DOES THIS BOTHER YOU?

It's as if they are disrespecting the game as too trivial to be careful about portraying.

Movie props can be so funny...I mean, do they think the audience is that stupid? Anyway, it doesn't really irritate me...I just laugh it off, but hey...who has time to watch a movie when there's chess to play!!!

I purposely don't look at movie chessboards for this reason.

Yea, that does annoy me.

On an off topic, this reminds me of this pixar short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eb0ihxSED4

(their checkmating position is correct!)

How about "The Core", where on top of a bunch of other BS needed to make this impossibly wrong plot work..... a "scientist" gratuitously maps the DNA of a Frog's Genome with 1 bag of Skittles as if the screenwriter was following up on some dare with a friend.

Hahaa!  I feel the same way about scientific fact, or any fact for that matter.  I think I usually no when I'm being put on and believe none of it. I say, again, the producers, directors, screenwriters, etc, though, who put that kaka in front of our childrem who don't no better, should be drawn and quartered!  The tv and the big screen chould be such a tool for enlightenment.  Instead, it's all about the bottom line.  In my eyes, that makes them, and others like them, crooks.  And culpable for the state of the union.

I wish I had a nickel for every scene I've seen where Player A announces "check" and Player B makes a move and announces "checkmate" (to the total surprise of Player A).

I've never seen it happen in a real game, though I have heard of "helpmate" puzzles.

One of the best chess scenes I recall was in an episode of Northern Exposure. Started with an English Opening ... my favorite at the time!

i found it an excellent means of expressing ones mind,,no matter what you'll

all was find people trying to undermine,there insecure,or I'm always better on matter how bad there thoughts or expressions,they still under mind good work

to help sooth there on insecurity..  I'd love to play you some time  I love a good game and plesset chat,,got time challing me : )...

Think I understood two words of that! 

Humphrey Bogart was a chessplayer. He incorporated one of his own games into a movie, I believe. Casablanca???

I get annoyed when people get irritated by simple things like chess in movies. I'd care more if the movie was fundamentally flawed, but a chess set should not detract from the viewing of a movie. If you are annoyed by the fact people don't know how to play chess, laugh at them.

Might make for a good book, actually. Compile all the times chess appears in TV shows and in movies, and give a brief analysis of them. Hatley High is a chess movie, and I think even it has some flaws, although they don't show the positions too clearly in most of the scenes.

I get annoyed when people get annoyed over what other people are annoyed about.

I get annoyed when people take a meta-point, and try to turn it into a meta-meta-point.

Try!?  That was a successful meta-meta-complaint.

I recently saw a show (on USA i believe) in which a kid meets a chess maniac (thinks he is a know it all) and challenges him to a game. They end up drawing every game, and the position were actually correct! Exceptthe first game started with a strange  1.e4 2.c5!(Finally, a sicillian on tv!) 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5!? Strange but at least they know their chess!

Has anyone seen the Mission Impossible tv series?

I have seen two episodes with the IMF team cheating the bad guys in chess with a computer! But this show was made in 1968-1973! The moves are not realistic here either (the usual 1 move mate etc) but the shows were fantastic. Far superior to MI movies with tom cruise.

And just recently on the WSOP 2009 the poker commentator played with another poker player who was supposedly a master a game of chess  - they actually showed this for 5 minutes on tv!

The commentator was funny saying things like : "I just moved my horsey" etc . Even though it looked like a real game - they even used clocks! I am not sure because I didnt get to see the board too clearly.

However this must have been the first time that Poker actually had to give up 5 minutes to chess!

Oh Yes it does!  as I am always trying to get a glimpse of the board and see the position.  What is also odd is the percentage of Suburban American homes with a chess board in the finished basement.  I did work as a carpenter for a restoration company.  the basement floods we come in gut it, fix it.  Well, the homeowner has to leave the basement pretty much as is for insurance purposes.  Point is that a staggering 8 of 10 Americans have a chess set in the basement, more odd is the less these finished basement are used the more likely a set is present.  Few of them actually play but invariably most have the set. 

I can't help but notice things like this. For example, look at this position, taken from the cover of the latest novel by Belgium's most uninspired writer. How did it come about?

It looks impossible to me too. Luckily, in my favourite sitcom, Frasier, the chess boards always seem to be set up correctly.