Marilyn Monroe was a [[chess]] player who even invested in an expensive gold and silver set of chess pieces, and received a gift of a chess board and pieces from a friend who apparently knew about her likeness of the game. In addition, her psychiatrist wrote that she played some chess two months prior to her unexpected death.<ref>Jay Margolis, ''Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder'', at p.113.</ref> It is also observed that learned and was playing chess in 1956 in the year that she married Arthur Miller.<ref>See Erskine Johnson, Redlands Daily Facts (newspaper), Feb 26, 1960.</ref> | Marilyn Monroe was a [[chess]] player who even invested in an expensive gold and silver set of chess pieces, and received a gift of a chess board and pieces from a friend who apparently knew about her likeness of the game. In addition, her psychiatrist wrote that she played some chess two months prior to her unexpected death.<ref>Jay Margolis, ''Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder'', at p.113.</ref> It is also observed that learned and was playing chess in 1956 in the year that she married Arthur Miller.<ref>See Erskine Johnson, Redlands Daily Facts (newspaper), Feb 26, 1960.</ref> |