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Bill Wall's Wonderful World of Chess by Bill Wall Chess and other Occupations Not all chess masters are professional chess players. Some have other interesting occupations. Accountants and chess masters include Henry Bird, Samuel Reshevsky, and Frederick Yates. Chess players who knew how to fly airplanes include Ed Edmundson (he was a Lt Col in the USAF and navigator), Max Euwe, Harry Golombek and Carol Jarecki. Samuel Boden was an art critic and amateur painter. Marcel Duchamp was a renowned artist and one of the founders of Dadaism, surrealism, and cubism. Nathan Divinksy served as assistant dean of science at the University of British Columbia. His wife was the 19th Prime Minister of Canada. Gosta Stoltz was an automobile mechanic. Elliot Winslow gave up serious chess to become a professional backgammon player. Sir George Thomas was a professional badminton and tennis player (he once played at Wimbledon). Max Harmonist was a ballet dancer for the Royal Ballet. Bankers and chess masters include Bill Addison (Bank of America in San Francisco), Ossip Bernstein, Nick de Firmian, Ignatz Kolisch, Ken Rogoff, and Max Weiss. Esther Epstein is a Systems Manager for the Bio-Molecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University. Larry Evans is considered the best blackjack player of any Grandmaster. Lothar Schmid is a book publisher. Boxers include Arnold Denker (Golden Gloves) and Max Euwe. Irina Levitina gave up serious chess and became a professional bridge player. Arthur Dake was a bridge toll collector. Amos Burn was a cotton broker and sugar broker from Liverpool. Viacheslav Ragosin was a building engineer. Arnold Denker was a businessman in the meat packing industry and became a millionaire. Theo Van Scheltinga worked as a carpenter. Jonathan Tisdall is a chef. Edmar Mednis was a chemical engineer, then a stock broker. Civil servants and chess masters include Oldrigh Duras, Wilhelm Hanstein, Stuart Milner-Berry and Edward Sergeant. Members of the clergy include Bill Lombardy (former Catholic priest), George MacDonnell, Ruy Lopez, John Owen, Domenico Ponziani, Charles Ranken, Arthur Skipworth, and William Wayte. In his earlier years, Arthur Bisguier was a computer programmer at IBM and gave that up to become a professional chess player. Klaus Darga works as a computer programmer. Diane Savereide retired from chess to become a computer programmer for NASA. She is now a software developer in Los Angeles. Cryptographers included C.H.O'D Alexander, Reuben Fine, Harry Golombek, and Stuart Milner-Barry. Vincenzo Castaldi was a dentist. George Koltanowski was a diamond cutter. Diplomats include Jose Capablanca (Cuba), Max Judd (consul-general in Vienna), James Mortimer, and Tassilo von Lasa (Prussia). Jaroslav Sajtor worked for the diplomatic service in Czechoslovakia. Nikola Karaklajic was a disc jockey for Belgrade radio. Louis Paulsen established a distillery and was a tobacco farmer. Elijah Williams worked as a druggist. Economists and chess masters include Igor Bondarevsky, Ivan Farago, Gyozo Forintos, Aivars Gipslis, Yair Kraidman, and Ken Rogoff (chief economist at the world bank). Electrical engineers and masters include Mikhail Botvinnik and Vladimir Liberzon. John Watson has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Donald Byrne was an associate professor of English at Penn State. Grigory Levenfish was an engineer in the glass industry. Julio Granda-Zuniga is a farmer in Peru. Alexy Troitsky was a forester in Siberia. Bukhuti Gurgenidze is a geologist. Johann Berger was an Austrian high school administrator. Henry Buckle was a British historian and writer. Insurance salesmen include Al Horowitz, Issac Kashdan, Miguel Najdorf, and William Napier (vice-president of Scranton Life Insurance). Journalists and chess masters include Lajos Asztalos, Robert Byrne, Emil Diemer, Isaac Kashdan, Lubomir Kavalek, George Koltanowski, Mario Monticelli, Andy Soltis, and Boris Spassky. Richard Teichmann was a language teacher. Lawyers and chess masters include Gerald Abrahams, Alexander Alekhine, Rosendo Balinas, Curt von Bardeleben, Ossip Bernstein, Miroslav Filip, Johann Hjartarson, Paul Lipke, Paul Morphy (never practiced), Bill Martz (never practiced and became a car salesman instead), Meindert Niemeijer, Fredrik Olafsson, Julius Perlis, Harold Phillips, Domenico Ponziani, Folke Rogard, Alexander Rueb, James Sherwin, Saviely Tartakower, Karel Treybal (judge), Mijo Udovcic, and Daniel Yanofsky (mayor of a suburb of Winnipeg). James Tarjan gave up chess to become a librarian. Carl Ahlhausen was a librarian for the Berlin Chess Association. I.S. Turover founded a lumber and millwork company and became a millionaire. Paul Keres was once a professor of mathematics in Tallinn, Estonia. Mathematicians and chess players include C.H.O'D Alexander, Adolf Anderssen, Magdy Assem, George Atwood, Christoph Bandelow, John Beasley, Otto Blathy, Hans Boumeester, Nathan Divinsky, Noam Elkies, Arpad Elo, Max Euwe, Ed Formanek, William Hartston, Paul Keres, Martin Kreuzer, Emanuel Lasker, Anatoly Lein, Lev Loshinksi, Vladimir Makogonov, Geza Maroczy, Vania Mascioni, J. Mauldon, Jonathan Mestel, Walter Morris, John Nunn, Nick Patterson, Miodrag Petkovic, Ken Regan, Hans-Peter Rehm, Ken Rogoff, and Duncan Suttles. Mechanical engineers and chess masters include Kotov and Edward Lasker. Medical doctors and chess masters include Jana Bellin, Fedor Bogatirchuk (also professor of radiological anatomy), Karl Burger, Ricardo Calvo, Yona Kosashvili, Ariel Mengarini (psychiatrist), Joseph Platz, Helmut Pfleger, Christine Rosenfeld, Anthony Saidy (specializing in tuberculosis), Siegbert Tarrasch, and Johannes Zukertort. Milan Vukcevich was a professor of metallurgy and Chief Engineer at General Electric. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in chemistry. Lev Aronin was a meteorologist. Some served in the military. C.H. O'D Alexander was a British Colonel and code breaker. Tartakower was a Lieutenant in the French Underground during World War II. Johann Allgaier was a quartermaster in the Austrian army. Jose Araiza was the Mexican Champion from 1924 to 1949 and was a Lt. Colonel in the Mexican army. Paul Rudolf von Bilguer was an Army Lieutenant. John Cochrane was a lieutenant in the British navy. Alexander Deschapelles lost his right arm fighting the Prussians. Oldrich Duras served in the Austrio-Hungarian army during World War I. Svetozar Gligoric was considered one of Yugoslavia's best war heroes during World War II. Klaus Junge was a German Lieutenant and was shot and killed during World War II. Grigory Koshnitsky was an anti-tank gunner during World War II. George Mackenzie served as Captain in the Northern Army in the American Civil War. Gavriil Veresov was a Captain in the Russian Army. Eugene Znosko-Borovsky was wounded in the Russo-Japanese war and World War I. Musicians and chess masters include Armand Blackmar (music professor and music publisher), Hans Johner (director of the Zurich Philharmonic Orchestra), Philidor, Mark Taimanov (concert pianist), Eileen Tranmer, and Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (music critic). Jean Dufresne was a newspaper editor in Berlin. Painters include Samuel Boden, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Grob, Bernhard Horwitz. Irving Chernev was employed in the paper industry. Several chess masters have Ph.D. (doctorate) degrees. These include Lev Alburt (physics), Alexander Alekhine (law), Lajos Azstalos (philosophy), Gedeon Barcza (mathematics),Friedrich Baumbach (chemistry), Hans Berliner (computer science), Ludwig Bledow (mathematics), Viorel Bologan (physical culture?), Mikhail Botvinnik (electrical engineering), Leroy Dubeck (physics) Arpad Elo (physics), Max Euwe (mathematics), Miroslav Filip (jurisprudence), Reuben Fine (psychology), Robert Huebner (papyrology), Charles Kalme (mathematics), Danny Kopec (Machine Intelligence), Edward Lasker, Emanuel Lasker (mathematics), Neil McKelvie (chemistry), John Nunn (mathematics), Victor Palciauskas (physics), Jonathan Penrose (psychology), Ken Regan (mathematics), Ken Rogoff (economics), Alessandro Salvio, Eric Schiller (linguistics), Paul Schmidt (science), Tartakower (law), Milan Vidmar (electrical engineering), and Milan Vukcevich (chemistry). Robert Huebner worked as a papyrologist. Marmaduke Wyvill was a member of parliament in England. Alexander Kevitz was a pharmacist. Albert Sandrin was one of the world's best blind chess players. He was also a piano tuner. Miguel Najdorf was a porcelain importer. Josef Klinger gave up chess to become a professional poker player. Ken Smith was a professional poker player. Martin From was a prisoner inspector. Reuben Fine, during World War II, was a translator. He gave up chess to become a psychoanalyst. Nikolai Krogius was a sports psychologist. Kim Commons was a real estate agent. Henry Atkins, who won the British championship 9 times was a British schoolmaster. Howard Staunton was a Shakespeare scholar. Seaman included Arthur Dake and William Evans (ship captain). For a time, Grandmaster Simen Agdestein was also a professional soccer player. He now teaches soccer and chess at a sports gymnasium in Norway. Emil Schallopp was a stenographer. Ilya Gurevich became a stock exchange options trader. Ron Henley became a member of the American stock exchange. Larry Kaufman became a successful stock broker and trader. John Roycroft was a systems engineer for IBM for 26 years. Taxi drivers include Victor Frias and Nicolas Rossolimo. Vlastimil Hort worked for a general-interest magazine as a translator. Walter Korn directed the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Administration after World War II, helping relocate concentration camp survivors. Sir Philip Milner-Barry became Under-Secretary of the Treasury in England. Geza Maroczy was a waterworks engineer. Fred Reinfeld was a prolific writer. Bill Walls Wonderful World of Chess
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