Chess in Movies

I'm working on it.

One of my latest discoveries was that the acorn-shaped rooks fit in nicely with that oak tree at the back.

What is delaying me the most is the fact that the  actual object, the painting  is said to be in Poland at the moment. I would like to take a look at the real thing before drawing any conclusion..

Yes, it is at the exhibit at Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, People's Museum in Poznań

You sound like with books, you want to see it in front of you, face it, hold it, touch it (no touching allowed!)

Bumiputra, just curious, what Sam had to do at one time as one of admins on the Italian team site?

he helps national teams in LCWL promotion

Eccola!

Well, well, well.

A thunderly Sunday morning. And we're preparing a surprise party for a friend of ours on the Allatoona Lake. The lake has changed, once it was a river.

Funny, for weeks I've been putting together a piece on the need to change... chess paradigm.

While your wonderful essay is about changes and revolutions affecting the rules, as well as social impact and perception of the game, my paradigm revolution talk is more about how we see and understand the game conceptually. In other words, the rules tell you How, but they say nothing about the Mental paradigms of Why things are unfolding in chess.

Well, here's the "Abstract" I put just last evening,

"Every domain of human activity, be it in science, or philosophy, or history, has been undergoing transformations since time eternal in the never-ending quest for its ultimate truth. Chess is no exception. These revolutions have always followed after the basic conceptual model, or paradigm had collapsed, having lost its capacity to solve acute problems. It is in these times that the thinkers start questioning the field paradigm's fundamental assumptions."

Back to Allatoona lake that once was Etowah River.

The change in Rules that Fischer brings about are really not of that magnitude. The way I see it, it is only about the opening edifice as you say, to eliminate 'acute problems' we've been seeing develop since the sad intro of ELO and engines, and any unfair advantage one player may have over another.

It is much more of a change when we deal with the fundamental way of how we understand the game above the level of the Rules.

In the piece (that I was thinking about you just the other day and was hoping you could possibly take a look with your deep scholarly knowledge of our game and let me know what you think about it and how it could be improved ) the need for a paradigm change in chess is something more like paradigm evolution in astronomy, how the Universe has been seen down the line, think Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler.

Actually, the working title is, Waiting for the Kepler of Chess...

Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) A Philosopher giving that lecture on the orrery, cca1766

Bumiputra, we also need to get into discussion James @Ziryab 

He's a historian and educator from the sisterly Washington State. And he is, you didn't know that, the first who trusted and adhered to the conceptual paradigm change

I tweeted this on Aug 28, 2017

Here's the game in Ukraine-Serbia Fischer, @OskarVint vs RP.

As one can see, the starting position quickly normalized after twelve moves. Very happy how the opening went for me. No ossified structures repeated ad infinitum, just a feel, and raw instinct and understanding

(one of the main reasons I've never reached anything in chess is exactly my obsession with and "studying" the openings in my "formative period")

Bumiputra, you like posting videos on chess. So should I

Hi Najdorf, thanks for checking in.

So I see you're not a fan of possible -- but uncertain and imprecise -- flights of fantasy and sorties of imagination?

as in... if a Knights Gambit doesn't exist yet, someone may always invent it?

Chess SCI_FI? Are you kidding us, roaring?

This scene is almost sacred, but - as some say about the Bible - maybe THEY should have done more research here

(..and a belated farewell to Mr. Rutger Hauer: I never met him in fact, but I do happen to still own one of those pretentious t-shirts with the quote about those "battleships... off the bastions of Orion") 

Would you like some more rantings about the chess inaccuracies in gotham?

Ok, here's a new entry, the Adams family

Nobody cared about the Adams.

I cared! Nice chess set...

Not as nice as Sofonisba's to tell the truth

Good to hear from you Bumiputra. That admin job has taken you from all of us

What about this set?

Hey Bumiputra, I see you are a white Knight, while I'm a black pawn.

That reminded of Virginia Woolf... The Voyage Out from 1915...

Out here it seemed as though the people of England must be shaped in the body like the kings and queens, knights and pawns of the chessboard, so strange were their differences, so marked and so implicitly believed in.

Gustav Klimt, Life is a Struggle-The Golden Knight

Certo certissimo, anzi probabile (English title Diary of a Telephone Operator) with Claudia Cardinale as Marta and Catherine Spaak as Nanda

Cardinale as a phone operator and Spaak as her best friend and a hairdresser. Claudia hooks the most handsome men, and Catherine "stole" them from her. The girls are quite liberated, and they are quite explicit about what they want. Both are sexy (and we see them many times in their underwear), so are their men ; most of the cast is a parade of 60s sex-appeal. Due to the theme it could be vulgar or lascivious, but in fact it is realist and affectionate. The girls are rival but still friends, the guys are guys next door (Law is a house painter who stutters!). The music is very 60s, with wordless tunes and pop songs.

A film which is still modern and daring, deeper and more surprising than expected. With non stereotypical characters. And at the same time realist and glamorous, a difficult balance to reach. 

(chrismass61's review)