened in Lorräch, Germany. The chess player opened the door of his apartment quite surprised when the police landed up. Apparently he had been playing chess online and shouting at his virtual opponent. He told the officers that he wasn't keeping a prisoner but that he was a passionate chess player, involved in a chess game online.
The news has been picked up by a host of news sources like Südkurier, Neckar-Chronik, Op-Online andTV-Südbaden. It was also picked up by e.g. the major Dutch news site nu.nl and the biggest Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
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Also see her personal blog at
www.chessqueen.com
Hi everyone,
This is a funny chess story going around on the Internet. We found the English version at Chess Vibes. The German police arrested a man when one of his neighbors reported that he was shouting at someone in his apartment about not letting them escape. Supposedly this 60-year-old gentleman was shouting stuff like: You won't get out of here!
The incident happened in Lorräch, Germany. The chess player opened the door of his apartment quite surprised when the police landed up. Apparently he had been playing chess online and shouting at his virtual opponent. He told the officers that he wasn't keeping a prisoner but that he was a passionate chess player, involved in a chess game online.
The news has been picked up by a host of news sources like Südkurier, Neckar-Chronik, Op-Online andTV-Südbaden. It was also picked up by e.g. the major Dutch news site nu.nl and the biggest Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
www.chessblog.com
Also see her personal blog at
www.chessqueen.com
Labels: funny chess, online chess
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 9:49 AM
4 Comments:
At July 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM ,
alexis cochran, nz said...
that's really mad ha h ah will remember when i play next time
At July 4, 2012 at 2:37 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Thats why people love chess it helps with all that catharsis
At July 5, 2012 at 5:43 AM ,
saira fernandes, madrid said...
golly i better be careful wink
At July 5, 2012 at 9:37 AM ,
chris, ny said...
I like your tweet chess queen
@chessqueen Funny #Chess Story: Man Suspected of Kidnapping While Playing Online bit.ly/N7cw73 (via @chessblog) - I don't go this far :-)
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