У розпал Холодної війни увага всієї планети прикута до «сутички століття» - матчу за звання чемпіона світу з шахів у Рейк'явіку. Бій між абсолютним чемпіоном Борисом Спаським і по-справжньому одержимим грою Боббі Фішером перетворюється на боротьбу за інтелектуальну перевагу двох наддержав. Права на програш немає. Спаському доводиться справлятися з безпрецедентним тиском. Геніальний розум Фішера, знервований параноєю, починає охоплювати безумство.
Фільм оповідає про дитячі роки відомого шахіста Джошуа Вайцкіна і про те, в яких умовах починалася його кар’єра. Учитель Джоша, Брюс Пандолфіні, бачить у ньому шахового генія, подібного на Боббі Фішера, і прагне прищепити йому агресивний стиль цього знаменитого майстра. Однак Джош, урешті-решт, знаходить свій власний шлях до перемоги.
The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and charismatic, but also rebellious, favorite son of the Soviet Union.
Під час великого турніру з шахів на невеликому острові хтось починає вбивати молодих жінок. Підозра поліції падає на лідера турніру Пітера Сандерсона і за ним починають стежити. Тим часом вбивця починає надсилати гросмейстеру повідомлення, в яких грає з ним партію в шахи, де кожна втрачена фігура це нове вбивство.
Computer genius and chess champion Ted Danson is lured into service by secret agent Eleanor Parker and becomes a reluctant hero thanks to a number of exploits with villainous Christopher Lee and his army of lethal blue-eyed blonde women.
From a young age Magnus Carlsen had aspirations of becoming a champion chess player. While many players seek out an intensely rigid environment to hone their skills, Magnus’ brilliance shines brightest when surrounded by his loving and supportive family. Through an extensive amount of archival footage and home movies, director Benjamin Ree reveals this young man’s unusual and rapid trajectory to the pinnacle of the chess world. This film allows the audience to not only peek inside this isolated community but also witness the maturation of a modern genius.
Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
Dabaru is a melodramatic tale about a young chess player named Surya who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata to become a grand master.
Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.
The film follows the rise of the chess player Maurice Ashley, the first black person to attain the title of Grandmaster.
Mikhail Tal. From a Far is a documentary exploring the unpredictable and tragic life of the genius world chess champion Mikhail Tal, Riga's native son. Mikhail Tal becomes the youngest world chess champion at 23. The same year, he was diagnosed with incurable kidney disease and given only one year to live. Through sheer will and reckless abandon he managed to live another 40 years, filling them with a string of remarkable chess successes, unexplainable failures, amorous conquests and a life-threatening game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
Two chess champions have a secret match to decide once and for all which of them is the better player.