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- From: ekw@world.std.com (Elliott C Winslow)
- Subject: Re: Steve Martin: Fischer fan
- Message-ID: <C03vMB.H76@world.std.com>
- Summary: He was at K-K in NYC
- Sender: Elliott Winslow IM
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1hqqb0INNej7@agate.berkeley.edu> <2645@rwzl01.zld.rws.nl>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:10:59 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <2645@rwzl01.zld.rws.nl>
- hoffmann@rwzl01.zld.rws.nl (Rob Hoffmann) writes:
- >In article <1hqqb0INNej7@agate.berkeley.edu>
- >jeff@emily10.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely) writes:
- >> The San Francisco Chronicle tells me that Steve Martin, in an interview in
- >> Playboy, admits to having asked for only three autographs in his entire life.
- >> One of the three was Bobby Fischer, whom he calls " a legendary genius."
- >
- >Allright, but does Steve Martin play a decent game of chess?
-
- He showed up at the Kasparov-Karpov match in New York, following the game in
- the audience. But I don't think he made it to the press room.
-
- And note, if you have access, the story by Gary Simms in the next-to-last or
- so copy of Texas Knights, about getting a call to be a "chess consultant" in
- Leap of Faith. If pressed, I'd find it and post excerpts...
-
- --elliott
-