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unusually good chess players

Last updated on Fri, 08/17/2007 at 1:48am.

These famous people not only were avid chess players, but established the following ratings. I'm not sure why, but leftist dictators and revolutionaries seem to be unusually good chess players.

Alan Alda (actor) 1400 rating

Humphrey Bogart 1900 rating

Nicholas Cage (actor) 1500 rating

Fidel Castro (dictator) 1900 rating

Charlie Chaplin (actor) 1400 rating

Ray Charles (musician) 1600 rating

Che Guevara (revolutionary) 1950 rating

Ted Danson (actor) 1400 rating

Peter Falk (actor) 1400 rating

Al Jolson (musician) 1600 rating

Henry Kissinger (politician) 1400 rating

Vladimir Lenin (Russian dictator) 1900 rating

David Letterman (talk show) 1100 rating

Jerry Matthers (the Beaver) 1400 rating

George Pataki (NY Governor) 1100 rating

Arnold Schwarzenenegger 1500 ratingJ

immy Stewart (actor) 1300 rating

John Wayne (actor) 1200 rating

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by Treegushingtowardsky - 13 months ago
Brautwurst, GA United States

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 2

Very interesting.

by fleiman - 13 months ago
Carmiel Israel

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 215

I did not understand how rating has been calculated.

by batgirl - 13 months ago
NC United States

Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 3114

The "ratings" should be removed as there is no basis for them.

by joeyson - 13 months ago
salem oregon United States

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 300

wow arnold Schwarzenenegger can play

by bosco - 12 months ago
Nauru

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 172

Pataki RULES ! ;-) and i think that there is one zero missing from ARNOLD's rating.

It should be 15000!

by emef44 - 12 months ago
Louisville, KY United States

Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 16

Ray Charles was the man.

by 5Rivers - 11 months ago
Virginia United States

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 5

Interesting, and Batgirl.. the ratings should not be removed.

by A-Jenery - 11 months ago
England Great Britain

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 251

I wonder over how many games these ratings are based, and how regularly they played, but nice to know anyway.

by Randominity - 10 months ago
Yakima, Wa United States

Member Since: Nov 2007
Member Points: 21

these ratings are obviously vauge guesses. there is no way - out of all those people - all of them could have a rating that ended in zero

by darkmage2007 - 10 months ago
Ohio United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 47

batgirl has a point. There is no standard for these ratings. There are many rating systems, and they aren't equal. For example, in my city's high school league, I have a rating of 1532 and a USCF rating of 1488. Since these people lived in different countries and different time periods, the rating systems are likely to be different, therefore the numbers don't mean a thing.