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Humphrey Bogart: an expert at chess & an arbiter, besides a movie star
Humphrey Bogart: an expert at chess & an arbiter, besides a movie star
The link below shows a snippet of a scene from the 1942 movie Casablanca, where Humphrey Bogart's character Rick is pondering the moves for the black side of a position that can be reached from the French Defense. The board showed a position from a variation (i.e. the Chatard-Alekhine Attack) that Bogart himself was playing in a correspondence game in real life, at the time. Also, Bogart tried to include scenes about chess in films that he acted in, whenever he could, as well as choosing the positions (or moves) that were depicted in a chess game or scene that could only arise from moves that weren't nonsensical:
A Chessgames Biography about Bogart in the link that follows (which includes 4 of his chess games, a photo and a link to a wiki about Bogart, among other things) shows that he was an arbiter; also, one Google AI search result has shown me that Bogart was a remarkably strong amateur/tournament-level player (nearly master strength) who used to hustle chess for loose change in New York parks and Coney Island, before his acting career took off:
Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) was a multi-talented man, to be sure. 'Chess Life' magazine published an article about Bogart and other Hollywood people of the 1930s-1960s, who loved chess. Authors GM Arnold Denker and Larry Parr later included this material in their wonderful book 'The Bobby Fischer I Knew And Other Stories' (Hypermodern Press, 1995); I strongly recommend this book. IM Herman Steiner (1905-1955), a former U.S. champion, and a close friend of GM Denker, was the key chess instructor to the stars in southern California, from his home; Steiner has his own chapter in the Denker / Parr book.
Bogart was also a low handicap golfer. Golf and chess are my two sporting passions, as a player. So, between Bogart's chess, golf, and very fine acting, he is my favorite Hollywood star!!
Hi Kevin, good to see you posting. And hi Frank, this reminds me of some of our old conversations. The best chess rating I achieved was 1868 while the best handicap I reached in golf was 11. I have a grand total of two master scalps in chess while my best round of golf was a 76 on a par 72. Not in Bogie's league, and not in yours if I recall. Has there ever been a chess master who played scratch golf? Play it again Sam...
From a Facebook entry (via a Google AI search): "Humphrey Bogart did not have an official, modern Elo rating because he played before the modern rating systems were widely established. However, chess historians and experts estimate his strength to be in the 1900 to 2000 range (a strong Class A player to weak Expert), with some arguing he played near master level."
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
I believe Canada's own FM Ian Findlay may be the closest person I know who is both an internationally-titled Master at chess, and a near-scratch golfer. I think Ian's golf handicap has been in the range of 5, meaning he was scoring consistently in the mid-70s for 18 holes.
NM Paul Brown of Vancouver, older brother of my very good friend and golf mentor John M.A. Brown, played close to par golf during his peak years in the sport. John was a graduate of University of British Columbia, Chemical Engineering, class of 1973, whom I met when he started a job at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in Ontario that same year, and was living in Deep River, nearby. (Today the two towns have been amalgamated into present-day Deep River.) John played golf on the UBC team, represented Canada in the 1975 British Amateur Golf Championship, was Club Champion at the Deep River Golf Club (my best was second place in 1976, that year actually ahead of John!), and later represented New Brunswick on their Willingdon Cup team (annual interprovincial competition at the Canadian Amateur Championship). John was my hero when I was a junior golfer, and helped me a lot with my golf game; he is about seven years older than me. I met his brother Paul when he visited John in Deep River, and played a few quick chess games with him, when I was 17 or so. Paul was clearly a very strong chess player; John was somewhat the better golfer of the two brothers. I believe Paul, a 2 handicap golfer when I met him, had some success at the provincial level in golf in B.C.
My own peak chess rating is 2090 in early 2000, right when I started coaching future IM Raja Panjwani, when he was nine years old! In golf, I carried a handicap of 0 to 2 from the mid-1970s on, got as low as +3 in 1986 (that meant I was consistently breaking par). I represented Canada at the 1987 British Amateur Golf Championship. I was in the range of 1 to +1 from 1987 to 1989. Then, out of golf due to major health problems from 1990 to 1994, I got back to the 1 to +1 range from 1996 to 2016. These days, I am rehabbing a couple of injuries, and hope to get back to golf soon.
I find there is significant interplay between the two sports. Golf has helped me with chess, and vice versa!!
Here is a sweet insight into Humphrey Bogart, golfer.
From the book "Great Golf Stories", edited by Robert Trent Jones, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton, 1982:
"Humphrey Bogart, it may surprise you to know, was very nearly a scratch golfer. Once a journalist drinking buddy of his put this report down to side-of-the-mouth braggadocio. Bogey, who rarely made one, took his pal down to Tamarisk [in Palm Springs, California, and a former host course for PGA Tour events] and proceeded to rip off an impeccable 73 after not playing for two months."
By Jim Murray (award-winning sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times), from "Golf in Los Angeles: Part Royal and Ancient, Part Disney", pp. 94-95; copyright Golf Digest / Tennis, 1973.
Kevin wrote that Humphrey Bogart was an arbiter, as well as a player. He assisted with running the USA Championship match, spring 1946, in Los Angeles, between champion GM Arnold Denker and challenger IM Herman Steiner. [Note that FIDE titles assigned here were not official until FIDE developed its system in 1950.] GM Denker won, and was champion until GM Samuel Reshevsky won the 1946 USA Championship tournament, several months later in 1946. Bogart would also help to run friendly events involving Hollywood movie industry chess people. This info is from the great book by Denker and Parr referred to in my earlier posts.
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