I'm working on a project with a colleague, working up a presentation about a particular chess opening played by none other than Bobby Fischer. In the presentation we thought a bit of humor might be nice so we served up a rework of an old Russian chess joke. The gag goes that old Boris played chess every day with his childhood pal Ivan. One day, Ivan passed away and Boris was very sad, as he had no one to play chess with. While he was in the middle of playing out an old game from a chess book, Ivan appears from the great beyond. Boris is surprised, but not enough to prevent him from asking a question. "Ivan" he asked, "Is there chess in heaven?" Ivan told him that all the greats were up there, playing fantastic chess in tournament after tournament, but, he explained not all the news as good, so he said, "Boris, you'll be able to play chess too!" "What is so bad about that." replied Boris. "Your scheduled to play Fischer with the black pieces this Thursday."