If you know list here any chess film or ducumentary
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HI, Grandbrother, three scans from reference books, The Batford Chess Encyclopedia by Nathan Divinsky, The even more complete chess addict by Mike Fox and Richard James and the Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
It gives you a beginning of your list with picture movies, films and cinema information. Please react when I can help you any further !
@ Happy Ungulate : my thanks as well !
RomyGer wrote:
@ Happy Ungulate : my thanks as well !
My pleasure. I've added the books you listed to the article on wikipedia.
I have been off work ill for a couple of days so I have watched quite a few this week. There is quite an old thread here on chess.com that lists some good ones.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-documentaries
I watched all the ones on this list. 'Men Who Would be Kings' was really quite good. It focuses on Washington Square Park and the chess that is played there. Some really good players and odd characters. It was really interesting.
'Kasparov and the Machine' was also very good. It is interesting to see a bit behind the scenes and see what everyone was thinking during the matches. Including lots of interviews with Kasparov and the IBM team responsible for Deep Blue.
This one isn't on the list in that thread, but was also very good -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVcpelqT_Dw
It is about 2hrs 45mins long and is all about the Kasparov vs Karpov 1990 World Championship games. Plenty of interviews with both, as well as analysing their moves with the players themselves and finding out what they were thinking at the time. The sound quality is a bit rubbish to begin with but improves alot around 5-10mins in so stick with it before deciding it is unwatchable.
And everybody should watch YouTube " Scacchi Clay Stop Motion - Chess Clay Stop Motion " , by Riccardo Crocetta , 1 video, 1:58 minute, already see 1.165.487 times, very special film !
RomyGer wrote:
HI, Grandbrother, three scans from reference books, The Batford Chess Encyclopedia by Nathan Divinsky, The even more complete chess addict by Mike Fox and Richard James and the Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld.
It gives you a beginning of your list with picture movies, films and cinema information. Please react when I can help you any further !
Wow, thank RomyGer for contributing to this valuable piece of forum that searched for chess in the media!
I was away and just seen them thoroughly
Thanks again
Knight Moves (1992)
An American thriller, muder-mystery taking place at a grandmaster chess tournament.
The documentary Horatio's Drive (about driving across the United States by in the early days of automobiles) has a scene in the beginning with a chess set. The board is oriented incorrectly, of course. See "Getting It Wrong": http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2012/05/getting-it-wrong.html
'The Knights of Brooklyn' wasn't too bad as a chess movie. Ted Danson is a teacher who tries to get his school interested in chess....they win stuff...everyone loves them...and so on.
Just the usualy happy ending type of film but it's alright if you have a little time to kill. I think it is also based on a true story.
Queen to Play. Recent French film (English subs) starring Kevin Kline. Interesting characters, beautiful scenery of Corsica, shows joys and frustrations of learning & competing in chess and following your passion. Great scene where 2 main characters play moves without a chess board.
Genghiskhant wrote:
'The Knights of Brooklyn' wasn't too bad as a chess movie. Ted Danson is a teacher who tries to get his school interested in chess....they win stuff...everyone loves them...and so on.
Just the usualy happy ending type of film but it's alright if you have a little time to kill. I think it is also based on a true story.
It is based on the real life work of David MacEnulty.
See http://www.macenultychess.org/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0AXtPWAuCU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCr1kPQAzNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gO5Cro1qUE
Kasparov-Karpov Lyon 1990 [documentary + player analyses]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVcpelqT_Dw
Epic blitz games: [games with live commentary]
Anand-Ivanchuk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ix69sCFahw
Anand-Kasparov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XeW98Fpr4
Ziryab wrote:
Genghiskhant wrote:
'The Knights of Brooklyn' wasn't too bad as a chess movie. Ted Danson is a teacher who tries to get his school interested in chess....they win stuff...everyone loves them...and so on.
Just the usualy happy ending type of film but it's alright if you have a little time to kill. I think it is also based on a true story.
It is based on the real life work of David MacEnulty.
Ah great, thanks. I wasn't sure.
Can somebody please help and put that video of post 10 ( here above,) on this forum, so more chess players can watch it ... ( I am not that good with computers) Thanks !
RomyGer wrote:
Can somebody please help and put that video of post 10 ( here above,) on this forum, so more chess players can watch it ... ( I am not that good with computers) Thanks !
Sure, no problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXM3wrIhcwY
Hi every one!
If you know of any film, documentary or any other media clip that contains chess
Please, post the name of the video,
further mention what type: Film, Documentary, or interviews or others
Then last but not least, provide the accessible link to it.