I saw Steven Seagull playing chess in the movie,'' Born to raise hell''. But thats in the script.
Non - Chess celebrity who played chess..
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Sep 21, 2014
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I hear Ed Witten was rated around 1850.
Not surprising for a lot of scientists to have played at different points in their lives though.
Although most, like Einstein and Oppenheimer, weren't very good.
Queens of the Stone Age.
Sep 21, 2014
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macer75 wrote:
Although most, like Einstein and Oppenheimer, weren't very good.
Yeah that's what I heard.
I guess nobody has enough time to become both GM *and* come up with the theories of relativity, or M theory and the like ;)
Maddolis wrote:
macer75 wrote:
Although most, like Einstein and Oppenheimer, weren't very good.
Yeah that's what I heard.
I guess nobody has enough time to become both GM *and* come up with the theories of relativity, or M theory and the like ;)
Why Bobby Fischer?
I found no mention of Samuel Beckett in this interesting topic. I didn't find any picture of him playing. Check out this:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/aug/29/samuel-beckett-obsession-chess-influence
And...this!
PS. About Hollywood & History. Having seen the movie "300" ("this is Sparta", etc) I had the impression that those creatures in the film came from a period of 2500 years BEFORE the actual historic battles of Greeks vs Persians. It's as if time moves backwards for some people...
No mention of Napoleon in this thread yet?
Oct 2, 2014
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slvnfernando wrote:
I saw Steven Seagull playing chess in the movie,'' Born to raise hell''. But thats in the script.
Did he play the bird's opening?
JamesColeman wrote:
slvnfernando wrote:
I saw Steven Seagull playing chess in the movie,'' Born to raise hell''. But thats in the script.
Did he play the bird's opening?
No, he simply said , "World has pathetic creatures who can do nothing but pick on others mistakes!"
macer75 wrote:
No mention of Napoleon in this thread yet?
Cannot recall his name being mentioned here.
Try post 4.
Ah yes , your hero!
I'm just reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Love in the times of Cholera" in which the main character deals with chess quite a lot. In the book he's been having had a chess partner who had once won a game against Capablanca.
I couldn't find out much about Marquez and chess but there must be stronger connection.
vultureway wrote:
I'm just reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Love in the times of Cholera" in which the main character deals with chess quite a lot. In the book he's been having had a chess partner who had once won a game against Capablanca.
I couldn't find out much about Marquez and chess but there must be stronger connection.
Thanks for that interesting bit of information friend!
dashkee94 wrote:
Napolean was kinda famous, too.
Yes, but he was a lousy player. (He didn't do too well at Waterloo, either.)
Film director Stanley Kubrick (DR. STRANGELOVE, 2001, THE KILLING) was an expert who supported himself as a chess hustler before making his name in movies.
i think Lennox Lewis is rated about 1900