Separated at Birth

by Linda Keats and Graeme Cree


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It's not generally known, but many famous chess players had secret twins, that were separated from them at birth, and who went on to achieve fame of their own, though not in the chess world. Want some examples? Okay, how about...


Garry Kasparov
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Greg Brady




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Jose Capablanca
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Desi Arnaz




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Max Euwe
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Wally Cox




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Akiba Rubinstein
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Inspector Hercule Poirot




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David Bronstein
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Richard Deacon




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Bobby Fischer
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Eddie Haskell




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Tigran Petrosian
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Gene Hackman




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Paul Morphy
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Gainesborough's Blue Boy




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Boris Spassky
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Bobby Kennedy




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William Steinitz
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One of the Smith Brothers




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Anatoly Karpov
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Peter Lorre




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Vassily Smyslov
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Steve Allen




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Emanuel Lasker
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Ernie Kovacs




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Alexander Alekhine
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Dick York




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Bent Larsen
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Marlon Brando




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Mikhail Tal
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Paul Simon




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Francois Philidor
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George Washington




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Harry Pillsbury
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Jeremy Brett




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Isaac Kashdan
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Groucho Marx

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GM Sergei Rublevsky and Curly Howard!