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Pawn Sacrifice
2015 · Film · 115 min
Directed by Edward Zwick
During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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There are parallels to Fischer but if you want that movie "Pawn Sacrifice" is a decent movie.
As for realism when it comes to chess, as a (former - covid bleh) competitive league player they absolutely nailed the "feel" of the Chess world for me, better than anything else I've seen - yes they compressed the games and showed players moving far too quickly but that was a necessary compromise - hard to show a 7 hour game in real time as a TV show.
The camaraderie and eccentricities of the Chess world where displayed really well.
Marketing my have been an issue. My father and I would both have been interested, and this is the first either of us have heard of it. He spends a great deal of time on chess computing forums so I have no idea how this one slipped by us. Tobey Mcguire?!? 'Pawn Sacrifice' is probably the biggest budget chess movie in 2 decades!