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Bogart's a Tough Guy -- Even at Chess Board Sun, Aug 31, 1952 – 15 · The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) · Newspapers.com
Bogart's a Tough Guy--Even at Chess Board
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 30 (AP)—When screen tough guy Humphrey Bogart's not leveling a cold eye on a gangster and commanding “Okay Louie, drop the gun”—he plays chess.
And what's more the grim-faced Bogart is good at that genteel game, a chess champion who has taught top movie stars the “king of games” said today.
Herman Steiner, chess editor of the Los Angeles Times, scoffed at the popular notion that chess is a game for intellectual “long hairs.”
“Humphrey Bogart is the best player among my screen pupils,” Steiner told a reporter at the Southwest Open Chess Tournament that got under way here tonight.
Even Charles Boyer has taken time out from his film lovemaking to order kings and pawns around on the checkered square, Steiner said. So has Linda Darnell, he added.
Steiner, 1946 National Open Chess champion and National Absolute (invitational) champion from 1948 to 1951, is one of 80 players from 10 states in the tournament.
He said the same quality which permits Bogart to kill with the utmost of calm in a movie also makes him a top-notch chess player.
“That's how natural he is when sitting down to a highly competitive game of chess,” Steiner said. “Nothing fazes him.”
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