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Post by perseus on May 12, 2006 14:39:28 GMT -5
What celebrities in other worlds of work (not chess Masters) play chess. Not some of the politicians methinks.
I am sure I have heard of a few in the past. May have even been a thread before. Did John Lennon play chess?
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Post by Wookiee on May 12, 2006 16:41:19 GMT -5
Eddie Murphy plays chess.
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Post by perseus on May 15, 2006 7:01:36 GMT -5
I am not sure who Eddie Murphy is? Is he a film star?
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Post by Wookiee on May 16, 2006 17:30:10 GMT -5
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Post by perseus on May 18, 2006 19:45:54 GMT -5
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Post by perseus on May 18, 2006 20:25:10 GMT -5
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Post by yitwail on May 19, 2006 0:28:58 GMT -5
perseus, really impressed by Oscar Wilde defeating E. Lasker in a simultaneous game, if that was actually Emanuel Lasker. Wilde didn't just win, he crushed Lasker!
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Post by Wookiee on May 19, 2006 11:42:02 GMT -5
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Post by perseus on May 22, 2006 18:11:05 GMT -5
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Post by Gritty on May 24, 2006 6:00:34 GMT -5
Lennox Lewis plays.
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Post by tumshie on Jun 4, 2006 23:32:18 GMT -5
A random selection taken from the book "The Complete Chess Addict". (There are many more but I can't be bothered typing them all- get a copy of the book!)
Men of Evil:
Alistier Crowley
Winston Churchill
Henry Kissinger
Politicians:
Andrew Bonar Law
Lenin
Trotsky
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
Spiro Agnew
Ho Chi Minh
Marshall Tito
Tony Benn
Napoleon Bonaparte
General Robert E Lee
Musicians and Composers:
Prokofiev
Yehudi Menuhin
Mendelssohn
Shostakovitch
Ronnie Scott
Dizzy Gillespie
Bjorn from ABBA
Phil Lynott
John Lennon (+Yoko Ono)
Ringo Starr
Willie Nelson
Adam Faith
Tim Rice
Artists:
Marcel Duchamp
Rembrandt
Authors:
William Golding
Tolstoy
Arthur Ransome
Samuel Beckett
W.B. Yeats
Bertrand Russell
Raymond Chandler
Peter Mark Roget (invented the pocket chess set as well as his thesaurus)
Dostoevsky
Vladimir Nabokov
Samuel Pepys
Charles thingyens
George Eliot
Robert Louis Stevenson
HG Wells
Martin Amis
Edgar Allen Poe
Goethe
Balzac
William Burroughs
Entertainers:
Humphrey Bogart
Marlon Brando
John Wayne
Al Jolson
Shirley Temple
Charlie Chaplin
Errol Flynn
Alistair Sim
Peter Lorre (my favourite)
George Peppard (I love it when a plan comes together!)
Frank Sinatra
Ingmar Bergman
Kate Jackson (Charlie's Angels)
Patrick MGoohan
Harry Houdini
Stephen Fry
Sportsmen:
Simen Adgestein (GM and Norwegian soccer internationalist!)
Daley Thomson (olympic decathlete with several gold medals)
Ron Guidry (baseball, apparently)
Terry Marsh (boxing world champion)
Ossie Ardiles (World Cup winning Argentinian footballer)
Steve Davis (former world snooker champ and co-author of a chess book)
Frank Bruno (same as Terry Marsh)
Joe Bugner (same as Bruno)
Steve Ovett (gold medalist at several olympics, runner)
Ivan Lendl (top tennis player)
Alfredo de Stefano (Italian football legend)
Casanova (it's a kind of sport and he doesn't really fit anywhere else!)
Thinkers/Philosophers:
Albert Einstein
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Dmitri Mendelyev
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