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The picture shows Yoko Ono participating in a simultaneous chess games.
John Lennon and Ringo Starr were also good chess players and they have
participated in several events.
The list of celebrities that participate in simultaneous chess games is
quite extensive, including presidents, singers, actors, film directors,
scientists, etc.
Simultaneous blindfold chess games are seldom realized, especially those
with a relatively large number of participants, so the enthusiasts do whatever
they can to participate in such events. Humphrey Bogart was a great found
of blindfold chess and in 1952 he had the opportunity of playing such a
game against the world record holder George Koltaniwski. Woodrow Wilson
also had the opportunity to play blindfold chess against the world champion
Emanuel Lasker in 1901, and he participated in a simultaneous blindfold
chess tournament against Johannes Zukertort, in 1884.
John F. Kennedy played in several tournaments and there are many other
personalities that are regular competition players, like the Boxing world
champion Lennox Lewis, artist Marcel Duchamp and even it Pope John Paul
II (Karol Josif Wojtyla). In Brazil we had Machado de Assis, former-minister
Mário Henrique Simonsen and his wife Iluska (Iluska is ranked 7th
in ICCF's feminine world ranking), former-governor Mário Covas and
many other.
Therefore, simultaneous blindfold chess tournaments can give a big contribution
to the Chess Game divulgation in the media, given that an event with the
participation of several personalities from different areas will generate
a great focus of popular attention.
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