Fun Chess Facts

By Rod Whitlatch

According to the link below, these famous people not only were avid chess players, but established the following ratings.  I'm not sure why, but leftist dictators and revolutionaries seem to be unusually good chess players.

http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/famous.htm

Alan Alda (actor)        1400 rating

Humphrey Bogart             1900 rating

Nicholas Cage (actor)        1500 rating

Fidel Castro (dictator)        1900 rating

Charlie Chaplin (actor)        1400 rating

Ray Charles (musician)       1600 rating

Che Guevara (revolutionary)    1950 rating

Ted Danson (actor)            1400 rating

Peter Falk (actor)                1400 rating

Al Jolson (musician)            1600 rating

Henry Kissinger (politician)    1400 rating

Vladimir Lenin (Russian dictator)     1900 rating

David Letterman (talk show)    1100 rating

Jerry Matthers (the Beaver)    1400 rating

George Pataki (NY Governor)    1100 rating

Arnold Schwarzenenegger    1500 rating

Jimmy Stewart (actor)        1300 rating

John Wayne (actor)            1200 rating