Inappropriate chess book covers

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Inappropriate chess book covers

Post by MSoszynski » Tue Aug 25, 2026 2:09 pm

Please don't research what this book is really about, as that would spoil the joke.

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Post by John Upham » Tue Aug 25, 2026 2:50 pm

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Games You Can Play With Your Pussy
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Re: Inappropriate chess book covers

Post by Neil Graham » Tue Aug 25, 2026 7:51 pm

There is, of course, The Big Book of Busts - see https://chessexpress.blogspot.com/2014/ ... busts.html

I would advise forum users not to Google the title as several non-chess references will appear.

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Post by John Upham » Tue Sep 01, 2026 4:48 pm

How about this one?



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Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions
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Re: Inappropriate chess book covers

Post by Jon Mahony » Wed Sep 02, 2026 1:27 am

I seem to remember there was one called "Soft Pawn" by Bill Hartston, which actually had some cartoon tits on the front lol
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Re: Inappropriate chess book covers

Post by Geoff Chandler » Wed Sep 02, 2026 10:03 am

Not quite inappropriate but...

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Post by Paul Robert Jackson » Wed Sep 02, 2026 10:24 am

Jon Mahony wrote:
Wed Sep 02, 2026 1:27 am
I seem to remember there was one called "Soft Pawn" by Bill Hartston, which actually had some cartoon tits on the front lol
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Re: Inappropriate chess book covers

Post by Simon Rogers » Wed Sep 02, 2026 3:16 pm

Neil Graham wrote:
Tue Aug 25, 2026 7:51 pm
There is, of course, The Big Book of Busts - see https://chessexpress.blogspot.com/2014/ ... busts.html

I would advise forum users not to Google the title as several non-chess references will appear.
I have a copy of that book, Neil. Howard Wood from Chess Essentials sold it to me one year at the Leyland Chess Congress.

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Post by Matt Mackenzie » Wed Sep 02, 2026 3:35 pm

Bill Tidy did the cartoons for How To Cheat At Chess too, and in both cases very well.
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Re: Inappropriate chess book covers

Post by Jon Mahony » Wed Sep 02, 2026 6:46 pm

Paul Robert Jackson wrote:
Wed Sep 02, 2026 10:24 am
Jon Mahony wrote:
Wed Sep 02, 2026 1:27 am
I seem to remember there was one called "Soft Pawn" by Bill Hartston, which actually had some cartoon tits on the front lol
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That's the one lol
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