Is This Chess Table Illegal? - By: Joe bob

There are many types and place where chess tables are available. Mahogany, alabaster, marble and other luxurious materials are used to make a chess table. Many are crafted by artisans and are furniture quality tables. They can range from inexpensive to very valuable display tables for a collectors high-end chess pieces.
You can find them in living rooms, family rooms, game rooms and maybe even in bed rooms. They are not only confined to your house. You can see them in classrooms at school, libraries, parks, community rooms and gaming halls. But did you know that one of these tables and locations may be illegal?
After reading this article, I learned that there is chess table that may be illegal to sit at. As hard as it is to believe, there is one in Tompkins Square in NYC. The Article titled “Woman Arrested for Sitting at Tompkins Square Chess Tables” claims she was arrested for sitting at a chess table in the park and not playing chess. The sign in the photo says “These tables are for chess and checkers only”, so if you are sitting at these tables and not playing checkers or chess, you are subject to arrest.
Will this kind of legislation spread to other public places? When the government goes as far as to draft laws or covenants regarding where people can sit or just hang-out for a while, they are spending their time inefficiently. What about our depression level unemployment, gas prices soaring and a deficit that is over a trillion dollars, I think they should pay more concern to these issues.
Check your local parks and other public places to play chess and see if there are any signs restricting people from sitting at chess tables and not playing chess or checkers. I think that if someone would sit at a chess table to rest or just to be with friends is not any different from sitting at a park bench. Even better, I think if people sit around a chess table long enough, they will start playing chess. Maybe if we had more chess tables in the parks we would groom a whole sector of people that go to the parks into chess players.
Maybe if more people where playing chess, their strategic abilities, planning prowess and risk assessment would be heightened. I think decisions that were made by the City council and/or Park officials would be more focused in areas of greater concern. What about putting a chess table in City Hall, this may be something that should be required in all communities. All the politicians, that we elected and some that were appointed, should sit down daily and play chess.

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