Where are the pages of statistics for smartletes?
January 22, 2009 9:09 AM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

There are lots of pages that display portraits of professional and amateur athletes next to their statistics. Where can I find portraits and statistics/rankings of the people who compete in more intellectual/less physical competitions? I'd love to see what the best (and not so great) chess, scrabble, and crosswords players look like.
posted by eisenkr to grab bag (6 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
Google image their name???
posted by HuronBob at 9:35 AM on January 22


I could do the Google image route for a few names, but I'm interested in seeing many photographs, not just one or two. I want to see whether people live up to their respective stereotypes.
posted by eisenkr at 9:50 AM on January 22


Not exactly what you asked for, but here's the top 100 list for the US Chess Federation, and here are pictures of some of them.
posted by MtDewd at 10:50 AM on January 22


The World Scrabble Championship is held every two years and was last held in 2007 in Mumbai (My dad participated! Whoo hoo!). The website for the championship has a page that lists each player along with their photo, their day job and past awards in tourneys. It is pretty fascinating.
posted by peacheater at 11:24 AM on January 22


gobase has a number of pictures of go players, from Abe Yoshiteru to Zhu Songli (and passing through Cho Chikun, Go Seigen, Michael Redmond, Takemiya Masaki, and many other well-known players). An essential resource for the go player.
posted by splice at 11:35 AM on January 22


If you haven't seen Wordplay yet, you definitely should. (Look under the tab for "the Players" on that site for portraits of five top crossword players.)
posted by Orinda at 4:02 PM on January 22


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