botvinik vs Lasker...botvinik bridged the old school to the modern masters

Charlie's Angels

Arpad Elo, inventor of the Elo rating system

The lesser known Polgar brothers

Petrosian & Fischer

Douglas Fairbanks

 He (B F ) was the only player that did that! No other Soviets came...

(source : B F goes to war )

What a great pic, thx 4 sharing!

Joel Lautier and Jan Timman

James Mason (not the chess player) and Shelley Winters in Lolita

Yoko Ono - chess patron

Bertrand Russell

This may jsut be the most spectacular thread going -- keep it going!

I hear Bono (of U2 and numerous charitable causes) is also master-level.  Any pictures of him -- I realize he's far from a "great" player, but a pic might be neat.

ZV

Dustin Hoffman and Susan George learning how to mate

John Wayne

I like that in the Fischer-Petrosian pic, the game hasn't even started and Fischer already looks posssesd.

Marlon Brando playing chess on the set of "The Wild One." A big version of this pic can be found at http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1449564160/tt0047677 .

Russ

Last game between these greats, Alekhine and Capablanca. AVRO 1938.

Alekhine won.

Chess in a military helicoptor.

Here... I found another famous person playing chess: Sinatra versus Karvov

There is online a list of famous people who play chess, politicians, movie stars, singers and others. Wanna read it? go to: http://www.saintlouischessclub.org/Media/10-Famous-People-Who-Played-Chess.pdf