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Can anybody recommend any good chess films? Tried to rent "Searching For Bobby Fischer" yesterday. None of the stores had it. Any others?

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Originally posted by Harry00
Can anybody recommend any good chess films? Tried to rent "Searching For Bobby Fischer" yesterday. None of the stores had it. Any others?
Go to public games and watch RHP player games.

I watch Weyerstrass, seadevil and some others.

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umm-the seventh seal?

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Originally posted by Lolette
Go to public games and watch RHP player games.

I watch Weyerstrass, seadevil and some others.
Do you like watching paint dry too?


Try :- Chess - the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389851/


edit: English version ; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289895/

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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Do you like watching paint dry too?


Try :- Chess - the movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389851/
Yeah the movie Chess is worth a look ,if its the one i am thinking about it has the song (one night in Bankok) in it.

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Oh, who sang that? I remember working in a record store when that song came out? Somthing like "one night in Bangcok makes a hard man humble or something?

P.S. - If you lived here you'd like watching paint dry too.

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Listen to the musical: "chess"?

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luzhin defence was good. searching for bobby fischer was ok also, worth to look for. game over, that kasparov vs. IBM documentary, was an interesting psychological portrait of a middle-aged man.

none of the films about chess address primarily chess of course. that would be incredibly boring. nevertheless many people expect that, and get disappointed when it doesn't happen. nerds.

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This move was also very good.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104627/

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Originally posted by Harry00
Oh, who sang that? I remember working in a record store when that song came out? Somthing like "one night in Bangcok makes a hard man humble or something?

P.S. - If you lived here you'd like watching paint dry too.
Murray Head was the singer.
I would rather watch snail races or grass grow.

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
I can remember watching a film on TV years ago that was about some blokes playing blind chess in prison, can't remember much more about it or what it was called🙁 but it seemed good. ANyone know the one?
The chess novella

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The Chess Novella sounds good, but I don't see any copies available on the net.

P.S. - Saw a snail race once- it was the #24 Chevy

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Originally posted by Sicilian Smaug
You think that is the name of the movie I'm talking about? I tried searching for it but didn't find any movie by that name. Found one called 'The Luzhin Defence' but that doesn't mention prison.
That at last was the name of a book.

Thrown into prison, starts playing chess against himself in his thoughts, gets shizophrenic, comes out and plays chess like god. Tourny against a grandmaster and starts multiple games in his mind.

Sounds familiar to you ?