Call me morbid, but I would like to see the score of this Chess game.

[Hooleehootoo]

The one that lead up to this. It sounds like it was not a “touch move” related offense, but kibitzing.

[kaylasdad99]

The “score?”

I suspect that one of us doesn’t understand chess.

Also: Okay, you’re morbid.

Also, also: “LED up to this” :mad::mad::mad:

[Mr_Shine]

I’ll give you even money that Bellante was trying to en passant and O’Gorman refused to accept it as a valid move.

[Suburban_Plankton]

@Mr_Shine

I’ll give you even money that Bellante was trying to en passant and O’Gorman refused to accept it as a valid move.

I was thinking he tried to castle illegally…but your theory sounds more plausible.

[borschevsky]

@kaylasdad99

The “score?”

Game score: Glossary of Chess (Wikipedia)

[Little_Nemo]

O’Gorman wouldn’t stop calling his knight a “horsey” and Bellante finally snapped.

[Little_Nemo]

@kaylasdad99

The “score?”

It is the correct term for the record of moves that were made in the game.

[TroutMan]

This article says it wasn’t an argument over a legal move.

When Mr Bellante was asked what happened he said they were playing chess and he had “moved the king”. Mr O’Gorman had got angry and accused him a “stupid and perverse move”.

[kaylasdad99]

@Little_Nemo

It is the correct term for the record of moves that were made in the game.

…yeah, I was pretty sure it was me.

[Your_Great_Darsh_Face]

@kaylasdad99

The “score?”

I suspect that one of us doesn’t understand chess.

Turns out that’s you. But:

@A. A. Milne

Time was called; with an air of pride
Up to his feet rose Edward Bray.
“Marker, what of the score?” he cried,
“What of the battle I’ve won this day?”

The score was counted; and Bray had won
By two in honours, and four by tricks,
And half of a bishop that came undone,
And all of a bishop on KQ6.

–from “The Ballad of Edward Bray”, a poem celebrating the Oxford-Cambridge university chess match.

[don_t_ask]

I think it was just a misunderstanding. He thought that he heard “chest opening” but the King’s Indian isn’t quite one of those.

[AppallingGael]

Was the victim a registered organ donor?

[GIGObuster]

I think the OP was referring to the chess move notes.

The game I would like to find was the one that might had gave us the USA as we know it.

What They Didn't Teach You in American History Class

A British informant sent a small boy to Colonel Gottlieb (Johann) Rall with a message that Washington’s troops were about to cross the Delaware River. But the colonel was so engrossed in a Christmas chess game * that he put the unopened note in his pocket and continued to play the pieces on the board.

The note was later found in the pocket of Rall after being mortally wounded in the battle of Trenton.

*A game of cards in some accounts.

[Xema]

@Little_Nemo

O’Gorman wouldn’t stop calling his knight a “horsey” and Bellante finally snapped.

Justifiable homicide.

[The_King_of_Soup]

@Suburban_Plankton

I was thinking he tried to castle illegally…but your theory sounds more plausible.

Actually I like this theory. Someone who removed a lung and told people he got the heart has some issues re: left-right-center spatial coordination. Probably thought he was castling and grabbed bishop.