Oh, look at this, BradStone19 can't win an argument on a different thread, so he has to come over here, and start another argument. hy don't you ask macer why his trool of the month threads were deleted. Chess.com is soooo busy babysitting, they didn't have time to return membership money.
Which Chess player do you think there should be a movie about?
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Danny Trejo as Ruy Lopez! movie title "The Spanish Game"
Movie about a chess player?
First choice would be Pachman.
Second is the Sarwer siblings.
Third would be the Polgars.
electricpawn wrote:
1. Miguel Najdorf was playing a tournamnt in Argentina in Argentina in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and killed nearly all his extended family. He became a citizen of Argentina.
Good point. I think a good movie would be one not specifically about Najdorf, but instead one that follows several players who were at the 8th Chess Olympiad and their decisions whether to return home or not.
BradStone19 wrote:
Is she hot?
Kosteniuk? Very ^_^
John Malcovich as Mikhail Botvinik, Gary Sinise as Paul Keres! Movie title: "Of Pawns and Men"
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
BradStone19 wrote:
Is she hot?
Kosteniuk? Very ^_^
Yeah she's pretty cute. Bet guys lose a lot sheerly out of being too distracted by her...
Ben Stiller as Tigran Petrosian and Steve Buschimi as David Bronstein. Movie Title : "Crouching Tigran Hidden Scillian Dragon."
NomadicKnight wrote:
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
BradStone19 wrote:
Is she hot?
Kosteniuk? Very ^_^
Yeah she's pretty cute. Bet guys lose a lot sheerly out of being too distracted by her...
I find it interesting that I clearly cannot see what most guys seem to see. In spite of her modeling aspirations, I've always considered Konstenuik rather ordinary in appearance.
batgirl wrote:
NomadicKnight wrote:
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
BradStone19 wrote:
Is she hot?
Kosteniuk? Very ^_^
Yeah she's pretty cute. Bet guys lose a lot sheerly out of being too distracted by her...
I find it interesting that I clearly cannot see what most guys seem to see. In spite of her modeling aspirations, I've always considered Konstenuik rather ordinary in appearance.
+1
Attractve in the normal range.
The thing is, when an attractive female is on the tournament floor, it's like having a 2-headed sasquatch walk in--for those more closeted types.
The litmus test is "would I give her a second look on a bus"?
shes kinda hot for a chess player....the same phenomena occurs with sarah palin...shes kinda hot for her station...their not ugliness is somehow amplified by the lack of other acctactive women around them making them seem beautiful. thats not to say that there are not attractive women chess players, in fact i consider many of the top women players to be quite fetching, just a lack of "classicaly" beautiful women by pop culture standards. so the chess marketing people, in order to make their product seem sexy, pitch Kosteniuk (and irna krush and jennifer shade etc) as stereotypical "empowered but hot" women...
im getting a little off topic....but Judit is the hottest female to ever play chess IMHO
electricpawn wrote:
1. Miguel Najdorf was playing a tournamnt in Argentina in Argentina in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and killed nearly all his extended family. He became a citizen of Argentina.
2, Akiba Rubinstein was the top challenger to WC Emanual Lasker before WWI. A match never took place because of the war, and Rubinstein descended into madness. If someone came to visit, he wouls welcome that person, excuse himself and escape out a back window. He was notoriously late for his games, but he could beat vurtually anyone with only 30 minutes on his clock.
That's not mad. Everybody has done that, haven't they?
There are times I'd like to!
Johannes Zukertort
The life story of Paul Morphy would be awesome on film. The story of Kasparov's life and struggle to become world champion would also be a great film...
Eh, who really cares. There should be mandatory "reality checks" for most chess players to give them some perspective in life.
To wit: Chess isn't nearly as popular or important as 99% of the people here seem to think it is.
you're right. If you want to participate in a site where many people agree with you, I can suggest archiecomics.com or fredflintstone.com. You will likely find many people more your taste there. I invite you to those sites.