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H Bogart 
 
Humphrey Bogart
Number of games in database: 4
Years covered: 1933 to 1952
Overall record: +2 -2 =0 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
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C01 French, Exchange (2 games)

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HUMPHREY BOGART
(born Dec-25-1899, died Jan-14-1957) United States of America

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Humphrey Deforest Bogart was born on the 25th of December 1899 near New York, USA. An actor and chess enthusiast he was also a fairly strong amateur player, as evidenced by his draw with Samuel Reshevsky in a simultaneous exhibition. He included a chess position from one of his correspondence games in his most famous movie, Casablanca, although the position was disturbed during shooting. He was a USCF tournament director and active in the California State Chess Association, and a frequent visitor to the Hollywood chess club. In 1945, he and his wife, Lauren Bacall, appeared on the cover of "Chess Review."

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Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. H Bogart vs NN 1-028 1933 USAA45 Queen's Pawn Game
2. H Bogart vs L Bacall 1-031 1951 ?C60 Ruy Lopez
3. P Limbos vs H Bogart 1-022 1951 AfricaC01 French, Exchange
4. Koltanowski vs H Bogart 1-041 1952 exib?C01 French, Exchange
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Dec-23-07
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  chancho: Casablanca, my favorite Bogart movie.
Hands down.
Dec-23-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: <Jim Bartle> You must remember this... a kiss is just a kiss... a sigh is just a sigh...
Dec-23-07   Jim Bartle: I'm shocked, shocked (!), to find there is gambling on this website.
Dec-23-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  norami: - Why did you come to chessgames.com?

- I came for the romance. The women.

- The women? What women? We're in a chess website!

- I was misinformed.

Dec-23-07   Jim Bartle: Of all the chessjoints in the world, she logs onto this one.
Dec-23-07   hovik2003: I am shocked by finding out that Bogart was a good chess player, and was bogarting his cigar over chessboard also, my respect grows more and more for him and his memory.
Dec-23-07
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  whiskeyrebel: I seem to remember reading he got Frank Sinatra interested in chess during the initial house party oriented incarnation of the "Ratpack". I also remember seeing a picture of Sinatra with Walter Browne. At any rate, my fave Bogie films are "the treasure of the Sierra Madre" and "High Sierra".
Dec-23-07   TIMER: Somehow I always think of Capablanca when I see Humphrey Bogart.. Casablanca is too similar a name- and similar time periods. Also both are classics.
Jan-03-08
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  Benzol: <madlydeeply> <So where is the Reshevsky draw?>

I don't know about it's authenticity but I found this score some time ago and I can't remember where. I've been meaning to post it earlier but other things kept cropping up.

Romanoff's Restaurant, Hollywood 1956.

Simultaneous

White : Samuel Reshevsky

Black : Humphrey Bogart

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.d4 f6 7.dxe5 fxg5 8.Qxd5 Qxd5 9.Bxd5 Be7 10.0-0 Bf5 11.c3 Nxe5 12.Bxb7 Rd8 13.Re1 0-0 14.Nd2 Bf6 15.Ne4 Bxe4 16.Bxe4 h6 17.Be3 a5 18.Bc5 Rfe8 19.Rad1 Kh8 20.Rxd8 Rxd8 21.Kf1 Ng4 22.h3 Ne5 23.Ke2 Nc4 24.Rd1 Rxd1 25.Kxd1 Nxb2+ 26.Kc2 Na4 27.Bd4 Bxd4 28.cxd4 1/2-1/2.

Aug-03-08   offramp: He is most famous for never ever passing on a stoogie.
Dec-13-08   wayndom: The position shown in the opening scenes of Casablanca is loaded with symbolism. Casablanca was part of occupied France; Bogart is sitting on the black side of the board, studying a position of the French defense. As he reaches to take the letters of transit from Peter Lorre, he knocks over the black king...
Dec-13-08
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  brankat: Bogart and L.Bacall were good fiends with GM S.Gligoric. He told me, years ago, that H.Bogart was a very capable player, who, had he chosen chess instead of acting, would have been a GM potential. These are Gligo's words. He should know.

Gligoric added that although they had never played a game, he got that impression while they were analyzing together some of Gligoric's games from 1953 Candidates Tournament.

Dec-13-08
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  whiskeyrebel: I'm very impressed that such a talented actor with a hot wife and such an active life found time for chess.
Dec-13-08   hackmate: In Casablanca, was it a real game or just a last minute scene filler Bogie requested?
Dec-13-08
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  Benzol: Heard one of Bogart's co-stars from "The Caine Mutiny" died today, Van Johnson aged 92.
Jan-30-09   blackburne: Article: Bogart and Chess (in spanish):

http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/04%2...

Various games and biography of Bogart.
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Jan-31-09   The Lone Banana: < hackmate: In Casablanca, was it a real game or just a last minute scene filler Bogie requested?>

Wikipedia claims it was from one of Bogie's own correspondence games AND that it was an addition that Bogie requested. Since the movie was rushed to release, it bids pretty fair that anything not in "Everybody Comes to Rick's" was last-minute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphr...

Here's a website that includes a still of the most famous pre-1968 cinematic chess game: http://www.idsnews.com/blogs/weeken... (In 1968, the chess game in "The Thomas Crown Affair" undoubtedly took first place. Who can forget Faye Dunaway distracting Steve McQueen by fondling her bishop?)

Mar-05-09
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  playground player: I guess the reason Bogart didn't like "Beat the Devil" was because the screenwriters let Jennifer Jones play chess instead of him. Seriously, any amateur who can last 41 moves with Koltanowski and force a draw with Reshevsky has got to be a bit more than an amateur.
Mar-05-09   Heidi44: Game on the web www.citicapa35@yk.uk.com
Bogart-Capablanca Havanna 1935
Aug-14-09   kronstieen1: maybe not now but someday you will understand how great bogey was weal always have chess
Sep-14-09   alshatranji: Great actor. But I have to say I find his surviving games rather unimppressive--though this is, admittedly a small sample.
Sep-14-09   kingfu: If Bogart is in the credits, see it. Bogart would hustle chess for 25 cents a game in New York during the depression. For all scifi geeks (which seems to correlate with chess) , you should see The Return of Doctor X which stars Humphrey. Who is the Bogart of today? Answer: Nobody. Who could be named Humphrey in 2009 and NOT get beat up?
Sep-14-09
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  HeMateMe: Did Bogie really hustle chess? Just wondering, what's your source for that? I don't put anyone above a little gambling, just didn't know if he was that strong a player.

An article I read about him said that "on a good day he played at master level..." but he may have been closer to expert level, in the long run. I remember reading stories about how actors like Henry Fonda, real stars of the day, were busking in times square, doing soft shoe routines, etc, and passing the hat.

Sep-14-09   kingfu: bogieonline.com was one place talking about it. I read it someplace else, although, it was not imdb. It was said that he got eating money by winning games on Times Square. Maybe he had his own table and pieces. I know there are tables with painted chess boards on them on the square in Washington Park in Greenwich Village ,as seen in Independence Day with Goldblum playing his father, played by Judd Hirsch. Bogie got a draw with Reshevsky, lost to Koltanowsky and maybe played Capablanca! I got a draw with Rossolimo, lost to Christiansen (badly) and never got to play Karpov!
Sep-14-09   kingfu: This is bizarre but true. After lunch today, my sister was cleaning out our hummingbird feeder. Bees go in there and get stuck or get too high on the sugar and do not make it out. While she was working , she got stung by a DEAD BEE!

"To Have and Have Not"

Eddie (Walter Brennan to Lauren Bacall) : "Was you ever stung by a dead bee?"

I always thought that was a funny line spoken by a drunk in the movie. My sister's finger looks like a squash!

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