Judith Polgar
Famous chess players?
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Paul KERES, the only chess player to be the idol of a whole nation (Estonia). Over 100,000 were in attendance at his state funeral in Tallinn, and he is also the only chess player to get his face printed on a banknote!
Alekhine
Anand, topalov,kamsky,kramnik,magnus calson
karpov,paul morphy
Everyone will probably do Bobby Fischer why not be different and do Borris Spassky the man he beat, he is a great guy and has lead a very interesting life. Good luck with it.
Paul Keres
He was an amazing player. Sure he was never World Champion but he had a plus record against Euwe and Tal and equal records against Smyslov, Petrosian, and Karpov. At one time or another he beat nine world champions from Capablanca through Fischer.
Salicrup,
Mohammed Al Wahib 1803-1887
I vote Polgar.
Tal
Mikhail Tal or Capablanca would be my choices, but Judit Polgar would be a good paper, as well.
As mentioned, I think Bobby Fischer would be of the most interest to any non-chess player.
morphy
jaller
What did you decide on? The most interesting personalities have got to be Fischer and Kasparov. I'm not even sure 90% of your class would know who anyone else is, even if you picked someone famous like Capablanca or Spassky.
Kasparov.
King Fischer
SALICRUP wrote:
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Statesman, philosopher, inventor, scientist, musician, economist
did he play chess??!!!!
dont think so
S3XFR3AK wrote:
SALICRUP wrote:
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Statesman, philosopher, inventor, scientist, musician, economist
did he play chess??!!!!
dont think so
You should check this out: http://www.angelfire.com/games5/chessodyssey/benfranklin.htm
[edit: and this: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:8-ZfH7VrEREJ:www.benfranklin300.org/_etc_pdf/Chess_John_McCrary.pdf+%22ben+franklin%22+chess&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us ]
Tal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!