Just watched searching for bobby fischer.

Absolute amazing film, i really enjoyed it, quite inspiring.

Anyone got an opinion on this film, and is there any more films based on chess

Matthew

Yeah it was great movie i also enjoyed it so much i watched it a few times...

What happens at the end? Does everybody die? (I haven't seen it).

not sure if im aloud to say this but,

if anyone wants it, just download the torrent here http://www.mininova.org/tor/659442. and play it in real on player with the divx update

Hope you all enjoy

Matthew

everybody dies :( sorry

yeah searching for bobby fischer is a great film, there needs to be more chess films lol.

but im not sure as to this dying at the end thing ... or maybe im not getting the joke :S

lol

yeah im pretty bad at getting jokes loll.

fun fun fun.

loll

Other chess movies ...

King of chess

Knights of the South Bronx 

The prince of chess ( about Magnus Carlsen )

Game Over is a good chess movie (about Kasparov vs Deep Blue.)

The Luzhin defence is also a good movie.

Searching for Bobby Fischer is my favorite movie of all time. Want to visit washington square. lol

Yep your video store should have it under weekly movies...

yeah after i saw it i wanted to do the same, good film

I saw that film when it first came out. The funny thing is that I just realized that the guy who does the main Chess "Academy" on Chessmaster 11, Josh Waitzkin, is the real life kid from that film. I'd had wondered, from time to time, why they chose to brand their software around a mere IM, as opposed to someone the likes of an Anand or Magnus Carlsen. I suppose that their marketing team decided that the target audience of a beginner oriented chess game (especially one that has a console game version) would be more familiar with someone with their own youth oriented movie.

On another note, another chess themed movie that is rarely mentioned is the 1994 movie, "Fresh"   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109842/

Hello Matthew,

I also enjoyed viewing Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Additionally, you may find, as I did, the film entitled "Knights of the South Bronx" entertaining as well as inspirational.

SirDonald

We can't have that. Next thing you know, someone will start singing "Waltzing Matilda."

I also highly recommend the book of the same title on which the movie is based.  It's rather different from the movie.  Both are good, just different.

The movie The Luzhin Defence is based on the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov. Again, some license is taken with the movie, but both are good.

Knights of the South Bronx is a very inspiring movie even more so than Searching for Bobby Fischer and it shows how chess (movie style) changed people in real life.

If you happen to go to youtube you can watch the whole movie.  Someone put it on there in perfectly overlapping nine minute sections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkUjl8OByM