Chess was played by a number of great Jazz and Rock Musicans can you name any?

no, but you've piqued my interest.

None that I know of, but my interest is piqued.

Me too

Ray Charles played chess.

Musicians who played chess: Jean Absil (composer), Jon Anderson (Yes), Thomas Beecham (English conductor), Ludwig Beethoven, Art Blakey (jazz musician), Sir Arthur Bliss (Master of the Queen's Music), Alex Borodin (Russian composer), David Bowie, Adolf Brodsky (violinist and conductor), Clifford Brown (jazz musician), John Cage, Enrico Caruso, Pablo Casals (cellist), Ray Charles, Chopin, Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond, Antonin Dvorak, Mischa Ehlman (violinist), Ferenc Erkel, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Goffin (songwriter), Leo Kahn (violinist), Gene Krupa (drummer), John and Lennon, John Lill (pianist), Johnny Marks (wrote Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer), Felix Mendelssohn, Yehudi Menuhin, Modest Mussorgsky, Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, and Nash), Willie Nelson, David Oistrakh (violinist), Yoko Ono, Philidor, Gregor Piatigorsky (cellist), Sergei Prokofiev (composer), Helen Reddy, Ruggiero Ricci, Tim Rice, Sviatoslav Richter, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Monz Rosenthal (pianist), , Arthur Rubinstein (pianist), Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich (composer), Ringo Starr, Isaac Stern, Sting, Richard Strauss, Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA), Giuseppe Verdi (composer), Heitor Villa-Lobos, Paul Whiteman (jazz musician), Rudolf Wilmers (pianist), and Tadeusz Wronski (composer).

where did you get your information? the only ones i got right were john lennon and david bowie.

Google is a wonderful search engine sometimes

Saxophonists Anthony Braxton and Ellery Eskelin are chess players.

 

 

Nice list orejano! I study music at university and we have a fairly large chess club, so I think there is something to do with chess and music, maybe because they both stimulate creativity?