I had a small magnetic travel board out in a bar recently, reading a chess book, and my waitress wanted to play, so I played her a game. She wasn't very good, but she knew how all the pieces moved, with the exception of castling, which I explained. She would play a little, check on her customers, come back and play some more. After two games, I turned it into a lesson, showing her how to mate with rook/king vs king, 2 rooks vs king, etc.
At the end of the night, she told me that was the first time she had ever played. So I asked her how she knew how the pieces moved if she had never played before.
She said she learned how they moved watching "Searching For Bobby Fischer".
Cannon Ball Run 2. It's like chess but with cars. Only goofing around. I do have a serious question:
I saw a film early one morning years and years ago. It was about this kid living in the ghetto. He was damn good at chess, but got hooked up in selling drugs on the corner. Then low and behold, he's actually been squirreling money away for ages and has this huge plan to get out of the ghetto.
Anyway, does anybody know what this film was?
The film is called Fresh. Samuel L. Jackson plays the kids alcoholic dad who plays Chess in the park for money. Brilliant movie.