Max Eeuwe was a maths teacher.
Chess players who had also another job
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Vidmar was an engineer, Kashdan sold insurance, Reshevsky was an accountant, Capablanca was a 'diplomat' 
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My favourite is the great Peruvian Julio Granda Zuniga, he's a farmer in the real world!
A lot of British players have second jobs - Luke McShane is a bond trader, Jonathan Rowson a university lecturer, Matthew Sadler a computer programmer, Paul Motwani a schoolteacher for example
Of course 90 percent of 'professional' players have to make ends meet by coaching or journalism, there are very few players that just survive on tournament winnings or appearance fees.
Vease wrote:
Vidmar was an engineer,......
And very highly regarded, to this day there is a Milan Vidmar Insitute for (something with electricity)
Chas_Beard wrote:
Does M. Carlsen have a job outside of chess? (Please don't say "model" -- I don't believe that for a second)
He makes like 3 million dollars a year from Chess (or chess related endorsements) why would he have another job?
Fine was a psychologist? Taimanov a concert pianist. Oldrich Duras was also a succesful composer.
[edit] oops, should have read properly, thats chess problem composer, lol
I think Fine had retired when he became a psychologist...Taimanov is the one that always gets me, a World Class chess grandmaster AND an internationally admired concert pianist...how on earth could someone have that much talent?
Chas_Beard wrote:
Vease wrote:
Chas_Beard wrote:
Does M. Carlsen have a job outside of chess? (Please don't say "model" -- I don't believe that for a second)
He makes like 3 million dollars a year from Chess (or chess related endorsements) why would he have another job?
Serious?
Yeah he has a company called Magnuschess in Norway that handles all of his business affairs, companies are falling over themselves to offer him endorsements.
Jan 27, 2013
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GM John Nunn 
Apart from being a magnificent player, he was a mathematics lecturer and went on to gain his doctorate in 1978. And if I am not mistaken, he has a deep interest in Astronomy as well.
I read also that Elo, the creator of ELO system, was a physicist.
Jan 27, 2013
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Carlsen is infact a professional model.
All Soviet era players were required to have day jobs. Kasparov was/is a journalist. Karpov an economist. He currently sits in Russian Parlaiment, last I heard.
I believe Smyslov was a composer.
Kirsan Ilyumshnov was an assisstant assassin and part-time assisstant dictator.
(note to self - lock door tonight)
I am a software engineer. (Hey I may suck at chess, but I am still a chess professional. I make money at it.)
Marcel Duchamp was an artiste.
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist.
Czar Peter the Great was a Russian emperor.
Benjamin Franklin was a scientist, wrtier, politician, postmaster general, printer, and American ambassador to the french court.
Plus Ben wrote this:
as well as this:
varelse1 wrote:
Carlsen is infact a professional model.
Darn. We all got beaten by a model.
AndyClifton wrote:
Plus Ben wrote this:
as well as this:
"On the Choice of a Mistress"
lol
I heard Magnus Carlsen...
is also an actor. Here he is in one of his movies:
waffllemaster wrote:
"On the Choice of a Mistress"
lol
Yep, Ben was a randy little rascal. One of the reasons that John Adams and him never got along too splendidly.
AndyClifton wrote:
waffllemaster wrote:
"On the Choice of a Mistress"
lol
Yep, Ben was a randy little rascal. One of the reasons that John Adams and him never got along too splendidly.
They weren't that bad together. Just couldn't agree on whether to open the window or not.
Hi, who are chess players who had also another job? I know Emanuel Lasker (mathematician), Edward Lasker (engineer), Botvinnik (engineer), but there are other?