SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
”A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”–LIMERICK
There once was a girl in the nude,
Who played chess with some dude;
She announced to her date,
She was ready to mate,
But her meaning was quite misconstrued.
A chessplayer known to be great,
Was anything but sedate
When moving to win
He broadly would grin
And bellow: “That’s check – and mate!”
There once was a Polgar named Judith
She was great and we always knew it
She made top 10 in the world
And showed lots of girls
She’s a girl with a brain and can use it
There once was a player so slow
He moved every three days, although
He found plenty of time
To post rhyme after rhyme
But his moves he chose to forego.
I went to a tourney last week
and during a game took a leak
Coming back to the board
found my rival had stored
an opening book in his seat!
There once was a patzer named kamus
who thought he might end up quite famous
his wish soon came true
but that day he’d rue
for being known as a chess ignoramus!
Thx, Ed!!
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
Spraggett on Chess 