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What is your favorite CHESS movie?
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the dark horse is really solid
the dark horse is really solid
Pawn Sacrifice
If you haven't seen it, I recommend "The Mighty Pawns". It's a 57-minute TV movie from 1987.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCEAtCaq0s
The chess scene in If Tomorrow Comes.
This is not the scene, but a prelude to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zZwwCPSnYU
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
There was a scene at end where the villain plays chess.
There was a scene at end where the villain plays chess.
snoozyman wrote:
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
There was a scene at end where the villain plays chess.
There was a scene at end where the villain plays chess.
Pink Panther, Steve Martin, inspector Jacques Clouseau, when he is trying to make awesome move by moving the knight 2 times at one turn
: )
The Dark Horse
Aug 4, 2021
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Kevin_C_Wilson wrote:
If you haven't seen it, I recommend "The Mighty Pawns". It's a 57-minute TV movie from 1987.
Thanks for the link. Just watched it. Very corny but appreciated the 80s nostalgia. I liked when a huge crowd carrying signs and the TV news crews greeted the team after winning the junior regionals. In real life, the chess kids can't even get their parents to come pick them up after returning from a match lol.
Aug 4, 2021
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#53
I was living in the UK in the early 1990s and I saw a made for TV movie called the Grass Arena.
It's the true story of a young man, John Healy, and chronicles his violent and abusive childhood, his descent into vagrancy, alcoholism and crime as an adult. While in prison, he learns chess and it takes over his life. He became an accomplished player.
It inspired me to try chess, and I also got hooked and have been playing ever since...
Chess Fever - a silent comedy movie from 1925.
Nov 10, 2021
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#56
'Pawn Sacrifice' -- for a 'History' Chess movie.
'The Luzhin Defence' -- for a fiction movie (starring Chess?)
...but then there is this new movie... will be bizarre for sure!
https://www.chess.com/blog/GrunkleMike/chess-in-movies-the-french-dispatch
Nov 11, 2021
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#57
I’m saddened that you think Pawn Sacrifice was good chess history. Or good chess anything.
The movie needlessly made up opponents’ names, events and even games. What are the odds that Fischer studied a game in a Soviet chess magazine starting with 1.h4 h5?
A much better movie that incorporated chess history in a semi-fictional setting was “Dangerous Moves”. It was a lightly fictionalized account of the Karpov-Korchnoi match with the ages of the players reversed. But many of the more ridiculous elements of the movie actually happened! It accurately portrays the battle of the psychics!
Nov 11, 2021
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#58
Jenium wrote:
My favourite scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSV2IFNgqI4
0:16 no one in the park --> 30s later: park is crowded ;-)
Great film.
You can tell from how the shadows fall on the board that they started filming that scene in the morning, and didn't finish filming until close to sunset ...
A lot of takes and re-takes.
It's a sign that the director felt this scene was important to the movie, and wanted to get it just right ...
Nov 11, 2021
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#59
Chess Fever, a short 1925 Soviet comedy made during the famous 1925 Moscow international tournament, features Capablanca as one of the recurring characters with appearances by Frank Marshall, Richard Reti, Ernst Grunfeld, Carlos Torre, and Frederick Yates. As a silent film, it was possible to have the chess celebrities say anything. The interesting thing is that the chess players had no idea they were making a movie, the actors just approached them as fans or reporters and newly-perfected editing techniques made it possible to put these scenes into a completely different movie.
My favourite scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSV2IFNgqI4
0:16 no one in the park --> 30s later: park is crowded ;-)