Bono playing chess photo

[Jim]

I know you PLEBAns like your pictures so I thought I'd post this link. I've never seen it before, I'm sure you have already

The backround looks familiar to me, somewhere in Dublin? Windmill Lake?

http://www.skgiessen.de/movies/promis/bono.jpg

 

[Jim]

Windmill *LANE* I mean't to say!

 

[miss-U2]

i don't think it is in windmill lane well i have never seen this wall there before i will check very soon, and i will tell you

 

[Jim]

I think you're right, but it looks like someplace in Dublin..

 

[Green Light 711]

I heard Bono is a good chess player and beat old men when he was a kid??

 

[miss-U2]

geez, i have to play chess with him... i bet i can win

 

[FallingStar]

great pic.


yeah, he beat his father when he was a little one. *loves the man's big..knowledge of things*

 

[EPandAmerica]

I that photo!!!! The eyebrow and the arm


It does look like Dublin, and maybe the Zoo era.


I would love to lose a game of chess to Bono.

 

[faithingrace]

Strip Chess? (I know...bad, bad, bad girl!)

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Yep, that's a great picture. ...

I've never really played chess before, so I doubt I'd be very good-but I wouldn't mind playing the game with him. I think it could be fun.

Angela

 

[Niamh_Saoirse]

I have seen this pic before, but I had never notice the chess board!

 

[edge's girl]

kool pic, i personaly don't have the patience to play chess though my brother is very good and has tried to teach me to play

 

[najeena]

Strip chess?

 

[u2philly]

Bono playing chess very interesting

 

[faithingrace]

I ran across this in the RollingStone archives it is from March 1993 RS 651.

Bono is talking about his relationship with his dad:

"...I don't generally talk about my family, but another thing he did, he taught me chess. That's something I've never admitted to because it was always so uncool to be a chess player. It's the most un-rock & roll thing you could do, so I never ever talked about it, but that was actually my obsession before rock & roll. When I was a kid, I played in adult tournaments and played internationally when I a ten or eleven. Things like that were important moments for me. I really, really enjoy opera now, 'cause he used to listen to it all the time. He'd just kind of throw you something like that..."

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

I ran across this in the RollingStone archives it is from March 1993 RS 651.

Bono is talking about his relationship with his dad:

"...I don't generally talk about my family, but another thing he did, he taught me chess. That's something I've never admitted to because it was always so uncool to be a chess player. It's the most un-rock & roll thing you could do, so I never ever talked about it, but that was actually my obsession before rock & roll. When I was a kid, I played in adult tournaments and played internationally when I a ten or eleven. Things like that were important moments for me. I really, really enjoy opera now, 'cause he used to listen to it all the time. He'd just kind of throw you something like that..."

That's cool. I think that's great that his dad exposed him to all those kinds of things.

And I personally don't think his playing chess is uncool-I actually think it's cute. I mean, just get the image of him sitting there strategizing during this game in your head-I dunno, it's just a cute thought. .

Angela

 

[NameOfLove19]

Mmmmm, that's a sexy pic. Gotta love smart guys.

 

[Billie Midol]

I that photo!!!! The eyebrow and the arm

Yes, that eyebrow says so much!

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Gotta love smart guys.

Definitely. .

Angela

 

[kellyahern]

And I personally don't think his playing chess is uncool-I actually think it's cute. I mean, just get the image of him sitting there strategizing during this game in your head-I dunno, it's just a cute thought. .

Angela

I admire him for it. I wish I had the patience to learn chess. I used to know a little years ago, but I didn't play that much, so I remember nothing know

Oh, and that pic is amazing

 

[Inis]

Thanks Jim, for posting this great photo.

My husband Ted, taught our son Chris (when he was only eight), how to play chess.
And I have, so many happy memories of the two men, that I love the most, doing just this.

 

[celia]

Ohh I love playing Chess...Great picture

 

[Leeloo]

Bono is smart

 

[Keocmb]

I LOVE this photo. I love the jacket he's laying on, too. Guh.

 

[madonna's child]

I'd love to play him at strip chess, cause when I play chess I never use a strategy, I just try to get all the other guys pieces and then see what happens.

 

[babyman]

i challenge you, bono!