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K4rbon

Hi, who are chess players who had also another job? I know Emanuel Lasker (mathematician), Edward Lasker (engineer), Botvinnik (engineer), but there are other?

Nazgulsauron

Max Eeuwe was a maths teacher.

Vease

Vidmar was an engineer, Kashdan sold insurance, Reshevsky was an accountant,  Capablanca was a 'diplomat' Wink.

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.

rooperi
Vease wrote:

Vidmar was an engineer,......

And very highly regarded, to this day there is a Milan Vidmar Insitute for (something with electricity)

Vease
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?

rooperi

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

Vease

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?

Vease
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.

theunsjb

GM John Nunn Cool  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.

K4rbon

I read also that Elo, the creator of ELO system, was a physicist.

varelse1

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.

Abhishek2

what model? what does he do?

Ubik42

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.

AndyClifton

Plus Ben wrote this:

as well as this:

honinbo_shusaku
varelse1 wrote:

Carlsen is infact a professional model.

 

Darn. We all got beaten by a model.

waffllemaster
AndyClifton wrote:

Plus Ben wrote this:

 

as well as this:

 

"On the Choice of a Mistress"

lol

Ubik42

I heard Magnus Carlsen...

is also an actor. Here he is in one of his movies:

AndyClifton
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.

Ubik42
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.

AndyClifton

And Ben kept trying to light a fire right in the middle of the room.