Comments on: Royal Error

By: Edwin Korir

Edwin Korir — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:49:46 +0000

I have always been amused by this stuff.

By: HagstromCondor

HagstromCondor — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:16:38 +0000

The examples cited by Kenyan Chess Blog and Mr. Panelas make this Rozerem(TM) blunder comparatively forgiveable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdpOIaGnzvA

By: Tom Panelas

Tom Panelas — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:44:33 +0000

And it’s not just advertising. Look at your March 2007 issue of Chess Life. On the cover illustration, both players have pawns of their own on their back ranks.

Maybe everybody knows this already.

By: Shazgood

Shazgood — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:45:43 +0000

I have postulated the three laws of chess advertisement to explain these badly assembled chess boards:

let me explain the First Law of Chess Advertisement. This states quite categorically, that “you absolutely must make sure to place the pieces the wrong way round for the expensively-assembled photo-shoot.”

The Second Law of Chess Advertisement goes like this: “You must ban all people who know the basic rules of chess from coming within a hundred yards of the photograph, or have any dealings with editing or publishing the photograph.”

Lastly, the Third Law of Chess Advertisement is not a law of chess or of advertisements at all, but a law of physics and has been demonstrably proved to be as fundamental a law as E=Mc2 or the first and second laws of thermodynamics. It is that in any randomly assembled chess set, the right-hand bottom square is always black.

This was all by-the-by, when I wrote about chocolate chess pieces!
http://shazgood.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/chocolate-chess-pieces/