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Dec 7, 2010
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#63
tonydal wrote:
Crosspinner wrote:
I often take too many of what is written as jokes in these threads as serious on the part of the writers. I'm learning. I having a good time doing it, too.
That makes you a member of a vast club around here (and wouldn't you know it?--it's a chess club! lol). Glad to hear you're learning to put up with the more puckish among us...
It's not that I am learning to put up with all of you, because I have always liked to tease, and I can take it. However, I am learning, slowly be surely, I hope, to determine when remarks are jokes and when they are serious. Although, sometimes it is very difficult, because some people, I think, are very serious in what they say, but sometimes I just can't help but laugh.
Dec 8, 2010
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#64
Here is a rundown of all the movies you guys have suggested.
Of course I have my own favorite choices and the worst one.
I love Searching for Bobby Fischer! Since it all about chess and family. I have two, a VHS and a DVD copies. I have two of Josh Waitzkin's books. Attacking Chess and his Karate world championship book.
I like the Crown Thomas Affair the sexy seven minute scene. The openning start out Ruy Lopez.
Lucky Number Sleven. It's actually a movie play on chess. Black against white. Attack on the kings.
The worst is The Seventh Seal. Boring!
Now here is the list and you can make your choice which to rent and watch. . .
2001 Space Odyssey. Plays Hal. !
Dawn of the dead. Plays chess on the roof.
Searching for Bobby Fischer! Complete movie on chess. Best!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Short scene. !
Geri's Game: Animated
From Russia with Love: James bond movie. !
The seventh seal: Death plays chess. Terrible. Boring.
Dangerous Moves: La Diagonale du Fou. ?
Lucky Number Sleven. Black and White live chess against each other.
Knight Moves: 1992 mystery killings. ?
Columbo the Most Dangerous Match: One Tv show. ?
The Thomas Crown Affair: Sexy chess scene. It starts Ruy Lopez!
Knights of the South Bronx: I read the book. ?
The Geek: ?
The Bone Collector: Danzel Washington ?
So which is your choice of the best?
Sorry if I missed any suggestions.
Dec 8, 2010
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#65
Fezzik wrote:
Why on earth would we need to vote? What's the point? How many here have even seen Dangerous Moves?
Then don't vote.
What is the point of
"how many have seen Dangerous Moves?"
Dec 8, 2010
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#66
I vote for Searching for Bobby Fischer. And perhaps the adult film "Sexual Zugzwang." (Made that up)
Dec 8, 2010
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#67
Thank you for taking the time to collect and post these movies. I read the book Searching for Bobby Fischer and I would like to see the movie. Maybe that wasn't the name of the book, but it was about Josh Waitzkin's as a boy starting out on his chess career.
Dec 8, 2010
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#68
Crosspinner wrote:
Thank you for taking the time to collect and post these movies. I read the book Searching for Bobby Fischer and I would like to see the movie. Maybe that wasn't the name of the book, but it was about Josh Waitzkin's as a boy starting out on his chess career.
Yes that was the name of the book also. Waitskin's sort of bowed out of chess and took up a Martial form of Karate and he became world champion. It took him three or four years.
I have his book that he wrote about the process it took him. The reason I like the book is because he compares the mental game of karate and chess.
I teach bowling and chess. At the highest levels of either one the mental game comes into play.
Hi folks,
I may be a little late, but I remember seeing a trailer from a French movie called La Joueuse d'échecs (English title: Queen to Play). It's set in Corsica, and it's about a chambermaid that gets bitten by the chess bug and becomes obsessed with the game. Kevin Kline plays a retired Amercian chess master who mentors her. I didn't see it but it looked interesting.
On a side note, I don't know if any of you watched Frasier, but chess is an on-going theme throuought the series. There's on particular episode called Chess Pains in which Frasier's antique dealer finds him an expensive, ornate chess set from Paris and challenges his dad (a former police detective) to a game. His dad then beats him--repeatedly--and Frasier is completely flabbergasted trying to figure out how to win. There's some really funny lines & scenes in it.
--Fr.Pinhead
DENVERHIGH wrote:
Crosspinner wrote:
Thank you for taking the time to collect and post these movies. I read the book Searching for Bobby Fischer and I would like to see the movie. Maybe that wasn't the name of the book, but it was about Josh Waitzkin's as a boy starting out on his chess career.
Yes that was the name of the book also. Waitskin's sort of bowed out of chess and took up a Martial form of Karate and he became world champion. It took him three or four years.
He isn't a world champion in reality. Apparently he has a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Dec 9, 2010
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#71
dnleary wrote:
Rocky III has a chess scene where Rocky checkmates some guy.
I can't imagine a world where Rocky Balboa has the know-how to mate someone :)
Dec 9, 2010
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#72
Atos wrote:
He isn't a world champion in reality. Apparently he has a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
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Atos I don't know where you got your information but Josh in most certainly a black belt.
I am a brown belt and I stink.
In a interview for his book THE ART OF LEARNING he was asked it he would go back to chess, he said,
"I don’t think I will ever go back to competitive chess. I’m on to new mountains. Since winning the 2004 Tai Chi Push Hands Worlds Championship."
Josh didn’t start studying Tai Chi Chuan until I was 21.
The 1st World Kuoshu Championship
Sao Paolo, Brazil in 2003
and
2004 International Chinese Martial Arts Championship in Florida
He won the 50-70 kilo Divisions
Garcia won the other division
Both have opened up a studio to teach on the 6th floor in New York
That is the cover of his book. It has so many insights for teaching, learning chess and martial arts.
At one time he was giving the book away to any one wishing to use his methods in their teachings.
I have incorporated several of his thoughts in teaching bowling to my students. In the higher levels the mental game plays a large part in any game.
LlordLlama, Sorry about taken up space on your blog. Bye for now.
lol..
Dec 10, 2010
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#74
tonydal wrote:
You college kids and your quips.
Tony, how did you know I am going to college. I am taking "Quips 101A"
Whatch out when I am done!
Merry Christmas!
Denver!
Mar 27, 2011
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#76
I am in disbelief that no one has mentioned the movie 'Fresh' which is hands down, THE best movie about chess, ever. Even better than the Seventh Seal.
You guys are mentioning any movie that has a chess board in it. With Fresh the ENTIRE movie is an metaphor for a chess game and has astounding performances by everyone in the cast including Samuel L. Jackson. I don't normally act like a movie snob but seriously how can everyone have missed this classic?
Anyway another great movie with some chess is 'Ghost dog: Way of the samurai".
Atos, well done on being completely wrong.. DENVERHIGH good work setting Atos straight. Art of Learning is an awesome book and Josh Waitzkin is an amazing champion of several disciplines now!
TheGrobe wrote:
Oh, the remake was OK, but was by no means as good as the original. The whole social commentary of the original got lost somewhere in the mix, and that was the best part of George Romero's version.
One thing I will give the remake: Fast zombies = scary as hell
Thats the way I guaged the scariness of monsters as a youngster---how fast they moved. Frankenstein was scary but I dont think he could catch me. Did you ever see Frankie run? The Mummy would take a step and drag his other foot---man he aint going to catch anybody. On the other hand, the Wolfman could run like a wolf and tear you a new one
The biggest box office movie for Universal studios (1934) was the Black Cat. It had Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff as stars. They play an interesting game of chess in the movie.
Jul 4, 2011
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#78
trysts wrote:
Fezzik wrote:
The absolute best movie that had chess in it was The Seventh Seal.
I just saw "The Seventh Seal" recently again, and it's actually an incredibly dull film. Waaaaay overrated! I guess I thought it was good before, because I didn't really see that many good films when I first saw it. But now, I think it's complete crap
NO it's not Waaaaay overrated! And it's not complete crap either it's an awesome movie! I guess trysts needs to stick to chess and not movie reviews
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/
... in the film version of East of Eden (1955) they play, just never show it on screen. I haven't read the book by Steinbeck, been wanting to, and I wonder if Aaron and Caleb's father plays chess in the novel.
A game of go in A Beautiful Mind (2001). and I've seen a few games in old kung fu and wuxia flix like Titanium Blade (1983) *aka* Legendary Swordsman *aka* The Denouncement of Chu Liu Hsiang and in Fight for Glory (1981)
(still haven't watched Lucky number sleven, read it sucks, or Dangerous moves, read it is unforgettable)
3D chess is wrong on so many levels
Wrong? Why do you say that?
Why don't you check your files, maybe someone swindled your sense of humor
No, my sense of humor is fine. I get it now, and that is on the level. Duh.
My first thought was gambit13 was one of those people that didn't like chess variations and I was just curious as to why he didn't like 3D chess.
I have nothing against 3D chess or any chess variants. I was making a lame joke. I apologise for any offence caused
It was a good joke, too. You certainly were not offensive to me. I often take too many of what is written as jokes in these threads as serious on the part of the writers. I'm learning. I having a good time doing it, too.