Oh man!
The guy has'nt been online for 24 months 
are there any celebritys who play chess on chess.com
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shell_knight wrote:
Chess.com has over 8 million accounts. The population of the world is 7 million. Therefore on average each person on earth has 1 and 1/7th accounts here.
Wow! was there a nuclear war that I didn't hear about or something?
Sep 8, 2014
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#105
I guess a lot of celebrities are on the site enjoying being "unknown". Most celebrities cannot walk down the street without cameras or being recognized. here they can just play chess and chat without anyone asking for favours. most celebrities need to disguise themself and get a fake name to walk around without being noticed.
I guess they would make up a story like they are waitress or something.
RG1951 wrote:
He's one of the top professional poker players. I don't reckon that qualifies as famous.
Id say it does when your practically on ESPN all the time, have won 6 world series of poker bracelets, and racked up nearly 15 million in career winnings. I realize he's not like a pop star celebrity but the guy is still pretty damn famous.
Here is a list of some famous chess players. Now we just need to figure out if any of them are chess.com members.
Artists and Musicians
Bono (U2)
Madonna
John Lennon
Guy Ritchie
Frank Sinatra
Salvador Dali
Ludwig van Beethoven
David Bowie
Ringo Starr
Bob Dylan
Sting
Ray Charles
Cher
Actors & Entertainers
Will Smith
Marilyn Monroe
Ben Affleck
Nicholas Cage
Christina Ricci
Bill Cosby
Julia Roberts
Keanu Reeves
Steve Martin
Matt Damon
Susan Sarandon
Danny DeVito
Martin Lawrence
Brooke Shields
Marlon Brando
Marlene Dietrich
Mel Brooks
Alfred Hitchcock
Harvey Keitel
Stanley Kubrick
David Letterman
Paul Newman
Chuck Norris
Al Pacino
Kevin Spacey
David Spade
Sylvester Stallone
Oliver Stone
Barbra Streisand
John Wayne
Robin Williams
Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor and California governor)
Athletes
Kobe Bryant (NBA)
Wilt Chamberlain (NBA)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (NBA)
Larry Bird (NBA)
Danny Ainge (NBA)
Latrell Sprewell (NBA)
Steve Smith (NBA)
Jason Williams (NBA)
Rick Carlisle (NBA coach)
Flip Saunders (NBA coach)
LaVar Arrington (NFL)
Curtis Martin (NFL)
Bill Walsh (NFL coach)
Anna Kournikova (tennis)
John McEnroe (tennis)
Jennifer Capriati (tennis)
Gary Sheffield (baseball)
Vitaly Klitschko (boxer)
Lennox Lewis (boxer)
Rafael Benitez (soccer manager)
Dominic Hasek (hockey)
Mike Powell (long jump world record holder)
U.S.-Based business Leaders
Bill Gates (Microsoft founder)
Roelof Botha (early YouTube investor)
Peter Andreas Thiel (PayPal co-founder, early Facebook investor)
Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder)
George Soros (Wall Street investor)
Politicians
George Washington (US President)
Thomas Jefferson (US President)
John Quincy Adams (US President)
Abraham Lincoln (US President)
Theodore Roosevelt (US President)
Jimmy Carter (US President)
Richard Nixon (US President)
Al Gore (US vice-president)
Henry Kissinger (American politician)
Napoleon Bonaparte (French Emperor)
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
Mikhail Gorbachev (former USSR president)
Boris Yeltsin (Russian leader)
Jacques Chirac (French president)
Cory Aquino (Philippine President)
Anwar Sadat (Egyptian leader)
Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister)
Nobel Prize winners
Albert Einstein (physics)
Albert Michelson (physics)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (physics)
Max Planck (physics)
Carl Wieman (physics)
Zhores Alferov (physics)
William Lawrence Bragg (physics)
Percy Bridgman (physics)
Richard Feynman (physics)
Peter Kapitza (physicist)
Sinclair Lewis (literature)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (literature)
William Yeats (literature)
Elias Canetti (literature)
John Cockroft (literature)
Samuel Beckett (literature)
Ivo Andric (literature)
Isaac Singer (literature)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (literature)
William Golding (literature)
John Steinbeck (literature)
John Nash (economics)
John Harsanyi (economics)
Edward Prescott (economics)
Gerard Debreu (economics)
John Harsanyi (economics)
James Heckman (economics)
Simon Herbert (economics)
Dudley Herschbach (chemistry)
Sir Robert Robinson (chemistry)
Herbert Sir Frederick Soddy (chemistry)
John Cornforth (chemistry)
Bertrand Russell (philosopher)
Bernard Katz (medicine)
Writers
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
Isaac Asimov
Charles Dickens
Lewis Carroll
Rudyard Kipling
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jack London
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vladimir Nabokov
George Orwell
Lev Tolstoy
Oscar Wilde
Other Famous Chess Players
Howard Stern (radio and TV personality)
John Paul II (pope)
Isaac Newton (physicist)
Christopher Columbus (explorer)
Barron Hilton (Chairman of Hilton Hotel Chain)
Alan Turing (mathematician and inventor of the computer)
David Rockefeller (philanthropist)
Al Capone (criminal)
Benjamin Franklin (American politician and inventor)
Harry Houdini (escape artist)
Sir Francis Bacon (philosopher)
Karl Marx (German philosopher)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (philosopher)
Jean-Paul Sartre (philosopher)
Voltaire (philosopher)
@TurboFish - you should start by excluding the dead ones. There's a bunch of them.
Brazil_World wrote:
alexm2310 wrote:
Brazil_World wrote:
ConnorMacleod_151 wrote:
batgirl wrote:
Synaphai wrote:
Assuming it's not a fake profile, there's Emily Didonato: http://www.chess.com/members/view/Pumpkie
I believe it's a real profile.
...and I trusted batgirl
same name and same birthday
cannot be coincidence?
And of course there's no way at all it could be someone pretending to be her... just saying bro
she is not famous enough for someone to pretend to be her
rumor has it shes a dude.... just sayin..... and from a very reliable source.
TRANKD wrote:
@TurboFish - you should start by excluding the dead ones. There's a bunch of them.
You're correct of course that many of the individuals on the list are deceased. It's interesting to see their names anyway.
If they ever decide to tour together, maybe we could get Madonna, Bono, Sting, David Bowie, Ringo Star, and Cher to play chess in a double-round Robin?
thecentipede wrote:
Brazil_World wrote:
please don't go off-topic.
Emily Didonato, model, famous chess.com celebrity, and 1700 online chess rating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_DiDonato
http://www.chess.com/members/view/Pumpkie
what 'Pumpkie' really looks like in real life...
Holy cr@p, you made me laugh HARD!!! lmao!!...
I know Im being a bit judgemental but I was always a fan of his..... I really cant imagine Jason Williams playing chess lol. He was creative as hell on the basketball court though.
I'm pretty sure Frank Sinatra on that list above,(chairman of the board), is actually Erik but you didn't hear it from me.
Sep 10, 2014
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#114
Regarding the list:
I'm not aware of a single indication that George Washington even knew how to play chess whereas Josip Broz Tito, who was well-noted as a chess player isn't mentioned. It mentions Bono, but not Sonny Bono.
It's true Tito once challenged all Supreme Soviet members to a simul?
batgirl wrote:
Regarding the list:
I'm not aware of a single indication that George Washington even knew how to play chess whereas Josip Broz Tito, who was well-noted as a chess player isn't mentioned. It mentions Bono, but not Sonny Bono.
Batgirl, the list certainly isn't complete or up-to-date. Did Sonny Bono (RIP) play chess?
Regarding our first president, here is an interesting article from the Guardian:
Chess helped Washington win the war
http://www.guardian.co.tt/sport/2011/08/18/chess-helped-washington-win-war
Long_Hair_Dont_Care wrote:
I know Im being a bit judgemental but I was always a fan of his..... I really cant imagine Jason Williams playing chess lol. He was creative as hell on the basketball court though.
It seems plausible that some of the specific skills developed by chess practice (e.g., planning and spatial relationships) could enhance performance at physical sports. Maybe Jason William's creativity on the court reflects his creativity on the chess board? (Or maybe the other way around)
Due to the fast pace of basketball, I would guess that he prefers speed-chess.
Sep 10, 2014
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#118
I know the story in the article, but the story has nothing to do with Washington playing chess. However, the article mentions, as do various places, that "Washington's Ivory Chess set" resides at the "US National Museum in Washington DC." This is a most unusual way to refer to the Smithsonian. A search of the Smithsonian archives produces some chess sets but nothing having belonged to Washington.
Sonny and Cher
If you look CLOSELY, there's a set of drums behind that curtain. That might be a publicity photo.
i have played chess against this guy on chess.com, but i won't tell you his username :D
I bet I can find his username