In a local community, chess has been banned on various accounts of it not meeting community moral standards. Some citizens brought forth complaints after hearing chess-players discussing various variations, binds, pins, advances, openings, counterthrusts, etc. A town meeting was called.
Before the chess proponents could explain the real meanings of such terms as the horny defence (1 e4 e5 2 f4 exf4 3 Nf3 g5 4 h4 g5 5 Ng5 h6 6 Nxf7 Kxf7 7 Qxg4 Nf6 8 Qxf4 Bd6), the corkscrew countergambit (1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 f5 3 Nxe5 Nf6 4 Bc4 fxe4 5 Nf7 Qe7 6 Nxh8 d5), and the fingerslip variation (1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 Bd2) ... one of the aldermen began quoting from Fine's _Psychology of the Chess Player_ and it was all over. Chess and the discussion of chess was ruled to be lewd and below community moral standards. The chess players have been driven underground.
Source: Craig Jefferies, rec.games.chess