hahahahahahahahahahahha God bless you Batgirl. That's Gene Krupa! He played drums with Benny Goodman--The King Of Swing in the 40's. He also got busted for marajana. He lived in Yonkers New York. Sal Mineo did the movie about his life. Thank U!
are there any celebritys who play chess on chess.com
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Sep 10, 2014
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I figured you'd like that. Here's another chess playing drummer ....that's not Ginger Baker on the Ludwig, but Richard Starkey.
Celebs
1 Indian musician, & daughter of Necs Ceo were playing last year. But theyre not celebs.
Then, they left...
...got a life,
probably...
If U think U see real chic celebs, i want their passwords & email... :P
..hey, where did U guys keep Bad Bat girl? :/
I want my chess chicx-list already... :S
errrr...!
---via 0_x
Thanks, BG, but I knew it wasn't Ginger Baker 'cause he was beating on the drums and not Jack Bruce.
batgirl wrote:
TurboFish wrote:
So if you doubt that Washington played chess, then so do I.
I don't know that he did or didn't play. I'm just saying there is no proof, or even an indication - of which I'm aware - that he did play chess or even own a chess set.
http://www.chess.com/blog/billwall/us-presidents-who-played-chess
the google always knows... and it brought me back here!!
hmmmm, same guy wrote this years earlier... :
http://www.chess.com/article/view/us-presidents-and-chess
Sep 10, 2014
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#149
RecklessPat wrote:
batgirl wrote:
TurboFish wrote:
So if you doubt that Washington played chess, then so do I.
I don't know that he did or didn't play. I'm just saying there is no proof, or even an indication - of which I'm aware - that he did play chess or even own a chess set.
http://www.chess.com/blog/billwall/us-presidents-who-played-chess
and?
Vin Diesel plays Dungeons & Dragons...
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Sep 10, 2014
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#152
i suspect many non chess celebs would keep anon to have a bit of peace.
i think i just played Hou Yifan :O. so cool sometimes when do random seek and then u get a top player and you're like omg awesomeness omg. and try not to think how much more infinitely more accomplished your opponent is and just play chess. had one time on the 3 min. icc autopairing gm gm gm im gm paired up in succession, was looking for a nice quiet game testing a new interface at that moment, that was pretty tough.
Petrosianic wrote:
i suspect many non chess celebs would keep anon to have a bit of peace.
i think i just played Hou Yifan :O. so cool sometimes when do random seek and then u get a top player and you're like omg awesomeness omg. and try not to think how much more infinitely more accomplished your opponent is and just play chess. had one time on the 3 min. icc autopairing gm gm gm im gm paired up in succession, was looking for a nice quiet game testing a new interface at that moment, that was pretty tough.
Hehehehe, that's exactly how us amateurs feel when we play someone like you :)
Mathemagics wrote:
The real question is... "Who cares?"
exactly.... they eat poop and sleep like we do. Just have more money... lmao.... and better chcess boards.. ;-)
I played agaist Scarlett Johansson, she is tough, I have 0-4 record against her (if that's actually her): http://www.chess.com/members/view/sjohansson#games
Sep 11, 2014
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Mathemagics wrote:
Petrosianic wrote:
I can almost guarantee thats not Hou Yifan... Member since July, decided to use her real name
usually i'm quite skeptical of unconfirmed identities [i've played against many false identities including a few very funny ones, John Travolta etc] but i thought after playing her several games i saw signatures of her play that could be more than coincidence and my instincts are usually quite good. i study annotated games in my somewhat limited repertoire and her repertoire is rather similar to mine ... so having studied some of her games and familiar with some of her repertoire, what i was faced against stylistically, and where I had the most problems, it felt like i was playing her. obviously although it was 1 min. chess, whoever i played was definitely of a higher chess caliber on the whole, and there are many of those players but based on the way i was outplayed at moments that is my opinion. when somebody has a similar style to me but plays it better (uncommon), or knows the positions i play in it better (very common), i feel that very keenly. it's rare for someone to play a rather crazy sharp and distinctive style of chess that is like mine, but i know that hou yifan would a bit, anyway whoever i played played a lot like hou yifan in my noob opinion. so it's either her or a very strong chess player and tactician and ardent fan of her. true, i don't think she plays much internet chess, and if she does, then mostly anonymously, but this is common practice for strong titled players anyway. i'm sure i could have written that more succinctly. anyway, it's no big deal to me, but someday i expect we will know, hopefully she plays in a death match someday.
sleeping-beauty wrote:
Mathemagics wrote:
The real question is... "Who cares?"
exactly.... they eat poop and sleep like we do. Just have more money... lmao.... and better chcess boards.. ;-)
You eat poop?
neznaika2012 wrote:
I played agaist Scarlett Johansson, she is tough, I have 0-4 record against her (if that's actually her): http://www.chess.com/members/view/sjohansson#games
Well then, it must be her. And you must be Daniel Craig Esq. Pleased to meet you, Mr Bond. 
James Bond came out of the loo and a waitress asked him "Sir, shaken or stirred ?".
Sep 11, 2014
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#160
neznaika2012 wrote:
I played agaist Scarlett Johansson, she is tough, I have 0-4 record against her (if that's actually her): http://www.chess.com/members/view/sjohansson#games
Yep... that's her alright!
Of course she is not as famous as me 
I'm so famous that I don't accept friends requests. 
I play on here. I'm a celebrity.
I don't care if you're a celeb or not, but you're an Arsenal fan...Oh Yeeees!