Chess documentary - Recommendations?

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Simendo

Hey guys. I wonder if any of you have any documentaries on chess, chessplayer etc that you will recommend?

I have watched two alreday: "Kasparov VS Deep Blue" and "My brilliant brain" starring Susan Polgar. I really liked these two(and i will recommend them), and i would love to watch more documentaries on such topics. It would be best if your recommendations where to be found on Google videos, Youtube, but every recommendations is really welcome.

Thanks guys.

kkjimbo

I really enjoyed 'Battlefields of the mind' it was a British tv program (now available on dvd) from the eighties, presented by GM Ray Keene.  12 episodes,  30 mins per episode. Each episode covers one of the 12 best games of chess as selected by Ray Keen. He tries to show how chess has progressed over a hundred years starting with Andersson up to the last game of the second WCC match between Karpov v Kasparov. You get a brief history of the players and why Keene thinks the game is important in the progression of chess theory. All very interesting but what I liked best is the way he covers the games. He really explains them so a club player like me can follow what is going on. He co-presents with Donald Woods famous journalist and author who himself is just a club level player and asks the questions you or I may ask. The presentation is somewhat dated now but I really recommend this series.

sempervirentz

The series name is "Duels of the Mind" and it is on Youtube.

kindaspongey

Has kkjimbo been here since 2009? Anyway:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-great-chess-movie

https://brooklyncastle.com/

sempervirentz

thanks for the recommendations, kindaspongey. Will look into it!