The Celebs Play Chess

Would Napoleon outmanoeuvre Boris Becker?
Would Jeffrey Archer be too devious for Pope Leo XIII?
And Steve Davis - would he bore Sting to bits?

If these questions keep you awake at night, you can start sleeping again.

Because over the next couple of months, Chess Addicts are bringing you the all-time, no expense spared, dead or alive, knock down and drag out, fantabulous celebrity chess tournament of the millennium.

With actual games played by all the above and many more (Humphrey Bogart, Aleister Crowley and Yehudi Menuhin to name but three) in... The Fantasy Team Championship of the Universe.

Coming to this website shortly!!

If you have the scores of any games by celebrities please drop us an email. If you believe any of our games to be spurious (there are many of them around), again drop us an email. And, if you ARE a celebrity who plays chess, please send us some of your games.

Here are the provisional teams. We reserve the right to change the teams, bring in substitutes and drop players for any (or no) reason.

THE HOLY 1. Ruy Lopez 2. Henrique Mecking 3. William Lombardy 4. Rev George MacDonnell 5. Rev John Owen 6. Pope Leo XIII THE SINNERS 1. Raymond Weinstein 2. Norman Whitaker 3. Claude Bloodgood 4. Aleister Crowley 5. Rev Harold Davidson 6. Jeffrey Archer THE INSTRUMENTALISTS 1. Mark Taimanov 2. Adolf Brodsky 3. David Oistrakh 4. Gregor Piatigorsky 5. Alexander Goldenweiser 6. Yehudi Menuhin THE COMPOSERS/CONDUCTORS 1. Francois-André Philidor 2. Ferenc Erkel 3. Sergei Prokofiev 4. Reginald Noel Johnson 5. Richard Strauss 6. Charles Hallé THE ARTISTS 1. Bernhard Horwitz 2. Henri Grob 3. Marcel Duchamp 4. Jack Redon 5. Barry Martin 6. Vicky THE WRITERS 1. Henry Buckle 2. Ivan Turgenev 3. Lord Dunsany 4. Count Leo Tolstoy 5. Thomas Bowdler 6. William Golding THE ENTERTAINERS 1. Humphrey Bogart 2. Dustin Diamond 3. William Windom 4. Sting 5. Roger Vadim 6. Woody Harrelson

THE SOCCER PLAYERS 1. Simen Agdestein 2. Vlastimil Jansa 3. Bela Soos 4. Torkil Nielsen 5. Charles Wreford Brown 6. Ossie Ardiles THE OTHER SPORTSMEN 1. Sir George Thomas 2. Alan Truscott 3. F Othmar Egger 4. Steve Davis 5. Vitaly Klitschko 6. Boris Becker THE SCIENTISTS/THINKERS 1. Andrei Markov 2. Paul Vinogradov 3. Prof John Cornforth 4. Sir Robert Robinson 5. Dr Jacob Bronowski 6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau THE CENTRE/RIGHT WINGERS 1. Marmaduke Wyvill 2. Andrew Bonar Law 3. Edmund Dell 4. Hans Frank 5. Lord Randolph Churchill 6. Jeremy Hanley THE LEFT WINGERS 1. Vitautis Landsbergis 2. Julius Silverman 3. Che Guevara 4. Nikolai Krilenko 5. Helmut Schmidt 6. Woodrow Wilson THE BUSINESSMEN 1. Ignaz Kolisch 2. Lothar Schmid 3. Terry Chapman 4. Baron Albert Rothschild 5. Jim Slater 6. John Spedan Lewis THE OTHERS 1. Prince Dadian of Mingrelia 2. Vitaly Sevastianov 3. George SA Wheatcroft 4. Graham Mitchell 5. Donald Woods 6. Napoleon Bonaparte