there is a mistake in the movie i guess, you cant play 'bishop takes bishop' in the end. you should listen in german because the subtitles aren't right either
Movie: The Catcher Was a Spy
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Btw you cant even call this a serious game when rook takes bishop. Bad movie...
The spoken moves are only roughly related to the depicted position. For example, the first spoken move by Heisenberg, presumably playing Black, is pawn to queen knight 4, when Black already has a pawn on that square in the starting position. Many writers show little concern about the reasonableness and accuracy of chess positions and moves, as long as they can make use of the game as a story device, and many chessplayers find that irksome, perhaps especially so when a movie clearly shows a specific position, and the associated dialog doesn't accord with it.
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In analyzing the dialog between the characters Moe Berg and Werner Heisenberg in the movie "The Catcher was a Spy", would someone be willing to decode what the movie characters were potentially communicating to each other during each chess move from the beginning of their meeting until they finally part? Heisenberg is aware that Berg is packing a gun (and thus is a potential danger) and that Berg attended the earlier lecture. We know Berg as Berg, but Berg is introduced to Heisenberg as Aziz. Just after the two meet and speak, Heisenberg starts the chess portion of the movie by pushing aside the challenging game laid out by their host and begins to play a "blindfolded" game verbally. The scene progressing through dinner and, after a break, again once outside. During this time Berg is assessing Heisenberg's character within the context of Heisenberg's/Germany's progress and speed toward making a Germain atomic bomb. What is the subtext of what the Heisenberg character is telling the Berg character? How is the Heisenberg character probing the Berg character (Aziz's interest or intent is unknown to Heisenberg)? What is communicated via the chess moves to gain Heisenberg's confidence? What is the turning point? How does Heinsenberg relaying to the Berg character his intentions and progress? What nuance does taking a taking one piece or another communicate? Reflections and comments on the text and subtexts welcomed.
The actual position from the movie does NOT have a knight on b1. 
That having been said, this is another instance of where movie
makers throw in a chess scene to make 'characters' look 'smarter'.
For those of us who play chess, they are usually good for comic
relief and frustration!
In the scene in question ... it has NEVER been established as to
whether it is Black's turn, or White's. We learn from the dialogue
that the "host always does this 'Professor Scherrer' sets up a
difficult board" HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, and then LOL!
If it is Black to play ... Nh5 should be more than enough for
the win, and if it is White to play ... then Bg6 will get the job
done. I see no difficulty here!
Aug 19, 2024
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I just saw this movie for the first time last night. I think that the critical point in the blindfold game, despite possible errors, is the moment when Heisenberg says, "I cannot mount an attack with my king" (or words to that effect). By that point in the discussion, each is aware of exactly what they're really discussing, and Heisenberg effectively tells Berg in chess code that he isn't an aggressor, i.e. that he isn't helping the Nazis develop an atomic weapon. If there are other nuances being communicated in the previous moves, I'm not sure what they are.
Can anyone make out the game from the movie? Starts at 1:15:50 :
pawn to e5 - white/moe
pawn to queen's knight 4 - black/heisenberg
bishop to king 2
knight takes bishop
pawn takes knight
pawn takes pawnn
rook takes bishop
knight takes rook
bishop takes bishop
pawn takes knight