What will be a good chess movie?

I think they must make a movie on the relationship between Lasker and Einstein. These two were friends but really despised each other. Einstein said he cant understand that such great talent (Lasker) is wasted on chess, and Lasker did not thought much of Eintein's relativity theory. Lasker gave Einstein a copy of one of his books, but it was later found in a second hand book store. In terms of religion these two also had very different views.

It is a nice theme for a movie: two geniuses against each other.

There was enough movies of Fischer and they are not very successful anymore.

For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions. – Albert Einstein (about Lasker)

Lasker and Albert Einstein were friends. On one occasion Lasker visited Einstein in Princeton and presented him with an autographed copy of Go and Gomoku. In exchange, Einstein gave Lasker an autographed copy of one of his papers on relativity. Several years later, the autographed copy of Go and Gomoku showed up in a used bookstore in Baltimore. When told about this and asked what he thought of it, Lasker replied: `That's all right. I left his relativity paper on the subway.'

How about Lasker and Einstein falling in love with the same women.... but in the end she marries a high ranking Nazi just to become a spy. She meets with Albert secretly via a Chess Tournament that Lasker is playing in and there is a big shoot out. They live happily ever after , the 3 of them having built a nuke and they accidentally drop it on a peace conference. ... Slim Pickens rides the bomb... wait a minute...that sounds familiar...hummmm

My favourite chess movie would definitely exlude the following elements:

Fischer

cold war

exploding/speeding cars

guns

bombs

NYPD

NSLV

asteroids hitting the earth/vulcanoes erupting

saving the world from physical disasters

zombies

anyone dying because of unnatural reasons

human rights activism

climate change

3d animation

Chess is more of a mind game so it would be nice to have a movie with a clever story

What movies (other than documentaries) about Fischer are there?

You are right. I cannot think of a single one. Even the movie Searching For Bobby Fischer was based on the life of Joshua Waitzkin

I wish I would have been the one to buy that book. It's probably worth a boat load.

I actually just found this one, but it's pretty awful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DzjV3fN9Yg&feature=related

 I have watched that on netflix recently. It's a bit tough to watch. It's ok, but IMO, a "B" movie. Something to see if you are too tired to study a game, but want to have something going on that has to do with chess.

It would be hard to top Knight Moves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h7OoH-cN6Q

if i were a screenwriter for the movies,i would involve all great champions from the past in one era or say onemovie where they are all pitted agaisnt each other in a one tournament, a world class tournament. their names would also be the same but for their age i would create new ones. it would be also nice if the actors hired for the purpose will be also the great grandmasters of todays era.adding special characteristic of each great players to the past in their conversation or comments might also be interesting for portrayal and results of the tournament a nice ending to know.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/very-old-chess-movie

I would like to see a movie about an older chess player of master strength, traveling around today's Europe trying to make a living off of the ever dwindling prize money. The master doesn't know much about anything but chess, and that ignorance is challenged by the experiences of social unrest in Europe. In a tournament in Spain, the master suspects cheating by one of his/her colleagues, but calculates that if it is not reported, then the financially-strapped master will receive a much-needed piece of the prize fund. In the back-drop of this ethical decision is the growing intensity of the Spanish protests

Why Spain?

I read more about the Spanish protests, but it could be Greece, Italy, Portugal, etc.

Sorry, I was unclear - why the current economic unrest?

Or it could be a Russian mob movie. Two heads of different factions sit down at a secluded but heavily guarded place (warehouse, hotel suite, whatever). They are there to make a treaty. However, the sub-plot is to get the other head down to a game of chess to keep him busy while he is making his own "moves" outside.

These two heads will talk, eat a bit and drink. One of them will suggest a relaxing game of chess while discussing the "treaty". In this scene they sit down full view of both and chessboard. After a few moves, one of them (black) takes a pawn and says to his adversary, "Careful. If you are not careful, you may lose more than a pawn." The reply from white was, "Oh, did I do that? No matter. Now where were we...". Fade to  scene where it is one of white's buildings. It's a safehouse for some of the soldiers and it happened to be occupied by some. It blows up. Fade back to the "peace talks". After a few moves, a phalanx of white pawns invade the center, black' piece is out of play. Cut to a whorehouse scene. White's gang is muscling in on the parlor killing everyone but the girls. The movie keeps going on like this for the entire game until checkmate or stalemate.

I think you get the point. Something like The Godfather II baptism scene, except that the baptism is replaced with a chess game.

I love the book "The Eight," I have read this book twice and I found things in it that I must have by passed the first time around.

I find this is would be a great chess movie. All you chess players that read about master that are dead, well you find them alive in this book and playing chess.

I am so surprised that a movie has not been made of this book. But if the movie makers are familiar with chess and don't have a passion then it probably won't be made.

Since the movie isn't available pick up this book it's about 25 years old. She wrote a sequel to it called 'FIRE' but I didn't like it and the reviews were bad.

You probably can get it on Amazon.

All of you chess players that are still in school or even in college, if you have to read a novel and make a report or analyzes, this is probably the best you would find and have fun reading it.

It has mystery, intrigue, humor, action, dialog instead of just narrative.

If you do read it I would like to hear from you about your thoughts on it.

Because the master is having economic problems him/herself. The master looks upon these problems being related to age and technological advancements(chess engines), therefore younger people are better at chess much earlier. The master could have a disdain for the youth, thinking they have it much easier today than he/she had it. The master relates everything to chess, because the master lives in a chess room with no windows to what is really going on in the world. The master envies the youth, because the master is ignorant of the youth's growing anxiety of their world having no future. When confronted by the cheating dilemma, the master is also confonted by the lack of ethics and morals which is threatening to destroy the economies in various countries of Europe.

A book called "Pawn to Infinity" edited by Fred Saberhagen is a collection of fantasy/sci-fi stories related to chess. It wasn't awful. "Midnight by the Morphy Watch" by Fritz Lieber was my favorite. The only chess movie I would watch would be "Salma Hayek Plays Chess in a Bikini."

I'm a filmmaker, and after reading all of these posts honestly I think they're all shite except for possibly making a movie off of the book The Eight.

Concocting some formula movie with gangs, explosions, etc. and just throwing in some element of chess is NOT making a chess movie.
Good chess movies are true stories about the lives of people who have attained mastery of the game and the journey that took them there. Searching for Bobby Fischer was a great movie.

If you took a documentary, such as one on Bobby Fischer, and instead of talking about his life reenacted it with talented actors and a good producer, you would have a box office hit.