best chess scene in TV history
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What is your favourite chess scene in any TV show, series, movie, documentary or real life interview, old footage and stuff like that. It doesnt have to be from chess based entertainment, but it has to be chess related. For me its definitely Phoebe and Joey playing chess scene from Friends and from real life it has to be any Magnus Carlsen's interview as he can be funny. Second best is whole Queens gambit series as I cant pick only one scene from it.
The game against HAL9000 in Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssea"
The chess game from the film, the Thomas Crown Affair (the original)
Then of course 3D chess on Star Trek with Spock, Kirk etc
Lawrence Fishburne in Searching for Bobby Fischer
I'll pick one from The Queen's Gambit, although it's not easy. (spoiler alert) When the Russian extended his hand to her in defeat.....gave me chills. In fact, it just gave me chills again thinking about it. Or maybe that's the covid I'm now fighting.
Or Penny beating Leonard on Big Bang Theory
I like the one in Sherlock: A Game of Shadows between Holmes and Moriarty. It's based on an actual game and I think GothamChess has a video covering it.
