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#18, aired 2023-10-25FIX THE MOVIE QUOTE $200: Brad Pitt: "The first rule of chess club is: you do not talk about chess club" Fight Club
#8104, aired 2019-11-28CHESS TALK $200: A player conceding defeat is said to do this, like someone quitting an office resigning
#8104, aired 2019-11-28CHESS TALK $400: If this special move is done on the queenside, it's "long"; on the kingside, "short" castling
#8104, aired 2019-11-28CHESS TALK $600: An attack that forces a piece to move & expose another piece behind it is called this, after a type of beam discovered in 1895 X-ray
#8104, aired 2019-11-28CHESS TALK $800: The horizontal rows of squares on a chessboard are the ranks; the vertical ones are these files
#8104, aired 2019-11-28CHESS TALK $1000: Only the humble pawn can make this special type of capture with a French name en passant
#7908, aired 2019-01-16"SHOP" TALK $1200: The king's ones start each game on the F1 & F8 squares bishops
#7790, aired 2018-06-22VERY SMALL TALK $1200: A very small painting, or a very short game of chess a miniature
#6776, aired 2014-02-17TALK NERDY TO ME $800: It gives me chills when you say that Alekhine's Defense is named for the fourth world champion of this game chess
#5651, aired 2009-03-16LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $400: Even with two extra pawns, white can't force a win here, because these pieces can travel only on opposite-colored squares the bishops
#5651, aired 2009-03-16LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $800: Literally "in passing", it's the 2-word term for how a pawn can capture another pawn that's moved past it en passant
#5651, aired 2009-03-16LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White should have an easy win here, but he blows it by moving his queen to the D6 square, leading to this drawn outcome a stalemate
#5651, aired 2009-03-16LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $1600: Initiated by the moves E4 E6, this defense got its name from its use by a Paris team in an 1834 match with London the French defense
#5651, aired 2009-03-16LET'S TALK CHESS, CHAMPS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a chessboard.) White can't move his knight, because doing so would expose his king; the knight's said to be stuck to the king with this tactic, named for a pointy little object pinned

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