I'm watching a movie called White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon (circa late 1980's or early 1990's)
He's a wilderness guide for city kids and he plays a game of chess with the disgruntled kid.
The kid says "damn I took my hand of the piece...now I can't move it"
The guide says "it's ok"
The kid says..."no...play by the rules"
What? I rewound it and put subtitles on to be sure.
@booger saidThey must have meant "can't take it back" rather than "can't move it".
I'm watching a movie called White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon (circa late 1980's or early 1990's)
He's a wilderness guide for city kids and he plays a game of chess with the disgruntled kid.
The kid says "damn I took my hand of the piece...now I can't move it"
The guide says "it's ok"
The kid says..."no...play by the rules"
What? I rewound it and put subtitles on to be sure.
A general comment on chess scenes in movies:
It's almost like the directors aren't serious players and are subverting our game as a prop to make their characters look smart! đČ
From The West Wing:
On the one hand, it's great that they used a real chess opening name in the dialog, and even got some of the details about it right.
On the other hand, they named before the moves actually happened - after just 1.e4 e5 instead of the full 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4.
The majority of chess scenes on TV and in the films have error.
Board round the wrong way, illegal moves etc. But some have
been well thought out. The Sherlock Holmes series. 'Elementary'
had a chess scene which I used. Blog Post 351
@booger saidSadly, the producers usually get away with that when playing to American audiences. I've watched 5-6 you tube reactions to The Queens Gambit. The people reviewing the series like it a lot but keep repeating things like "I don't know the first thing about chess" (as if they are proud of that!) Chess is simply not part of American culture.
I'm watching a movie called White Water Summer with Kevin Bacon (circa late 1980's or early 1990's)
He's a wilderness guide for city kids and he plays a game of chess with the disgruntled kid.
The kid says "damn I took my hand of the piece...now I can't move it"
The guide says "it's ok"
The kid says..."no...play by the rules"
What? I rewound it and put subtitles on to be sure.
@bigdogg saidYou're probably right.
They must have meant "can't take it back" rather than "can't move it".
A general comment on chess scenes in movies:
It's almost like the directors aren't serious players and are subverting our game as a prop to make their characters look smart! đČ
The kid won the game for what it's worth.
Good movie too.
@mchill saidThat's right! It darn sure wasn't part of mine! I had a child's chess set in the late 70s, and I treasured it, but I was never coached by anyone. I think I had two friends in school who taught me the moves. We were like sub-100 ELO players. We only knew the moves. We never even heard of Bobby Fischer. (I have to say that it wasn't until 1980 that subtitles for TV became available). Even then I was 6 years old when the world heard about Bobby playing Russia, and no, I would never know until about 7-8 years ago. When the event happened in 1972, it would be another 9 months before anyone figured out that I'm deaf, and it would be another year and a half after that before I had enough English to understand basic things. I was a real villager in those days, in a small town of 2300 people in a county of 10,000 people at most. So yeah, it was simply not part of our culture where I lived.
Chess is simply not part of American culture.
@bigdogg saidIt's almost like the directors aren't serious players and are subverting our game as a prop to make their characters look smart! đČI'm sure this is true.
They must have meant "can't take it back" rather than "can't move it".
A general comment on chess scenes in movies:
It's almost like the directors aren't serious players and are subverting our game as a prop to make their characters look smart! đČ
The vast majority of chess scenes in non-chess films and t.v series' end up with someone declaring check mate
