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slvnfernando · 2013-10-08T09:38:41-07:00

I wonder who might be the most celebrated personality in human history who was not a chess player by profession, yet played chess as a hobby? Lenin, Gorky and Che are a few that comes to my mind! Che in his USSR visit at a Chess game. This pic shows Lenin and Bogdanov (a Bolshevik leader )playing

9thEagle

Oct 15, 2014

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#101

Did anyone mention Duchamp? He was an artist that actually quit art to do chess. He played in several Olympiads, although he was never among the best in the world (his country, France, maybe).

billwall

Oct 15, 2014

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#102

I've been collecting names of famous people and celebrities for over 40 years, and the lists have been published in many sources. Maurice Ashley used my list in his chapter on celebrities in his book Chess for Success. Here is an alphabetical list (and reference) of 1192 famous people who play(ed) chess. If you have other celebrities or famous people not on this list who play chess (with a good reference), let me know and I will add it to the list.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gl6aYO26etIRk5yrjvlACahTbCUeaHBYC6ajC6dvQhk/edit?usp=sharing

also see

http://www.chessmaniac.com/index.php/2014/10/18/famous-people-and-chess-i/

http://www.chessmaniac.com/index.php/2014/10/19/famous-people-and-chess-ii/

slvnfernando

Oct 16, 2014

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#103

billwall wrote:

I've been collecting names of famous people and celebrities for over 40 years, and the lists have been published in many sources. Maurice Ashley used my list in his chapter on celebrities in his book Chess for Success. Here is an alphabetical list (and reference) of 1192 famous people who play(ed) chess. I can add at least a dozen more, which I will update at a later date. If you have other celebrities or famous people not on this list who play chess (with a good reference), let me know and I will add it to the list.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZFIaOtxWSoa61wFk25DOLSddklILPusfrlnrGGxpEm4/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks friend! Your list makes my thread redundant. But great work , anyway !

dashkee94

Oct 16, 2014

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#104

Jed_Leland wrote:

dashkee94 wrote:

Napolean was kinda famous, too.

Yes, but he was a lousy player. (He didn't do too well at Waterloo, either.)

The English Defense finished him. He should have stayed with the Austrian Attack and the Italian Game. The Russian Game hurt him a lot, too.

slvnfernando

Oct 16, 2014

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#105

dashkee94 wrote:

Jed_Leland wrote:

dashkee94 wrote:

Napolean was kinda famous, too.

Yes, but he was a lousy player. (He didn't do too well at Waterloo, either.)

The English Defense finished him. He should have stayed with the Austrian Attack and the Italian Game. The Russian Game hurt him a lot, too.

Yep!

slvnfernando

Oct 25, 2014

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#106

slvnfernando wrote:

dashkee94 wrote:

Jed_Leland wrote:

dashkee94 wrote:

Napolean was kinda famous, too.

Yes, but he was a lousy player. (He didn't do too well at Waterloo, either.)

The English Defense finished him. He should have stayed with the Austrian Attack and the Italian Game. The Russian Game hurt him a lot, too.

Should have stuck to the French Openning!

slvnfernando

Feb 9, 2016

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#107

slvnfernando wrote:

dashkee94 wrote:

Jed_Leland wrote:

dashkee94 wrote:

Napolean was kinda famous, too.

Yes, but he was a lousy player. (He didn't do too well at Waterloo, either.)

The English Defense finished him. He should have stayed with the Austrian Attack and the Italian Game. The Russian Game hurt him a lot, too.

Should have stuck to the French Openning!

What about the Vienna game??

Pulpofeira

Feb 9, 2016

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#108

Jed_Leland escribió:

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 wonder why apparently there are no games between him and Nabokov, who collaborated in the film about his novel "Lolita".

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 9, 2016

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#109

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 9, 2016

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#110

... play chess with my friends all day! Maybe go to Cuba when it opens for some good rum, good cigars, nice weather & cheap livin & cheap lovin!

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 9, 2016

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#111

Robert Heinlein played chess,Bogart,John Wayne,would the inmates on LockUp count?

slvnfernando

Feb 11, 2016

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#112

What do u mean Lazarus??

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 11, 2016

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#113

Hemingway.

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 11, 2016

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#114

slvnfernando wrote:

What do u mean Lazarus??

They're celebraties,and some play chess all day.

slvnfernando

Feb 11, 2016

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#115

Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:

slvnfernando wrote:

What do u mean Lazarus??

They're celebraties,and some play chess all day.

No , I was asking about your reference to inmates on Lockup, friend?

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 11, 2016

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#116

Right,that's the answer. Lockup inmates on TV are minor celebraties.

ATJ1968

Feb 18, 2016

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#117

Bono from the U2 pop group played chess at school.

bjazz

Feb 19, 2016

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#118

I started a thread about Ray Charles some years ago. He was a decent B/A class-player.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/ray-charles

slvnfernando

Mar 20, 2016

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#119

Whoa, Ray Charles ??

bjazz

Mar 29, 2016

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#120

slvnfernando wrote:

Whoa, Ray Charles ??

You seem to have commented something similar way back in 2010