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Films about chess, a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess).
The Masters of Disaster is a 1986 American short documentary film produced by Sonya Friedman. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. [2] The documentary focuses on a group of inner city children learning how to play chess. They prove adept at the game, going to a tournament and even getting to meet Pres. Ronald Reagan.
Several amateur chess players have been noted in other endeavors, while their lives and work have been influenced by the game of chess.. Woody Allen The film comedian and occasional player taught his adopted son Moses Farrow the game; [1] authored a comical epistolary short story titled "The Gossage-Vardebedian Papers" involving a chess game played via mail.
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On the way home after having to join the chess team without knowing how to play, while taking a detour through Washington Square Park, Max sees several people playing chess. The following day she asks Norman, who she had seen alone with a chess board, if he could teach her how to play. He initially discourages her, but her determination wins out.
Geri's Game was Pixar's first original short film since 1989, when Knick Knack was released. It was directed and written by Jan Pinkava, who joined the studio in 1993 to work on their TV commercials while the other directors and writers were preoccupied with the production of Toy Story, and had been continuously approaching executive producer Darla K. Anderson with the proposal that the studio ...
A Chess Dispute (1903), a one-minute comedy by British film pioneer Robert W. Paul. Earliest known film with a chess theme. Entr'acte (1924), a short Dadaist film by René Clair; Chess Fever (1925), a short Soviet comedy film featuring a cameo appearance by José Raúl Capablanca.
When Bimbo breaks into the castle, he engages Old King Cole in a fight, which results in King Cole's death, with Bimbo, Betty, Koko and the other chess characters parading along the chess board. The two men playing chess are shown to have been playing the game for so long that they grow large beards with a spider in a web between the two beards.