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Chess Movie: Queen to Play

Chess Movie: Queen to Play

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I just watched the French movie “Queen to Play” (“Joueuse” in French), which I got on DVD from Netflix last night.

I wrote a review of it on my chess blog

http://tacticstime.com/?p=1039

You can watch the trailer on there as well. I think that most chess players would like the movie.

Cheers,
Tim

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Originally posted by TimmyBx
I just watched the French movie “Queen to Play” (“Joueuse” in French), which I got on DVD from Netflix last night.

I wrote a review of it on my chess blog

http://tacticstime.com/?p=1039

You can watch the trailer on there as well. I think that most chess players would like the movie.

Cheers,
Tim
Ebert likes it too. Available for instant play at Netflix.

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I saw it on Netflix. A very nice movie.

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This is one of the games featured in the movie. The main character plays the 24th move. A real brilliancy!

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Beautiful actress. Delightful movie. I do love how she was clutching the queen in her lap during the tournament. I also enjoyed that it was a chess movie free from, "It's there, Josh! Just 12 moves deep! You can find it!"

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I'll look out for it. I wonder though.
In the game quoted, TimmyBx correctly spots it is indeed
the famous game Sveshnikov - Scherbakov. Russian Ch. 1991,

Do they give the players a mention in the credits? I think they should.

The same combo has of course been played on here.

luskin - Rowlchess RHP 2007 Game 3161616

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I've always thought that these movies would be so much better if I could see the games.

Thanks for the game. Now I want to see the movie again.