Bogart's Chess Correspondence

Bogart's Chess Correspondence

Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart indulged his passion for chess by engaging in correspondence games with soldiers stationed overseas during World War II. However, in 1943, the FBI intervened, instructing him to cease this activity after intercepting his mail and mistaking the chess notations for coded messages.

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