Chess - The Musical

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Am just off to see Chess - the musical tonight. Not sure it’ll improve my game but it's an interesting concept.

“The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other; all in the context of a Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union, during which both countries wanted to win international chess tournaments for propaganda purposes. Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any specific individuals, the character of the American was loosely based on chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.”

http://www.chess-the-musical.co.uk/

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I see they've made Molokov Sergievsky's second... That's new! They neverwill settle down with the story and keep changing it bit by bit...

Where are you seeing it? The tour dates listed on the website are for last year.

See also: http://www.chess.com/groups/home/chess-the-musical-aficionados 

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A wonderful, wonderful musical.

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DavidStyles wrote:

Where are you seeing it? The tour dates listed on the website are for last year.

 

Ah. It was only a local (Derbyshire)  production unfortunately but very well done.

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Calogero_Rizzo wrote:

One Night in Bangkok by Murray Head.  Great song from the 80's.

Very True. I haven't heard it since the 80s but it was definately one of the highlights.

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