64 = 8x8
What an associated age for a chess player to die; the same number of years as squares on a chess board.
Former US citizen and chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer died yesterday in a Reykjavik hospital aged 64, the Evening Standard reports. The cause of his death is not known, but he'd been ill for some time. Fischer will be best remembered for his 1972 clash with Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik, which resulted in the US's first …
Nope, that would be Irish chess, played with a full pint as the "king" in the centre and the winner being whoever captures it first with one of the other pieces on the table using whatever rules they feel like. (Read up on its propless equivalent, Mornington Crescent, for a better idea of how it works.)
Sadly, what with the smoking ban removing most of the Irish chess pieces (fag packets, lighters, ashtrays) from the average pub table, I imagine it would be more like a game of draughts now.