I heard that most Street Fighter players play chess!!!
Non - Chess celebrity who played chess..
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The Klitschko brothers are really poor players, as Boris Becker is.
Still they enjoy the game quite a bit.
Hitler, never heard of him as a chess player, but I recall one beginner's chess book I owe in which a game of Stalin was recorded.
Humphrey Bogart once did some chess hustling before he became a star. According to some, he chose friends on their chess abilities.
All the chess playing scenes in CASABLANCA were Bogart’s idea. He wanted a character that was a chess player that drank too much. There were some chess scenes of Bogart studying a chess game while Peter Lorre looked on that did not make the film. The character Rick Blaine always beat police officer Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) at chess.
A blooper in the movie is that a knight disappears in the opening chess game. Bogart, at the time, was analyzing a position in the French Defense from one of his correspondence games. One story is that somebody knocked over some pieces between filming and the stage hands set them up again, overlooking a knight. There were four different shots of the chessboard with different positions.
Stalin didn't play chess.He was too busy finding ways of murdering people.
Maybe chess helped him with that.
Who is the pretty lady in the pic, macer75?
Hint: actress in a movie franchise based on a series of novels, both of which have some diehard fans and more people who hate it.
Also the best-looking picture I've seen of her as of yet.
nice butt!
Well, cant deny that either!!
che guaverra was a murderer and a communist. he tortered poeple for fun and to ertertain his geust. why would you pivk him as profil picture?
Well said tjepie in #76 re. Che Guaverra.Astonishingly,there are some on this sight who have formed a chess study group under the name of Stalin.This is reprehensible.Stalin was a horrendous mass murderer of at least 20 million people.He used the vile KGB and Gulags to reign with absolute terror.
Sep 16, 2014
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#75
The Duke is an article on John Wayne and chess.
Two short articles: Hollywood , Hollywood II, and chess.
In addition to Macer75's Kristan Stewart photo, here are a couple featuring hollywood celebrities of a different age:
From "Chess Life," Feb. 1948.
From "Chess Life," Oct. 1948.
Wonderful information batgirl , thanks ! I wonder if he ever played any rated chess ?
They were real chess players!
Sep 16, 2014
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#78
How about this:
Wild West bandit Frank James (surviving brother of Jesse James) changing identity, becoming a chess player Frank James Marshall?
Lenin was allegedly a decent chess player himself, but still worse than Maxim Gorky.
Frederick II, king of Prussia, knew to play chess, but lost to Voltaire.
Fidel Castro allegedly drew a game vs Petrosian in the simul (the question remains if there weren't some machinations behind).
Czech poet and writer Viktor Dyk was a player of almost master strength, he lost to young master Duras in a match 3-8.
Czech mathematician Miroslav Katetov was promising player, but he retired from chess to become scientist.
Fictional person Jara Cimrman won vs Emanuel Lasker in a game. (Composed, fiction)
Czech president Milos Zeman allegedly knows to play chess and he compares his political decisions to chess moves sometimes. Unfortunately, there are no valid records of his games, some ancient witnesses remember class C player of his name.
Thanks batgirl and Polar bear too, for the wondeful information!!
Surely , there must be more!!