How did a chess documentary make my documentaries list??

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life and facts of pdela

Thanks! I haven't enjoyed a video as much since "Debbie Does Seattle." 

I think "Debbie does Dallas" is better

is there not a "Debbie does Dallas, again" ?

I happened to watch this for the first time at the weekend (someone posted a link from the greatest player of all time thread) and it's stunning.

But aside from all the great games and quotes and insights the main thing I took from this documentary is that Anatoly Karpov is incredibly cool. Indeed this documentary makes a mockery of anyone (including me) that even mentioned anyone else in the coolest chess player of all time thread.

He is the sort of man who I imagine would react in the same tone of voice to a lottery win as a death in the family. He reminds me of the Russian guy in season two of The Wire: "Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Then it wasn't us."

Anyone talking in a Russian accent about chess sounds instantly cooler. I would go as far as to say the accent is the only thing that can prevent someone talking about chess from sounding like a nerd.

The last documentary/autobiography I watched was about Mike Tyson. I believe it was called Tyson. It was riveting. I would recommend it to anyone.

I think that everyone, including Karpov himself, would have been stunned if you said that when he was world champ.

Fighting Ali - an astonishing documentary

Seen this yet?

Kasparov clock simul v. US juniors.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6251

That was pretty good

I still haven't seen anything explicit.

The "Kasparov VS Karpov in Lyon 1990" video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-123587302886162278 was amazing. Thanks for the great recommendation, trysts!

For anybody who knows who Glenn Gould (the pianist) was, I recommend the following documentary about Gould: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWU_mC_dnxw (it's in 12 parts, and the audio is unfortunately not great, but that's the only online version I could find). There's also a new documentary coming out about Gould soon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IMDCKG

EDIT: there is also another documentary at youtube that has better audio than the one above, but I prefer the first one above except for the poor audio quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jiuw44HHb4g

Superb documentary on Gould! I saw that and forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder!

I see you managed to escape the aliens.

I see you managed to jump 200 rating points in a couple of months! Good job, woodshover! And nice to see you here

It was a bit over 1300, now it's on the down swing. Orangehonda vanished when you did. Didn't say why.

Sweet! You were over 1300. That is wonderful! And I remember orangehonda leaving a few weeks before I, to concentrate on university, I hear.

Oh.