Stern and Chess

All Things Chess
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This is an old article I found on the baconlog blog (baconlog.blogspot.com). Not unheard of opinion.

HOWARD Stern has revealed why he ditched chess for photography.

“Chess was becoming an obsession. I felt that after three years as a hobby, I have reached pretty much where I was gonna go. In my dreams, I would start to see chess games. I said, ‘This is not good for me,’ so I took up photography,” he told US TV show Extra.

From: showbizspy.com/article/23539 … raphy.html

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I remember reading an article about that a few years ago. If I recall, he had a ~1700 ICC rating.

Anyway, that was a pretty decent rating considering he didn’t really formally study it until a few years ago.