On the Howard Stern show today, Howard talked about chess for approximately 10-15 minutes.
One of the topics was the bathroom fiasco at the recent World Chess Championship match between Topalov and Kramnik. He and Robin made fun of the players and their behaviors. Howard also talked about playing on ICC. In addition, Howard talked about me and my chess center. He wants to visit the Polgar Chess Center and hang out.
Howard said he wants to improve his chess skills and he indicated that his online rating is about 1350. He does not like blitz. He prefers longer games.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I wonder what his ICC name is.
this is too funny 🙂 i use to watch his show on E! all the time when i was a teenager, it was hilarious.
I heard HS likes chess, and after he mentioned he likes chess on his show, I heard a GM called Gary (babba-booey) and offerred tutoring. And I think Gary said it was a female GM. I immediately thought Polgar!
I bet Susan is tutoring Stern (when she is not in Texas, blogging, etc, etc…)
HS can be great for chess. He has sirius money! And a radio show.
Why don’t we have Rapid or Blitz chess on Television in the US? It’s more exciting than Poker and Golf if you ask me. Tournements and Matches are a bit long, and perhaps do not make for great television. But some speed chess might hold some interest.
For heaven’s sake… there are spelling B’s on ESPN. Let’s get chess televised! Please!
Howard will bring strippers to chess.
It figures something involving bathrooms would get Howard involved. 🙂
On a Chess and celebrities note, Lavar Arrington of the New York Giants was knocked out of tonight’s game with an injury that may cost him the rest of the season. Lavar’s an avid Chess player, from what I’ve read, so now he has time to catch up on his game. :/
“He and Robin made fun of the players and their behaviors.”
and
“He wants to visit the Polgar Chess Center and hang out.”
I think you run a real risk that he will find something unpleasant to make fun of.
I just hope he is on the up and up here… mostly these guys are always on the look out for material for their shows, and from the few shows I watched, he likes to poke around in the gutter.
I think Howard Stern really likes chess. I wish someone could find out his ICC handle so we could play with Howard!
Howard Stern is no family/child-friendly material.
The girls’ parents will stop sending their kids to the center if Howard hang out at the Center.
From what everyone says, Howard is a really nice guy off the air. I’m sure he’d be respectful if he visited. I’m a huge Howard fan, and a huge chess fan. I love to hear him talk about chess, and congrats on the plug.
Promoting chess together with Howard Stern !!
Although you are of Hungarian origin, you were quick to delve deep into American culture (if it can be called as a culture).
Next time you should try promoting chess either together with an Elvis imposter or at Jerry Springer show.
Way to go Susan.
>>On the Howard Stern show today, Howard talked about chess for approximately 10-15 minutes.
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And in that time, he made approximatly 17-22 jokes about “chest players”, giggling all the time.
Susan,
Be careful with Howard. If you go on-air with him live, you may find yourself in some very embarrasing situation(s). He is entertaining to many, but not in a “chess style”.
Gabor
Another celebrity who talks about chess on his radio/TV show is Don Imus of “Imus in the Morning” on MSNBC every day.
Face it Howard, you’re all fluff and chitzpah…why not take up some craft more your speed like erotic toys…
Yeah, Howard Stern is a bad influence with very little morals, but Danailov, Gijssen, and all chess grandmasters are model citizens.
Beware of those casting the first stones…
Howard Stern before his makeover:
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Stern is living proof that petrocks were not a fluke (you can sell anything to the herd, it’s all in the packaging).
schlock and schlock and schlock and schlock
HS likes chess?
Well, I used to like radio, too.
Why Howard Stern? If you want to creat shock amd make national headlines just do something equally stupid (but by today’s standards or lack-therof newsworthy) like strip off all your clothes and go running through Congress or something…
More on (wink, more-on, wink wink) the old shock them (or insult them) till they give in (Stern) strategy:
While your running through Congress nude (and making national media and fame) just claim that you were doing it to bring attention to chess—and the good that it does america’s youth.
Howard Stern’s show may not be “family/child-friendly”, but so what? Don’t listen if you don’t want to. Off the air Howard is known as a gentleman.
As for him supposedly making fun of chess players, he mostly makes fun of himself. At least he has a sense of humor about himself, unlike the fuddy duddies complaining about him all the time.
I am disgusted to find Howard Stern contaminating this website that encourages involvement in chess for young women and children. Stern is a vile, foul-mouthed verbal-abuser of not only women. His streaming filth appeals only to the lowest sub-moronic mentality. To say that he is a “gentleman off the air” is desperately lame. So this scumbag plays chess, so what?!
I play and i listen. To say he caters to the lowest common denominator is false. He’s not liked by many, but he is enjoyed by many more. Just my two cents.
“I play and I listen. To say he caters to the lowest common denominator is false. He’s not liked by many, but he is enjoyed by many more.”
Ahh…but are you laughing with Howard AT people and their foibles (casting yourself in a superior role, and therefore displaying your own egoism), or does your attitude more closely mimic “We all live in a yellow submarine (Beatles)”?
HS caters to ONE the lowest common denominators in people. At best, he can only claim to be “one of many”. Just my dollar-three-eighty.
For all you Churchill fans, some WC quotations:
1. I like a man who grins when he fights.
2. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
3. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
4. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
5. The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.
6. It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
7. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
8. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
9. The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
10. Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.
11. “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
More great Churchillisms:
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.”
“There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.”
“It’s a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
“The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.”
“I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
“The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”
“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”
“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.'”
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the ‘worst’ form of Government, except all those others that have been tried from time to time.”
While campaigning in 1900, young Churchill was approached by a man who exclaimed to him: “Vote for you? Why, I’d rather vote for the Devil!.” “I understand” said Churchill. “But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?”
Churchill on the code breakers of Bletchley Park: “They were the geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled.”
An exchange of Telegrams between Churchill and George Bernard Shaw: Shaw: “Two tickets reserved for you, first night Pygmalion. Bring a friend, if you have one.” Churchill: “Cannot make first night. Will come to second night. If you have one.”
Churchill proposing a toast to the Soviet leader at the Yalta conference in 1945: “To Premier Stalin, whose foreign policy manifests a desire for peace.” Then in a whispered aside out of the interpreter’s hearing: “A piece of Poland, a piece of Hungary, a piece of Romania…”
Nancy Astor to Churchill during one of their many arguments “If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee.” Churchill: “Nancy, if you were my wife I would drink it.”
When asked to name the chief qualification a politician should have. “It’s the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year — and to explain afterward why it didn’t happen.”
“If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter…”
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time–a tremendous whack.”
“If you’re going through hell…keep going.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
“For myself, I am an optimist–it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.”
“I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.”
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.”
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”
😉 😉 😉
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind — not with it.”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
HS is often misunderstood. Good rule to follow is not to be friends with people who rant about Stern. They are usually annoying, hypocritical and have no sense of humor.
Listen to him, or not, your choice. Don’t call people who do names. People hate sanctimonius preachers.
HS is often two-faced. He chastices/targets anyone he chooses based soley upon rumor without proof or restraint, yet he then pretends to be Mr. chean and virtue in private. This is called living a double standard.
To blindly label someone whose character you know not for pointing out this, truly only reinforces your own prejudice, insincerity, and childish banter, rather than demonstrating anything constructive about Mr. Stern.
Good rule to follow is to weigh each individual and circumstance based upon its own merits or lack thereof, and then move forward in life. Give no voice to those that deflect criticism by changing the subject by attacking the questioner.
fascinating how the Stern bashers prove the point that they have no sense of humor…
Stern lives a double standard? What about Rush Limbaugh, the 3 times divorced, draft dodging, pill popping, attacker of Parkison’s Disease sufferers? Rush is the poster boy for hypocrisy.
But I suppose it would be OK if he played chess…
” Anonymous said…
Howard will bring strippers to chess. “
Finally! Some good looking women in chess. Howard, what took you so long?
I just want to say i find it so funny that so many people are leaving negative comments about Howard. Why must everyone be so uptight and stiff. I would dare to say that nearly all those who bash stern never even listen to him. If you listened you would truly see how smart and interesting Howard and the rest of the people on his show really are. In closing, I am so sick of people telling other people how bad he is without even having enough experience with the show to pass judgement. The problem with this country is that no one loosens up and just admits to themselves that issues such as what Howard speaks of are truly humorous and do make people laugh, it’s just that too many people can’t let themselves go. On the other hand, those who have left positive messages pertaining to Howard, thank you. It only takes a few people to get others sparked to find out what all the fuss is about.
HS is often two-faced. He chastices/targets anyone he chooses based soley upon rumor without proof or restraint, yet he then pretends to be Mr. chean and virtue in private. This is called living a double standard.
Considering what he does is an act/show, what must have D. H. Lawrence’s private life have been like? He must have been philanderer to the nth degree, right? Those nude people in the Broadway production of Hair. They must be disgusting people in private life….
I don’t think I need to go further.
But I can.
You need to get over yourself and loosen up more than a little.
I have included a link to the audio at my blog here. For those Stern nay-sayers, give it a listen: this is more representative of the show than all the strippers they show on the TV show.
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Howard is a true fan of the game. Not to mention that he is the best celebrity interviewer in the world. No other interviewer comes close to getting stars to reveal the things that Howard does, period.
Just a mention by him will likely increase the popularity of chess in the United States. A lot of uptight people, who have usually never listened to his show, condemn him based on what they hear in the right wing media. Howard is about more than strippers. The Stern Show discusses everything from hard news, to Broadway shows, to television, to strippers, and yes, even chess.
He’s a guy of such incredible popularity that rock stars cow-tow to him. I bet that whoever owns ICC isn’t complaining that Howard has made it known that he plays there.
Joe Stalin loved chess too.
No wonder ICC is recently plagued with an epidemic of boorish unconscious incompetent guest players. They start at ICC with an inflated rating, get consistently crushed, and end-up rated around 1,000 before their guest account expires. These Stern loving miscreants love to talk smack. Not funny smack but the boorish and surly type. They are skilled in one-tactic, the abort game just a move or two before the culmination of another crushing defeat.
Before Stern, experience with this type of behavior on ICC was a rarity. Now, it is the regrettable norm. I have logged over 24k games in 10 years time and know this – ICC was much better before Stern’s promotion. The ICC community is poisoned through this unfortunate association with the great game of chess. I doubt few Sternites convert their guest accounts into full-time paying members.
Here is to Stern advocating the lottery or slot-machines instead of chess.
“The ICC community is poisoned through this unfortunate association with the great game of chess.”
Wahhhh, I’m a chess snob wallowing in obscurity, who can’t accept that a diverse range of people might be attracted to the game by Howard’s promotion of it.
Why don’t you send the management of ICC an ultimatum stating that either Stern goes or you go… And, good luck in your search for a new online chess venue.
It’s not a surprise that so many Chess Intellectuals actually do not know much about anything other than chess. One of the best players of all time, Bobby Fischer, was a chess genius, but anyone who listens to his anti-semitic, anti-U.S. rants knows better. I’ve been a fan of Howard for over 20 years, and I’ve NEVER heard a negative comment about him that came from someone that actually listened enough to be qualified.
It’s not a surprise that so many Chess Intellectuals actually do not know much about anything other than chess. One of the best players of all time, Bobby Fischer, was a chess genius, but anyone who listens to his anti-semitic, anti-U.S. rants knows better. I’ve been a fan of Howard for over 20 years, and I’ve NEVER heard a negative comment about him that came from someone that actually listened enough to be qualified.
Really, most of us are social Bobby Fischers? As for me – I am no Bobby Fischer, that is certain. My many interests include the game of chess. As for me, Stern is a tactless form of Rush Limbaugh. I have listened to his show and find it predictably offensive. Find any topical sewer and Stern’s vitriol spewing big mouth is already there. Were Stern paid by ICC for endorsements, my membership would lapse. ICC is the best. Too bad ICC is sullied by the Stern connection.