Rate your top 5 films of 2005

sammy7386

Only Chess

28 Jan 06

RahimK

Edmonton, Alberta

Joined: 25 Nov 04
Moves: 2101

30 Jan 06

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
Game Over better only be getting number 3 because you haven't seen any other chess movies. It's full of sensationalist crap and misdirection.

I was going to put every single roman dvd, vhs I've seen before game over, but those are instructial chess movies.

My list was for chess moves which don't teach chess.

I didn't get what all the fuss was about with game over?

searching for fisher was wicked.

Draw? MOVE! You're losing, you just don't know it yet? I'm losing? Me, lose? NEVER, MOVE! and plunk plunk plunk =Queen then Queen CHECK and picks up his Queen!

best part of the movie.

powershaker

Hinesville, GA

Joined: 17 Aug 05
Moves: 12481

30 Jan 06

Originally posted by RahimK
I would go with these for chess movies:

1.searching for bobby fisher
2.Knight moves
3.Game over

They aren't movies to learn chess 🙂

What about GAME OVER? What's it about? I might rent it.

RahimK

Edmonton, Alberta

Joined: 25 Nov 04
Moves: 2101

30 Jan 06

Originally posted by powershaker
What about GAME OVER? What's it about? I might rent it.

Don't waste your money on it. It about Garry vs Deep blue. Barely any chess in it, moslty just yacking about how the machine was kept away from kasp and he suspected some human help on the computer side etc...

dottewell

Joined: 12 Jun 05
Moves: 14671

30 Jan 06

There is that bit in the Rocky film where Rocky goes to the Soviet Union to avenge the death of Apollo Creed.

Rocky's trainer is playing chess against a Russian "minder" and finishes the game with the words, "Checkmate, Comrade!"

Compelling.

Heroic Metool

São Paulo, Brazil

Joined: 28 Dec 05
Moves: 7191

01 Feb 06

Originally posted by BLReid
Silman wrote a pretty good article at his website regarding the chess game from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Not really a chess movie, but then this really isn't a Chess thread...

Do you have a link? I'd like to read that...

Grandmouster

ChessObsessed

Earth

Joined: 07 Mar 05
Moves: 21049

01 Feb 06

Originally posted by Heroic Metool
Do you have a link? I'd like to read that...

http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess.html

Natural Science

blunderer of pawns

Rhode (not an)Island

Joined: 17 Apr 04
Moves: 24785

01 Feb 06

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Originally posted by RahimK
I was going to put every single roman dvd, vhs I've seen before game over, but those are instructial chess movies.

My list was for chess moves which don't teach chess.

I didn't get what all the fuss was about with game over?

searching for fisher was wicked.

Draw? MOVE! You're losing, you just don't know it yet? I'm losing? Me, lose? NEVER, MOVE ...[text shortened]... nk plunk plunk =Queen then Queen CHECK and picks up his Queen!

best part of the movie.

I had never seen a more contrived chess position in my life. In reality, Josh won that game because his opponent fell for an opening trap, and the two later became best friends.