An old silent movie chess comedy

I've never heard of it before today.
Does anyone else have any old chess gems??

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Spielmann, Capablanca, Marshall, Reti to name a few. 🙂

I've got a couple dozen chess related videos. These include Chess Fever and The Seventh Seal, but most are just short clips, for example Stewie vs Brian on Family Guy, the wonderful Chess for Girls sketch on Saturday Night Live, Korchnoi losing to Sofia Polgar at blitz. I also have quite a lot of audio files ranging from entire plays (e.g. The Luneburg Variation) to a 1938 interview with Alekhine. My favourite is this short clip of Korchnoi describing Karpov:
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Luckily this titanic struggle was recorded for posterity.

Richard v Hilter, London 1994.

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Chess for Girls!
(bah! another video site which can't host this video)

Hm, old news for me, though (and eager shess lovers in former Yugoslavia).

The film maintined to be "an undiscovered jewel", that is repeteadly re-discovered. 🙂

The director - Pudovkin - is acutally a godfather, father and good uncle of Hollywood-editinng style, it's Pudovkin's theory of editiing that was adopted in Hollywood not that of Eisenstein.

Continuiy - that 's what Pudovkin had invented.

As for the film, it was just a relaxing "etude" for grandmaster Pudovkin, at the time he made it, but it deservedly gained cult-status for several raesons.
- it's a document of great GMs of the time - because it cintains vparts of (lost?) documentary from Mocow tournament.
- it' s a film which uses chess "properly", not just as a symbol for smart people (who are lunatics as mad mathematicians etc.)
- it's a teaching example of film editing
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Play over this in silence - it's a chess tragic/comedy from Rd1 of the RHP Championship.

Black's 12th move emptied the cinema.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Play over this in silence - it's a chess tragic/comedy from Rd1 of the RHP Championship.

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Chess for Girls!
(bah! another video site which can't host this video)

Originally posted by greenpawn34
Play over this in silence - it's a chess tragic/comedy from Rd1 of the RHP Championship.

Black's 12th move emptied the cinema.

[pgn]
[Event "2013 Championship"]
[Site "http://www.redhotpawn.com"]
[Date "2013.06.06"]
[EndDate "2013.07.18"]
[Round "1"]
[WhiteRating "1225"]
[BlackRating "1237"]
[WhiteElo "1225"]
[BlackElo "1237"]
[Result " ...[text shortened]... 3 10. Ke1e2 exd4 11. Ra1c1 d3 12. Ke2e3 d2 13. Rc1xc3 {White went onto to very easy win.} [/pgn]

George Costanza playing chess:
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Originally posted by woodypusher
George Costanza playing chess:
http://youtu.be/yc4IPH7XQBA