Chess Documentaries

Bobby Fischer Against The World. Top documentary

Netflix

This is one old thread. The OP hasn't even been here for 18 months.

ciggies... you've got to give me a link to the Tompkins Park chess movie... Hell man, if it was made anytime between 1983 and 1993 I'd have to be in it. Please send me the link.

*EDIT* Well I found the Fargo films site and the outtake picture shows a guy in a red hat playing chess, that's Chris! I've played him a mazillion times! A dollar a game... he won most of the time. We were all terrible patzers back then. Dang, does that bring back memories... I can smell the beery peed-behind-a-tree funk mixed with fried food wafting over from Leshko's and somebodies joint and someone else's rollyourown tobacco the sun coming down thru the trees and punks and homeless making their livin'-in-public racket yelling about what not and everyone yakking in some bizarre accent or another and Emil... EMIL! Half-homeless old, battered, tattered and broke but with the most extraordinary elegant manners, a philospher of mischief with a blazing sparkle in his eye, always up to some prank, some absurd story... Emil, bouncing some black clad punk rocker chick on his knee and talking her into panhandling him a beer! He had had more 'girlfriends' than teeth!  And not a bad chess player at all... I'll always remember our very first chess game, in the Life Cafe, when Emil midway through our game suddenly declared that our position was simply too good for us, we were not worthy of it, and in the most good-natured way possible refused to continue! Ahaha...  Ou sont les neiges D'antan?