Crazychessplaya wrote:
"Queen to Play" might be interesting:
I watched Queen to Play this morning. Very good. Thanks.
Movies about chess?
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Vechtschaak wrote:
@GWTR
The Dark Horse is a very riveting movie. Thanks again.
Mar 7, 2018
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GWTR schreef:
Vechtschaak wrote:
@GWTR
The Dark Horse is a very riveting movie. Thanks again.
You're welcome. And glad to hear you liked it!
I remember one of the Harry Potter movies had the kids playing chess as one of the tests/challenges they must pass in order to get to somewhere. Unfortunately, I didn't know enough about chess back then to know what was going on.
Mar 8, 2018
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IM Jeremy Silman (author of chess books) was consulted for that “game.” (In Harry Potter)
Interesting, now I'm curious enough to look up that game. Thx.
The best movie I have seen was the Documentary "The Great Chess Movie".
old97 wrote:
The best movie I have seen was the Documentary "The Great Chess Movie".
Queen of Katwe is a good one, also Pawn Sacrifice.
Pawn Sacrifice is the only one I have seen till now.
It is about the journey of GM Bobby Fischer during the era of cold war.
Mar 9, 2018
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GWTR wrote:
old97 wrote:
The best movie I have seen was the Documentary "The Great Chess Movie".
Thanks for the link, Keith. It's not a great copy, but since I've never seen this documentary before that doesn't concern me right now. I didn't know there was a documentary on the Statham sponsored Lone Pine tournaments of the 1970s; now I do.
Searching for Bobby Fischer, although the game analysis in that endgame sucked. That position was a theoretical draw:
The REAL endgame can be found on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHE9kgXX1YA
Josh himself does the analysis
GWTR wrote:
old97 wrote:
The best movie I have seen was the Documentary "The Great Chess Movie".
Thanks, old97 and GWTR for this. Looks very interesting so far. Was even able to grab a screen shot of Karpov shooting pool.
Also, thanks Vechtschaak for the tip on The Dark Horse. GWTR's review, "very riveting" is very applicable.
Apr 29, 2018
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PoolPlayerToo schreef:
GWTR wrote:
old97 wrote:
The best movie I have seen was the Documentary "The Great Chess Movie".
Thanks, old97 and GWTR for this. Looks very interesting so far. Was even able to grab a screen shot of Karpov shooting pool.
Also, thanks Vechtschaak for the tip on The Dark Horse. GWTR's review, "very riveting" is very applicable.
NP! Glad to hear you enjoyed The Dark Horse as well 
I'm Vechtschaak, but i changed my username in case you're wondering 
i know one! how about- "your face" ?
Interesting article about chess in movies:
https://medium.com/s/story/why-movies-get-chess-wrong-a1a84750c2d6
GWTR wrote:
Interesting article about chess in movies:
https://medium.com/s/story/why-movies-get-chess-wrong-a1a84750c2d6
That was a great read. Thank you!
if they reshot that last scene and put a more complicated chess position. .you would recommend it? lol
Searching for Bobby was a bad movie before the final scene, and then it got stupid. Not worthy of being considered a "chess movie".
I liked parts of the movie, bit it seemed to me to be disrespectful to chess (as a competitive activity) to introduce the draw-offer idea.