Chess in popular culture

Few movies worth checking out: Pawn Sacrifice, Searching For Bobby Fischer, Knights of the South Bronx, Magnus.

There are only two serious works of prose centering on chess that I know of.  Vladimir Nabokov wrote "The Luzhin Defense" (later published as just "The Defense").  A grandmaster goes insane.  Stefan Zweig wrote the novella "The Royal Game" which is worth reading.  A few other novels I've read about chessplayers are total crap.  The great Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem "Chess" which is worth reading.

I have not seen it, but I have heard that there is a scene from Charlie's Angels where Jaclyn Smith takes on two Russian grandmasters, one as White, one as Black, with a bet that she will get an even score, and she copies one grandmaster's moves against the other.  I believe that the grandmasters, sitting next to each other at adjacent boards, could have defeated this plan when they saw it emerge.

i love cats!

I love cats too, Mr. Spring.  Sometimes my kitty sits in my lap and watches the monitor while I play blitz chess, and a couple of times she has done something that cost me a game.  She's a pretty good kitty, except for when she's a bad kitty.

😲

i am a girl

Oh, and the cat in my avatar was lifted off the Wikipedia page for Maine Coon cats.  The thumbnail format doesn't do justice to this magnificent animal.

how do u know ma real name!?

You're a girl on a chess site?  I welcome you, but you're a low percentage demographic here.

VESNA in russia means spring

In Russian, vyes-NAH means spring.

They've been watching you for some time Mr. um...Ms. Spring. 

hahahaha. i am a kid.

I am 63, and I have a lot of firewood to stack today, and I will also be assembling and deploying my new Big Green Egg barbecue!

Lexx, my favourite series all categories, season 4 episode 18.

If random information is required: cats love me and I moved grass with a scythe thursday evening...

You mowed grass with a SCYTHE?  Don't they have riding mowers in Sweden?  I thought it was an advanced country.

I was helping with foraging in a nature reserve. It was difficult terrain.