I thought I'd try Google with this, so I typed in "chess + songs" - and up came this: "does anyone here know any great chess songs that you can sing around the camp fire? " - it comes from this site, http://gameknot.com/fcgi/ - but I couldn't find the thread.

It was quite interesting looking at it, because it's got a lot in common with Mudcat. People who are primarily there because of a shared interest/obsession with a cultural sub-world -and a tension between those who want to use this as a platform on which to stand while talking about other things, and those who don't approve of that.

It appears that the same kind of feuding goes on, about the same kind of things. (I note they've got a separate "Flame Wars /Trash Bin" section, equivalent to the kind of sin bin some people would like for BS threads. But I imagine with Chess it's easier to draw a line between what is off-topic and what isn't than it ever can be with folk music and song. I mean, you can't have a Chess game about political issues.)

But I still couldn't find that thread about songs to see if it got anywhere.