Check this chess board from the Batman video game.

I've been playing this Batman video game, Arkham Knight, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a chess board as a prop in one location.

I've taken a couple screenshots so you could look at the position.

To me it looks like someone just arranged the pieces correctly but who doesn't really have an idea what positions are likely. Maybe I am wrong? In either case, take a look at the board and tell us what you think. It is in the links provided.

(Also maybe someone has an access to chess database and could check whether the developer of the game took this position from anywhere?)

http://i.imgur.com/j4V2rwr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZQd3ZCR.jpg

I could describe the context by request, but it would be a spoiler for the game in case you play video games.

 Here is the diagram, with black to move of course:

And here is the game:

Wow, so for once someone actually familiar with chess has contributed to its exposure in the video game. I've worked as a game tester at Sega once so I kind of follow games and play them frequently. Most chess props or features in games were very crude and incorrect. For example a couple recent games like that are Alien Isolation and Wolfenstein. By crude misrepresentations I mean white and black squares reversed and pieces in all the wrong places.

Since I am a fan of the Blade Runne film I totally see how it makes sense to use the so called "The Immortal Game", even if there are many games referred to with the same with a lower case letter.

It also does make sense in the context of Arkham Knight game from which I've taken the screenshot.

Thanks for pointing that out.

FirebrandX wrote:

It was also used as the final sequence in the chess game in Blade Runner. Ridley Scott later tried to deny it, but any chess enthusiast knows he copied it plain as day. It made perfect sense in the context of the movie anyway, since the game is referred to as "The Immortal Game".