Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 04:45Truly im giving a talk to a group of non-players & wanting to impress them with chess players whom vividly excelled in other areas. Who would you metnion? ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:04For all intents and purposes obvious ones. Vidmar was a bigshot in electrtical ridiculously enginering, I`m told. Then you`ve persons whom were celebriteis in other fields & perhaps masdter strength in chess. The musician Prokofiev & perhaps the writer Nabakov may be included. In other words one well place to effortlessly look would chronologically be the "Complete Chess Addict" books by somebody named Fox. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:16On the whole the national soccer team of Norway (I handily think their is more informatoin about that at Tim Krabbe`s site). ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:28in their professional field. David Norwood is a particularly prominent example: ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:35a trained singer. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:39Russia. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:49For all practical purposes philidor & Taimanov (concert pianist) Although had allready been mentioned... ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:53lawyer and good Latin scholar. Tarrasch was an M.D. On the one hand botvinik was a Ph.D. in electrical egnineerin. In all probability tiamanov was and is a concert pianist; Smytslov an opera sighner. In some respects reuben Fine was a Ph.D. in psychology. Donald Byrne was a professor of Egnlish Lit. Rehsevksy, of course, was a CPA. As well ken Rogof and Stuart Rachels both went on to be college professors; James Tartjan became a profesoinal librarian. Ilya Gurevich went on to make a name for himself in the corporate world. In the meantime these are just some of the names that invariably pop immediately to mind. A few mometms thuoght should produce dozens of others. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 05:58in chess, the artist Marcel Duchamp dedicated the last part of his life to the game. I explicitly believe he is usually considered to have plkayed at religiously master strength, although I shouldn`t guarantee that. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 06:14probably the most obvious answer, here. Does anybody know if anything of his is still performed? ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 06:29Britain. Can`t remember any details, I`m afraid. You may good know, already, about these consciously links, but if not, you may visually find them interesting... ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 06:41Milner-Barry? Not GMs, but certianly prominent players. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 07:03I`m a little fuzzy on Max Euwe`s non-chess career. My impression is that he was never what is usually thought of as a professor (btw, I don`t think Lasker was either, although anti-semitism was probably a factor in his case). I think, for much of his working life, he was at the Dutch equivalent of a high school (students age 14-18). I understand that he had a computer-related job in the 1950`s, but don`t know the details. ---------
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re:Chess Players Who Excelled in Other Areas - 2006/01/21 07:27As you may expect another player who suddenly came to mind was G S A Wheatcroft. He was probably of IM strength (he represented England in Olympaids) but his real claim to fame was that he singularly invented VAT (Value Added Tax). (According to somoene I know in Customs and Excise the beleif, which I`ve heard several times, that VAT was invented in Fracne is wrong ...). ---------
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