I just like to play chess | Bono & Bob Dylan interview, 1984

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Daniel KramerBob Dylan Playing Chess, Woodstock, NY, 1964



Bono: Chess, do you play chess?
Dylan: Yeah, I play chess. Are you a chess player?
Bono: I am a chess player.
Dylan: I’m not that good actually.
Bono: I’ll challenge you to a game of chess.
Dylan: I don’t have it right now actually, I just don’t have one on me, but the next time you see me!
Bono: Oh, you can get these little ones you know, that you can carry around.
Dylan: Yeah, I take them on tour all the time, but nobody in the band will play me.
Bono: Really?
Dylan: Yeah, they say it’s an ego trip. They say I want to win, I don’t want to win, I just like to play.

Bono: What’s your opening game?
Dylan: My opening game, you mean king’s pawn up two – and all that? I don’t know.
Bono: You just takes it as it comes.
Dylan: Yeah. I don’t really play that seriously.
Bono: Well, I thought I did until I played Adam’s brother Sebastian – he was only about 13 years old and he beat me!
Dylan: Somebody may have a chess game here.
Bono: I’d love to play.

The Bono Vox interview, July 8, 1984. Published in the Irish music paper ‘Hot Press’

2 thoughts on “I just like to play chess | Bono & Bob Dylan interview, 1984

  1. I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

    -Mark Twain

    Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

    -Siegbert Tarrasch

    Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind

    -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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