If You Could Go to Dinner with Any Chess Player, Who'd You Pick?

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Maybe Jeremy Silman.

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Levon Aronian is always laughing and so chill in post-game press conferences whether he wins or loses. That dude has to be a stoner. I'd definitely pick him.

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Is it just for dinner or...you know..  the other part.. 

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Shuloon wrote:

Levon Aronian is always laughing and so chill in post-game press conferences whether he wins or loses. That dude has to be a stoner. I'd definitely pick him.

Nils Grandelius would go halves on the post meal shisha pipe I reckon.

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BOBBY FISCHER he's the first ever 2700+ player ever, he was knowledgeable about sports like baseball, tennis etc, he had an interesting personality, was a genius with an 180 iq and had a sense of humor. I've read 3 of his biographies and he sounds the most interesting... I'd ask him about the 1972 championship and about Spassky. I'd also ask him how he got to be so good at a young age.

Second would be Garry Kasparov because he also has an 180 iq as well and was the first 2800 plus, that I know of. He also is politically active and Russia and we could discuss that at dinner too!

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#post 1 listed top 3, i can only think of two:

1) nezhmetdinov, rashid

on his life as a child, 

2) mir sultan khan

on his life as a servant,

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i wouldn't go to dinner with someone just because he/she is a chess player. i'd hate to talk about chess over a meal.

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you could just get a cheese sandwich takeaway.

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Does Miranda Kerr play chess?

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Because, Damn!

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Carmen Kass plays chess. She was Estonian chess federation president 👌
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i'd like to focus on my steak please ...

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going with Capablanca might not be a good idea, the restaurant would fill up with dogs and it would be a challenge to keep the skeleton upright on the chair.

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i'm with these guys

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batgirl wrote:

Maybe Jeremy Silman.

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Heck yeah!

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I'd pick someone who has an endless supply of stories and amusing anecdotes. Andrew Soltis and Jeremy Silman are the two that immediately come to mind.

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PlayChessPoorly wrote:
Tal! We would get smashed and battle eachother over lobster tail!

I was hoping to find that someone had picked the exact same person for the exact same reason as myself. Bravo! :')

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@stuzzi ohmegod

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ArchieBunker03 wrote:

Anna Rudolf. That girl is so fine lol.

+1

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Nobody seems to have mentioned najgrunfeld.

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Alisa Melikhina - Beautiful woman.

Boris Spassky - I met him way back in 1979.  He truley is a gentleman.

Enrico Sevillano - Any man you can sit at a pai gow table with until 7:30 in the morning, and the round starts at 9am, is all right in my book!