Have you ever heard of a chess player rated over 2000 commit a crime of any type

Sir, you are an utter baffoon!

It's amazing how easily you guys are trolled.

Either way, the guy is a baffon.

Norman Whittaker was a master swindler on the international level

Larry Evans was a kleptomaniac.

I may have read that Harry Nelson Pillsbury was a necrophiliac ! Wait, is that illegal ? ??

i counted from the begining including allegedly mentioned fischer and kasparov and it makes 16 criminals......is it much for a pool of perhaps 150-200 thousand players throughout history among over 2000 rated people...

We don't know of all the criminal behavior of chess players or any other group.

Euwe carried a gun with him as a young man, when going to his chess club. That's illegal in the Netherlands and therefore "a crime of any type" as the OP demanded in his FP.

Euwe never used his gun; he probably felt safer with it when walking the long way back from his chess club to his parental home.

Anecdote is from Hans Ree. "I was so surprised that I didn't dare to ask any questions". Schitterend Schaak, p. 200.

Yea yea,Keep talking what you're talking and maybe we'll know what you're trying to talk about.

No, they didn't eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge...

i am talking on some facts...e.g : it is estimated that about 10-12 percent of all the human population in the world (including all nations) consist of psycopaths excluding potential criminals.......so really i am delightfull to see that this ratio is way way to low among really good chess players.....

these psycopaths and plus potential criminals which make up about 30 percent of the whole human population is a fact......innocent people may be harmed  by them any time....the suffering of our planet is mostly due to this fact...we are living in a dangerous world therefore......but on the other hand as i said this ratio is way too low among really good chess players and it is likely that you are in good company if you are with them...

Really?  Euwe was a giant and a boxer.  Maybe he was after an easy meal with the firearm rather than using it for protection?

@bigpoison: I hadn't thought of that. But it might be a posibillity, especially around 1930 with the economic crisis going on. When I walk back from my chess club I usually encounter a swine or two. Don't have a gun though.

Why is everybody feeding the spammer.  All the OP is looking to do is build a reaction from the other users by stereotyping, saying that 2000+ players are all "good boys" that never break the law, and discriminates against Muslims.  The OP is an utter moron and nothing more!  Any chess player with half a brain should know whether a world champion has broken the law.  It's not like he was some Average Joe American rated 2100 that people outside the country wouldn't know of.  You think I don't know who Kasparov, Karpov, or Carlsen are simply because they aren't from my home continent?  I'd have to live under a rock for that to be the case, so if the OP has never heard of Bobby Fischer or his problems with the law, clearly the OP lives under a rock! 

Alexander Roschal was a gunslinger, according to Ree. He and Petrosian were the founders of the Russian chess magazine 64. Roschal accompanied Karpov during his tour in Italy, 1975. Ree is not clear what happened, but Roschal must have used his gun during that tour, in Il Ciocco. Wherever thAt is.

Well, considering that 95% of all criminal acts are never witnessed or prosecuted, yea, I consider that 'much'

Resign or I shoot.

Good god, 30% criminal or otherwise psychopaths?  You realize that that is higher than the estimated number of people who will ever experience mental illness.

1% reach expert level and that is from a population of chess players that make up maybe 0.5% of the world's population.  You have been given ample examples of players over 2000 committing crimes AND getting caught.  Your premise that strong chess players do not commit crimes is obviously false. 

What your overly simple question and subsequent stubbornness fail to take into account is other relevant factors the greatest being socio-economic status.  A quick look at the top rating lists in North America show a disproportionate representation by immigrant or 1st generations.  Canada's list shows the city of residence.  Only 5 of the top 20 come from major urban centres where poverty may be better represented.  Of those 5 only one has a Anglo-Saxon name which leads me to believe that they are all at least middle to upper middle class which also is typically is a group less likely to be involved in head line grabbing crime.

Strong players usually learn from strong players and then are nurtured through coaching and tournament play.  First exposure usually comes from fathers or schools.  That indicates that the father is present and educated enough to play or the school has to be 'good enough' to have a chess program.  There are outliers (Fischer, Brooklyn) but for statistical purposes I believe there are a number of conditions including financial that must be set to nurture a strong chess player.  These conditions also tend to remove the conditions that would promote criminal activity.  There may be a weak correlation but one does not become less of a criminal or less criminally insane through stronger play.

I reckon everyone on death row is an undiscovered IM who was simply not given the opportunity to spread their wings on the chess board.