Marion Tinsley
American checkers player
Died when: 68 years 59 days (818 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) was an American mathematician and checkers player.He is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived.
Tinsley was world champion 1955–1958 and 1975–1991 and never lost a world championship match, and lost only seven games (two of them to the Chinook computer program, one of them drunk, one of them in a simultaneous exhibition) from 1950 until his death in 1995.
He withdrew from championship play during the years 1958–1975, relinquishing the title during that time.Derek Oldbury, sometimes considered the second-best player of all time, thought that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."