Beth Stern: Howard Stern Is A Chess Nerd



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Is being a chess nerd actually nerdy any more? Hasn't the rise of the Silicon Valley class made intellect once and for all cool? If even "geek-gossip" has its own cache, then why doesn't the geekiest of pass time -- chess -- operate operate at the margins of its own flavor (The Corsair lights a Cohiba Behike). Vladimir Nabokov -- the coolest postmodernist novelist and comparative literary critic ever -- was the ultimate chess nerd. And so is RZA, the coolest music arranger -- sorry, Quincy -- ever. Now, Howard Stern, the father of modern radio, is outed as having an unnatural love of the thinky boardgame that has its OK!Magazine:

"'He is a big teddy bear and an amazing father,' she says on The Morning Show With Mike & Juliet. 'He loves animals ... we share that passion. He’s sweet; he’s kind.'

"Something else you might not know about Howard? He's a geek!

"'He plays chess ... he’s a chess nerd!' Beth reveals. 'There’s nothing wild and crazy about my Howard. He’s a great husband…so far, so good.'"

Remember in 2006 when Stern, on the "I Hate Les Moonves Tour," described his feud over getting his old show tapes from Viacom as being a multidimensional chess game (Which, we cannot fail to note, he won) More here.