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Falcon Chess. Game on an 8x10 board with a new piece: The Falcon. (10x8, Cells: 80) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝George Duke wrote on Tue, Nov 26, 2013 04:43 PM UTC:
Humphrey Bogart was Chess player with games recorded now at ChessGames,
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=65398.

The Maltese Falcon of 1941 movie has just sold November 2013:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/maltese-falcon-figurine-fetches-4-million-article-1.1529179,
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/11/maltese-falcon-bird-statuette-up-for-auction.html.

Bill Wall's Chess and Movies http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/movies.htm has Bogart playing Chess in all of 'Casablanca'(1942), 'Knock on Any Door'(1949), and 'Left Hand of God'(1955) films.  For Chess Variant, see 217 The Blood of Heroes.

http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/wall/art_01.htm -- his Bogart and Chess has shot of Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart at Chess in 'Casablanca'.