Efim Geller who was Spassky's 2nd. Who was the priest who was Fischer's 2nd? (I will look it up now)
Yeah, Mex. Hard to figure out what was gamesmanship by the players & their teams and the interference from CIA & KGB, who must have been involved too, I would imagine.
Nacho Man
nice movie. watched it w/o subtitles - was able to understand most of it ;-)
but come on, the last game was STOOOPID, like a demented version of the halloween gambit!
1. e4, e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nxe5?? Nxe5 5. d4??, Nxc4 & white still wins in the end??????
Full docu/drama above - 84 mins
Nacho Man
BAHAHAHAHA!! Wish I could use that pic/gif for my facebook profile.
lol man. now I got mariachi music and tacos in my head
yeah Kitten the character didn't remind me of someone with bi polar either in the movie.
The late/great Robin Williams was said to have the disorder. Stephen Fry also has it, who is also quite brilliant. I guess we only see them in the 'up phase' of their cycle though.
Thanks Marco your Farell gif led me to the video below:
The SciFi channel has been running a marathon of Shark movies all week. They've got sand sharks, Ice sharks, Atomic sharks, Ghost sharks, etc. It suddenly dawned on me we've got the same thing at Chess.com
We've got thread sharks, posting sharks, mod sharks
bullet sharks, trophy sharks, off-topic sharks. Someone has to warn the outside world
I agree Ron - thanks for the 'heads up'
Much as it pains me to say, I disliked 'Pawn Sacrifice'.
I respect Tobey Maquire, but a character actor he isn't. Nearly all the witness reports testify that Fischer - even as a teenager - would electrify a room just by sauntering into it, did Maguire capture any of that? Similarly, Liev Schreiber does a workmanlike job on Spassky, but Spassky himself attended a special screening of the film in Moscow last year (or was it earlier this year?) and afterwards he gave a lengthy interview to the Russian press.
This interview is worth seeking out actually, he speaks candidly about many issues including his well-documented family problems, but at one point he was asked if he saw Boris Spassky in the film and his reply was: "Not that I noticed."
What disappointed me the most perhaps was that despite the naked hostility between the two camps, despite the unbearable tension of the Cold War, Fischer and Spassky became close personal friends - and this friendship endured too, one of Fischer's last wishes was that Spassky should act as a pall-bearer at his funeral.
When you think about it this was a remarkable and extraordinary outcome, one in which humanity and true sportsmanship transcended politics, yet it's one that the movie completely fails to document.
I feel it's also worth pointing out (and this was noted in the film) that when his KGB minders demanded that Spassky claim the match by default after Fischer failed to show up for game two, Spassky refused to comply.
Interesting Ghostliner, I managed to find some of the interview you refer to above for those interested:
https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/boris-spassky-2016-interview
On of my fav chess movies is the Seventh Seal:
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning, The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet), was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art-house heyday, pushing cinema’s boundaries and ushering in a new era of moviegoing.
Have hunted for the link to the movie & it seems they have locked down.
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize we moved on to another movie.
7th Seal...Is that with Johnny Depp.? Wups! not in 1958. God I need a coffee
That was a Geller's initiative. He was also prone to lose his head in his own way.