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| Oct-13-04 | | dickweed: "Before becoming a movie star, Humphrey Bogart hustled strangers at 5-minute chess for 50 cents a game in chess parlors in New York Times Square. " (http://home.houston.rr.com/justches...) Man, words can't express my love for this guy, he is the coolest guy ever to be caught on film, casablanca ranks as my nr. 1 movie all time, and now I learn that he was a chess-hustler as well? Bogart, you're everything I ever want to be |
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Oct-13-04
 | | IMlday: Accordian Arnold Denker during the depression NY department store that couldn't sell much rented its display windows to lots of top players who played passersby at stakes of 10c. He recalled playing there one day when Bogart and Reshevsky were in the next windows. Then in Hollywood the question was whether Bogart or Sam Peckinpah were the best player. Peckinpah put a chess scene in Straw Dogs as I recall. |
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| Dec-20-04 | | leescrapinetti: http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/En... |
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Jan-08-05
 | | BishopBerkeley: I wonder if you've seen <SBC>'s collection of celebrity Chess games and/or images? http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBCh...
You will find games attributed to or Chess images of: John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Humphrey Bogart, Enrico Caruso,
Bill Gates, Leo Tolstoy, Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, H.H. Pope John Paul II, Oscar Wilde, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara,
Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, HAL 9000,
Richard Nixon, Lennox Lewis, Woodrow Wilson, Napoleon Bonaparte, & Robert Oppenheimer (among others). (: ♗B :) |
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| Jan-25-05 | | GufeldStudent: What was his rating (If anybody had to guess). |
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| Mar-27-05 | | Caissanist: I have seen several references to him being a "rated expert", in Chess Life and elsewhere, so I assume that it's true. However, the rating system used by the USCF in the 1950s was quite primitive. I wouldn't be surprised if his true strength was less than that. |
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| Jul-08-05 | | thesonicvision: "It turns out that Bogart was a very accomplished chess player as well. (Bogart's rating would probably be equivalent to modern 2100.)" -http://www.playjava.com/bogart_ches... |
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Aug-14-05
 | | TheAlchemist: He's one of my favorite actors and I especially loved him in Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Big Sleep. I have yet to see some other of his movies. |
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Aug-14-05
 | | chancho: See "The African Queen" Bogie got the Oscar for best actor in that movie. |
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Aug-14-05
 | | Sneaky: African Queen is an awesome movie, possibly the first "Romance-Adventure" movie ever. It's an absolute must-see. And color, too! |
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| Aug-14-05 | | molinov: <Bishop Berkeley> in the Oscar Wilde-Lasker game. Who is playing with black?. |
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| Sep-20-05 | | jester: The funniest part of "You ever get stung by a dead bee?" was Lauren Bacall's answer to Walter Brennan"s guestion. But I aint gonna tell ya what it was, go and rent the movie To Have and Have ♘ot you'll be damn glad you did. Good movie, good movie. |
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Nov-06-05
 | | James Demery: From Bogart and Bacall by Joe Hyams, " After the Crash of `29 Bogart was reduced to making eating money playing chess at the numerous "sportlands" on Sixth Avenue. For a bet of fifty cents a game he played all comers. Bogart was both a good chess player and hungry, and he won more than he lost. He soon landed a job at an arcade , where he sat in the window playing chess for a dollar a game. Most often he had only a doughnut and coffee for lunch." |
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Nov-06-05
| | James Demery: I like the French defense , but every time I see someone play it they lose , including Bogart twice . Is the French defense a bad defense? |
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| Nov-06-05 | | aw1988: It's... well, there are different branches of the French. No, certainly the defense is not bad, but in the Winawer say, White has very nice attacking possibilities... of course, Black has equally ferocious counterattacks, but the French gets none too good the reputation, which is a fallacy. The systems with 3...Nf6 and 3...dxe4 are more constrained. |
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| Apr-03-06 | | madlydeeply: So where is the Reshevsky draw?
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| Apr-03-06 | | madlydeeply: Treasure of the Sierra Madre was my Daddy's favorite Bogart Movie and therefore I believe that to be true to. Plus the book is awesome. Plus everything B. Traven and Ret Murat wrote. |
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| Apr-06-06 | | mobiegobie: I read the book. I liked it, a fast read, typical Hemingway...dont remember the "stung by the dead bee" question. More Hollywood embelishment?
Did Hemingway play chess? |
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| Apr-27-06 | | Marmot PFL: I heard John Wayne was a weak player, but he won quite a few games. The rumor was that you had to lose if you wanted to work on any more of his movies. I loved the Duke's movies though. (He was called the Duke cause he hated his real name, Marion, and had a dog named Duke). Bogart was great as good guy (Casablanca, Key Largo), bad guy (Sierra Madre), or crazy guy (Caine Mutiny). I liked the scene where he "geometrically proved" that the strawberries were stolen and strip searched the crew looking for the non-existent key. |
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| May-28-06 | | GufeldStudent: The game against his wife Bacall is strange. His other games show a much higher level of play, probably A player. Perhaps he played poorly on purpose because he did not want her to feel bad, afterall he missed the clear win of a pawn early in the game. |
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Sep-28-06
| | blazerdoodle: don't forget Key Largo, with the hurricane trapping him and Edward G. Robinson and a bunch of mobsters in some inn in Florida. He also starred as a few excellent bad guys. What was that film he did with Frederich March? That was an intense one. |
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Jan-08-07
| | chancho: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/dr... |
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| Jan-21-07 | | BadTemper: Bogie was born on January 23rd, 1899. Please correct this. |
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| Jan-21-07 | | michael104: I have no idea what the truth is regarding Bogie's birthday, but the following is from Wikipedia: "Bogart's birthday has been a subject of controversy. It was long believed that his birthday on Christmas Day, 1899, was a Warner Bros. fiction created to romanticise his background, and that he was really born on January 23, 1899, a date that appears in many references. However, this story is now considered baseless: although no birth certificate has ever been found, his birth notice did appear in a Boston newspaper in early January 1900, which supports the December 1899 date. In addition, the 1900 census for the household of Belmont Bogart lists his son Humphrey as having a birthdate in December of 1899. His last wife, actress Lauren Bacall, always maintained that December 25 was his true birth date." What is the basis for the claim that his birthday was January 23, 1899? |
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| Mar-12-07 | | AAAAron: Thanks Chancho.... say haven't I seen you before? |
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