Connection Combat: CheckMate - Bobby Fischer vs. Ben Kinglsey

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Hi Connectors (and anyone else interested!), 

This month's Connection Combat is a battle of the board, chess board, that is.  It's Bobby Fischer vs. Ben Kingsley.

Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time.

Ben Kingsley is an English actor with a career spanning over 40 years, during which he has won an OscarGrammyBAFTA, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, Ben Kingsley plays Bruce Pandolfini, the coach who tries to teach the young boy in the movie to play chess as aggressively as Bobby Fischer.

Bobby Fischer

and

Ben Kingsley

Ready, set, go!

The rules and guidelines are here, and post in this thread once you've made a connection so we can declare a winner! 

Remember, the goal is to connect one of these individuals to the previous month's winner -  Ayn Rand.

If you need to be added to a Trusted List, let me know and I will add you.

The winning profile will be featured as one of our Special Connections (like Queen Elizabeth II and Kevin Bacon) so members can have a chance to see how they are connected.

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in The Tree House by Eowyn Walker G2G Astronaut (2.5m points)
Appears the father is not known for certain - https://www.chess.com/article/view/who-was-fischers-father
Added Bobby Fischer's obituary and a New world Encyclopedia story about him
Thanks!
You're welcome!

1 Answer

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Found a connection through Ben Kingsley's first wife. Sources used were all Wikipedia articles so I'll work on better sourcing.
by Jamie Nelson G2G6 Pilot (640k points)

These connections run and run.  Here's one to follow up

http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mackenzie/913/

 

Thanks for the lead, Virginia's father Terrence McKenna was also connected to the tree.
Awesome work!!

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