From which movie is this famous chess playing scene? Bonus points if you can name the year the movie came out 🙂
Special thanks to Steve Grant for sending this one in!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Hollywood Chess Trivia
Dr No?
From Russia With Love
“From Russia With Love” 1963
That was too easy.
Now, for triple extra credit: where did they get the position that you see on the demo board?
Steve Grant
Boris Spassky vs. David Bronstein
USSR Championship, Lenigrad 1960
position on board is after 22…Kh7. One difference is that in the actual game there are pawns on c5 and d4. Bronstein won after Spassky’s next move 23 Qe4+.
Bronstein won after Spassky’s next move 23 Qe4+.
I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant to type 🙂 but yes you have all the other details correct!
Cute pun on Bronstein / Kronsteen (look closely at the demo board for the players’ names)?
I believe this is a scene from James Bond, the spy who shagged me I think… ghehe 😉 not sure of the year 😛
Ask Bob Basalla!
Martha Stewart?
I haven’t seen the movie (thanks to chess historian Frank Brady in a 1979 issue of Chess Life and Review for providing the information), but the (fictional) SPECTRE spy, a Russian, plsays White. When a SPECTRE agent gives him an angry lecture for not obeying a SPECTRE summons to go to work spying a few moves earlier, while the game was still in progress. The spy coolly answers that if he walked out on the game early, everyone would be suspicious of his line of reasoning, abandoning (and losing) a game where he was going to win in a few more moves. The handler has to live with that logic and the spy goes on about his business.
1964, bond film, with russia with love, jb.
love,
what happened to hou on the final, great jo kosteniuk,i wonder if susan will be the next wcc, next time??