Chess in TV

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Xeelfiar

Isn't a bit ridicoulos how chess is shown in TV? I mean, a few days ago I saw a Criminal Minds episode, and in that episode Spencer Reid announced mate in 12 after seeing the chessboard for like 1/10 of a second -.- In a The Mentalist episode Patrick Jane played a game blitzing every move (like less than 1 second per move), then announced mate in 7. Most of the checkmates shown in TV are simply fool's mate

hollumber

Yeah, I'm watching that Mentalist episode right now, it's really inaccurate. Seems like they probably looked up a GM game and just stated the moves. Also, at the beginning, they have this contentious dialog with their opening, but it doesn't make sense.

Jane: "Declining the gambit, interesting." (There's no gambit. c4 e6, Nf3 d5)

Jane plays d4, and the opponent says "Oh really?" like it's a surprise. Queen's gambit declined is one of the most common opening. That's probably why Jane mentioned declining the gambit, but it just didn't make sense at that time.

ChessTrekkie

And Be7 when there is a pawn in e7 :-)! Lol. Chess is not really that hard for a show writer to understand. 

chessuser999

Why

chessuser999

would you want to