Celebrities who play chess.
Yep, even Stephen Fry plays chess!
This is my first blog post, and I just thought that maybe celebrities playing chess was impossible. But when I googled it, I found out yes it was possible! According to The Stormont Kings's Chris Stormont, celebrities who play or played chess are:
- Leonardo di Carpio – Actor
- Ted Danson – Actor
- Julia Roberts – Actor
- Martin Lawrence – Actor
- Mel Brooks – Actor
- Ray Charles – Musician
- Albert Einstein – Everyone knows him
- Peter Thiel – Co-Founder of PayPal
- Bill Gates – Microsoft
- Frank Sinatra – Singer, Actor
- Madonna – Singer
- Isaac Newton – Thinker
- Benjamin Franklin – US President
- Fidel Castro – President of Cuba
- William Shakespeare – Writer
- Princess Diana
- David Letterman – TV Talk Host
- Marcel Duchamp – Artist
- Boris Becker – Tennis Player
- John Quincy Adams – US President
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – Basketball Player
- Ossie Ardiles – Soccer Player
- Seve Ballesteros – Master Golf Champion
- Dick Barnett – NY Knicks Basketball Player
- Frank Baum – Writer – Wizard of Oz
- Ludwig Beethoven – Music – German Composer
- Kobe Bryant – NBA Basketball Player
- Jimmy Carter – US President
- Rosalyn Carter – Wife of Jimmy Carter
- Michael Chang – Tennis Player
- Frederic Chopin – Music – Pianist
- Grover Cleveland – US President
- Bill Cosby – Actor
- Salvador Dali – Artist
- Abraham De Moivere – Thinker – Mathematician
- Fred Hoyle – Astronomer
- Bobby Jones – Golfer
- Steve Martin – Actor
- Mike Marshall – Baseball Player for the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Nicolas Cage – Actor
- Arnold Schwarzenegger – You know him
- Dustin Diamond – Actor
- Brooke Shields – Actor
- Jessica Simpson – Actor
- Danny DeVito – Actor
- Robin Williams – Actor
- Matt Damon – Actor
- Barbara Streisand – Actor
- Ben Affleck – Actor
- Stephen Fry – Actor
- Abraham Lincoln – US President
- John Lennon – Music – Beatles
- Chris Rock – Actor
- Teddy Roosevelt – US President
- Will Smith, in an interview
Pretty amazing right? The only thing that amazed me was that Will Smith played chess, which seems pretty impossible right? So that's my first post. P.s. Who is Ben Affleck?