The three that immediately come to mind are:
Life of a King
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Pawn Sacrifice
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Pawn Sacrifice is garbage. The writing is terrible, the plot is all over the place and Fischer is misrepresented. Definitely Searching for Bobby Fischer.
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Anymore which includes games etc ?
The only other chess movie I can think of is the Bobby Fischer documentary. I believe it's on YouTube and really good. That is one of the biggest problems with Pawn Sacrifice to me, it really has nothing to do with chess. Searching for Bonny Fischer handles it really well, so that even if you don't know how to play chess, it's interesting. But if you do, it includes actual games and strategy discussion throughout.
There's also a chess movie on Netflix with Cuba Gooding, Jr. Worst movie I've ever seen. Chess movies just aren't done very often or very well.
There's also a chess movie on Netflix with Cuba Gooding, Jr. Worst movie I've ever seen. Chess movies just aren't done very often or very well.
Mar 19, 2016
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The chess movie you're thinking of is Life of a King. Here's a chess.com write-up of it: https://www.chess.com/news/life-of-a-king-cuba-gooding-jr-stars-in-chess-movie-4161
Movies need to appear attractive to the general public in order to bring in enough people to pay for it at the box office. I think that's why actual games aren't included often.
AlexCampbell wrote:
The three that immediately come to mind are:
Life of a King (which chess.coms VP of Content Daniel Rensch helped with producing)
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Pawn Sacrifice
Pawn Sacrifice was pretty bad...
Mar 19, 2016
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#9
There is a 1978 German film titled something like Swartz und Weiss Wei Tage und Nächte. I haven't finished it, but the chess scenes are intense.
All are right pawn Sacrifice was not good
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Can anyone explain what bullllet is telling is it a movie or video ?
Game Over-Kasparov And The Machine (2003) FULL Documentary
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine is a 2003 documentary film by Vikram Jayanti about the match between Garry Kasparov, the highest rated chess player in history and the World Champion for 15 years (1985--2000), and Deep Blue, a chess-playing computer created by IBM. It was coproduced by Alliance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDe-uHsEMn8
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Mar 20, 2016
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#16
I would strongly recommend the short film "Chess Fever" made in 1925, starring Chess world champion José Raúl Capablanca.
I would also recommend "Geri's Game"...
Both are very funny and very good...
Mar 20, 2016
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#18
Films with more intelligence, depth or humor than the usual schlock found in "chess movies." In chronological order:
- Chess Fever (Russian, 1925 silent) directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Brainwashed (German, 1960) directed by Gerd Oswald
- Dangerous Moves (French/Swiss, 1984) directed by Richard Dembo (Academy Award winner for best foreign language film)
- Geri's Game (Pixar animated short, 1997) directed by Jan Pinkava
- The Luzhin Defence (2000) directed by Marleen Gorris
- Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) documentary directed by Liz Garbus.
Note: the link to Geri's Game with the correct French accordion music track is found here, not in a previous post.
Thanks all
Top chess movies u need to see?