Long Live the Queen. The movie was written/directed by Max Euwe's granddaughter. Everything just works, even the responses of all the different players/audience members make sense in the context of what's happening on the board and their skill level.
@@sensorcato There are probably seven or eight films of his you could mention as his best, and I wouldn't be able to argue against you. In my opinion Wild Strawberries is his best.
The Seventh Seal is a classic of Existentialist literature. The knight proposes various ploys in the real life scenes in an effort to stave off Death. In one scene, he proposes an alliance with the Bishop (also played by Ingmar Bergman). Note the chess analogy, however, the point is that even the church does not prevent human death per se. Through the entire movie, characters are dying from the black plague. Death and the Knight have several other scenes of playing chess, but the positions are not clarified. In the end, all of the characters arrive at the knights castle, where death appears and takes them all. One should note the (philosophical) position taken by the Knight's squire, that death is inevitable and can only be met with courage, as befits a knight. The philosophical fallacy of the theme is best countered by Tolstoy, in My Confession, regarding the algebraic equations that have no solution because they do not properly consider the infinite factors.
5:55 giving a passing grade to a chess game where the black moves 2 consecutive times, first 4:21 second 5:19 10:30 giving a passing grade to a chess game where a check was either wrong called or non avoided, check called at 10:04, responded at 10:10 with a rook move and calling check without capturing nor blocking (so either the black checking piece was still treating the king or there was never a check)
@random guy "the guy who made the move at 5:19 was not present, when the last move was made" that is true, but he could ask who's turn is to play, I am just pointing out the master gave a passing grade when there was a clear mistake. With the example at 10:04 even if the master pointed out that there was a mistake (magically skipping moves is a mistake regardless of how good is the conversation), he is still giving a passing grade to a mistaken scene. Also even if the game is accurate and you just film some moves and skip others, the fact that they are calling "check" one move after the last called "check" while making it seems consecutive moves is the part that is odd and quickly points out the mistake. I mean you can actually respond a check with another check that could lead to a mate in 6, but they could also search for a game in the databases where that happen and have a realistic game.
@@fcolecumberri Passing grade doesn't mean perfect, moron. He weighed these factors and decided it passed. If you didn't know this guy's name and rank before he said anything, you're pretty obviously not part of the chess community.
Seventh Seal is a early cinematic masterpiece by Ingmar Bergman. Chess scenes reappear through the movie, when their chess battle is a metaphor for the struggle of life itself. One of my favorite films and, for me, the most artistic portrayal ever of chess.
The chess scenes from the TV show 'Bones' in which Lance Sweets plays against Carl Magnuson (Magnus carlsen switched. lol) would no doubt get a thumb up. the dialogue is well written too... "you had a chance to win with a queen sacrifice." murderer: "I didn't see it." "I don't believe that for a second." And later it turns out he was protecting his own mother. brilliant episode.
Danny, do watch The Seventh Seal, it's a classic and a great film. The actual chess in it is mediocre at best, though the crew actually played it during the shooting. Also, if you ever do any more of those, two anime come to mind: the chess match in No Game No Life, and an episode of Sailor Moon that features a position that's actually from one of Fischer's most famous games.
There are some scenes in Always Sunny in Philadelphia (episode "Flowers for Charlie") and Brooklyn 99 ( episode 4 Movements") that might be worth a look
I think the chess scene from Criminal Minds should be a fail actually. Unless I'm mistaken, he plays a move as black, spins the board around, dialogue back and forth and then the other character sits down and moves as black! So since black moves twice in a row, it gets a fail from me!
Yeah he didn’t go about in a very open minded manner imo, and Kindom Hearts isn’t even an anime just has some anime style characters. Hell, it has GOOFY AND MICKEY MOUSE.
@@benjaminblack91 it's been awhile since I've seen it, but from what I remember, it's decent chess at parts, and only downright appalling during the end of the game with Schizel. I could be misremembering though
There's a scene in the Amazon Prime show 'Hunters' starring Al Pacino in which Pacino is meant to be pretty good at chess and plays against the young upstart protagonist. Pacino plays as white. The game, if I remember correctly: 1. g4 e5 2. f3 Qh4# Pacino behaves as if he's stunned by the protagonist's brilliance. Tbf I think the chess is all technically accurate, but like... man.
There's a scene from Malcolm in The Middle that's pretty intriguing as well. After the game, Malcolm yells something about an exposed queen bishop in the Nimzowitsch defense
Rh3 is brilliant! But I am sure I saw that before. They took a real game or a real combination for this scene. EDIT: 11:35 Guy is so pissed at the computer declaring checkmate when it made the wrong move that he destroys it before it malfunctions in worse ways. He learnt his lesson from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
For "The Thing", thumbs up is correct. Here's why: The computer vocalizes: B-N4, N-R3 K-R1, R-N6# Looking at the board shown at 11:22 we see that White has his only bishop on a2 so the move "B-N4" doesn't make sense. Next the White's king is in check by the Rook on g4 so the move "N-R3" doesn't make sense. The computer seems to get "K-R1" correct but follows this up with "R-N6#?". Kurt then fries the computer with booze. What's going on in this scene? If we listen to Kurt he says "Poor baby you're starting to lose it aren't you". Kurt isn't talking about the computer losing the game, he's saying that the computer is no longer capable of playing chess, it's broken. The computer jumps between different positions, it reads out moves that are not descriptive of what is actually played & it is also possibly making illegal moves (at the end of the scene Kurt calls the computer a "Cheating b*+ch"). Given all of these errors by the computer, the reason this is a thumbs up is because Kurt's character knows how to play chess & he knows the computer is wrong. If the film would have flashed this nonsensical play by the audience & if Kurt's character would have accepted it ("Darn you beat me again!"), competent players in the audience would know that the whole scene is BS. Since Kurt calls out the computer's mistakes he is communicating that just like the audience, he sees the same mistakes we do. Pouring booze to short circuit the computer is a little extreme but understandable. No one should play chess against a broken computer player. I think we can all thumbs up that!
11:23 There were three possible checkmates i could see, one was moving the top bishop down to the left knight 7 square attacking the king bc the black rook blocked off both right knight squares 1 and 2 and the 2nd bishop blocked the right rook 2 square around the king trapping him in rook 1, the 2nd mate was moving the queen to right knight 3 imitating if the bishop moved to left knight 7 attacking diagonally, and the 3rd mate was what Daniel said about moving the queen to right rook 4.
Fun stuff....don't forget the following 3: 1. TV Colombo had several chess scenes in one of the episodes 2. The original Mission Impossible with Peter Graves (1960's?) had a chess scene 3. TV House MD played against a chess 'brat'
You should checkout the climatic chess battle between Prof James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in the movie "Sherlock Holmes - Game of shadows" The game was in fact taken from 1966 game between Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian. (Moriarty playing Larsen's side and Holmes playing Petrosian's) Sherlock's queen sac which Petrosian really tried was accepted by Moriarty in the game and Moriarty went on to lose the game in few moves. But in real Larsen rejected the sac and in fact went on to win the game.
The Luzhin Defense is the clear winner here. Really great mating combo! Recommendation: Amazon original series Hunters has several chess scenes in the first season, one of which involves a horribly wrong explanation of the Queen's Gambit.
Except that if White had played Kf2 instead of Kg4 (which he surely would have if he had had a whole night to analyze the position), the fiance might not have been able to win the game...
As has been pointed out, the seventh seal has the chess game interspersed throughout the film. However, to the best of my knowledge there's no continuity of positions from one chess scene to the next and it was largely random/a position reached by some crew members on that day of shooting
Here’s four more chess movies you should try out, Knights of the Bronx, Endgame, The Dark Horse, and The Queen of Katwe. FYI, there’s more clips of Criminal Minds of Reed interacting and playing chess with a young player who was playing by himself with a turntable style chess board. And another TV chess scene in Person of Interest where Finch is playing and teaching the Machine chess, the game's history, and metaphor in human society.
Also there are lots of chess scenes in the television series Lost! and in Mr. Robot season 2. There's also an episode of the simpsons focused on chess.
Have a watch of the Columbo episode, "The Most Dangerous Match", in which an impromptu chess game is begun with things like salt shakers on a restaurant tablecloth. If you can handle it, watch the Mission: Impossible episode "A Game of Chess" in which a computer that is unbeatable at chess is used to bait… oh, it's just too silly. But worth a watch for fun anyway.
The sci fi time travel movie "time after time" also got the chess board turned around during the first part of the movie, I remember seeing it, how it erked me for nearly the rest of the movie, that is until HG Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) pulled the key out of his time machine.
To be fair, Kramnik missed a mate in 1 vs some computer (I forget the exact game), and I've seen Carlsen miss a mate in 1 when playing blitz. The funny thing about Carlsen was that he moved and said, "I don't think my opponent has anything here." Ha, we are all human after all.
An episode of Columbo called "The Most Dangerous Match", in which the night *before* a big match the two contenders - the current world champion, and the man who many thought should have been if not for illness - have a game or two! Nice combination to win, and the opening nightmare sequence is pretty cool.
What real game is your extract from The Luzhin Defence (2000) based on? Wikipedia's article on that film mentions the ends of two games featured in the film, and identifies one of them as Vidmar--Euwe, but doesn't identify the game you showed.
If you want to get disappointed, in the series named scorpion which is about a team which consists of geniusses (great series btw) there is a whole episode about a chess tournament
13:30 Lmfaooooo, poor Danny must have been scared for life by some anime at some some point. You can hear the PTSD in his voice 😂 We need a chess anime!
How did you miss the film Pawn Sacrifice? And the famous Boris Spassky king's gambit game recreated at the start of the James Bond film From Russia With Love?
There was a tv show called endgame. Amazing show about a world champion becoming a detective. Shame it only got one season. You should look at this show. I warn you though it has a lot of chess scenes so I wouldn’t expect a commentary on all of them lol. It all seems to be legit in terms of chess.
The Mentalist s02e21 has a sort of blindfold/correspondence game going on for an entire episode. Wouldn't mind seeing that pieced together here. Also, if you want the cringy stuff there is another episode where the protagonist, after a passing glance at a game, says some nonsense like "your spanish attack is far too weak for his Sicilian defense"
In russia, probably a lot of people, even amateur chess players know this Rh3 at the end of Luzhin's defence. why? because they still have a culture where a lot of people actually read in public transport instead of staring at their cellphone. I'm slightly surprised that Danny, as a respected IM, didn't know about the combination from the game Dr. Turati vs Luzhin if he read the book. It's always intriguing for us chess players to find some real chess gem in books or movies!
I know you already looked at X-Men But if you could look at the scene where Professor X and Magneto play chess and get angry, stand up face to face and stop moving the pieces physically but certainly continue the match verbally saying moves I'm not sure but I think it's from one of the first two original X-Men movies
Watch Part 1 of our chess movie/tv scene breakdown here!
RUclips.com/watch?v=UWo68KgwQzE
The Mentalist
Why not get a grand master to do it
part 3 would feature Naka in billions 5x2
Cheesbase did an article on all the games shown here, they're all real games
Long Live the Queen. The movie was written/directed by Max Euwe's granddaughter. Everything just works, even the responses of all the different players/audience members make sense in the context of what's happening on the board and their skill level.
If you guys end up doing a 3rd one, you should look at the Sherlock Holmes movies!
And quantum chess between Dr. Hawking vs Paul Rodd
Yesss and pawn sacrifice
I was just about to say that only
Sherlock Holmes faces death starring Basil Rathbone, chess scene.
"YODHA", "SPANISH MASALA"
what ive learned: if u r behind: just say (after making a move) "mate in 6, wanna suffer thru it?"
it might just work 😇
Seventh Seal is not a single scene about chess. The game goes on throughout the whole movie. You'd have to watch to the end.
So that scene is the prologue..?
@@xooperz yes
You have to watch The Seventh Seal. It’s truly one of the masterpieces of cinema history. We’re talking Ingmar Bergman here after all.
Persona is better.
@@sensorcato There are probably seven or eight films of his you could mention as his best, and I wouldn't be able to argue against you. In my opinion Wild Strawberries is his best.
I think the chess is a bit off, but it's a great film!
@@HawkOfGP maybe a bit off but the bit where death tricks the knight into revealing his strategy is hilarious
and its parody in Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure is amusing.
3:07 After Rh3 is played, the clock isn't pressed!
I watch your streams all the time nice to see you here
you can hear it get pressed in the background a bit after
Please cover the chess scene from House MD where he plays against a kid. It involves a beautiful mating sacrifice!
Brandon Neifert- the game never ends, house says he wouldn’t play the move the kid thought he would that House would not lose . It’s left open ended.
The Seventh Seal is a classic of Existentialist literature. The knight proposes various ploys in the real life scenes in an effort to stave off Death. In one scene, he proposes an alliance with the Bishop (also played by Ingmar Bergman). Note the chess analogy, however, the point is that even the church does not prevent human death per se. Through the entire movie, characters are dying from the black plague.
Death and the Knight have several other scenes of playing chess, but the positions are not clarified.
In the end, all of the characters arrive at the knights castle, where death appears and takes them all.
One should note the (philosophical) position taken by the Knight's squire, that death is inevitable and can only be met with courage, as befits a knight.
The philosophical fallacy of the theme is best countered by Tolstoy, in My Confession, regarding the algebraic equations that have no solution because they do not properly consider the infinite factors.
11:33 Danny got biased by the alcohol machine death. It was actually a thumb down 😅
yeah the board changed dramatically between shots
Pouring alcohol into machine is a good move. Mate in 1 vs AlphaZero.
Why do i keep hearing "rook to knight 6" please tell me hahaha
5:55 giving a passing grade to a chess game where the black moves 2 consecutive times, first 4:21 second 5:19
10:30 giving a passing grade to a chess game where a check was either wrong called or non avoided, check called at 10:04, responded at 10:10 with a rook move and calling check without capturing nor blocking (so either the black checking piece was still treating the king or there was never a check)
@random guy "the guy who made the move at 5:19 was not present, when the last move was made" that is true, but he could ask who's turn is to play, I am just pointing out the master gave a passing grade when there was a clear mistake.
With the example at 10:04 even if the master pointed out that there was a mistake (magically skipping moves is a mistake regardless of how good is the conversation), he is still giving a passing grade to a mistaken scene. Also even if the game is accurate and you just film some moves and skip others, the fact that they are calling "check" one move after the last called "check" while making it seems consecutive moves is the part that is odd and quickly points out the mistake. I mean you can actually respond a check with another check that could lead to a mate in 6, but they could also search for a game in the databases where that happen and have a realistic game.
@@fcolecumberri Passing grade doesn't mean perfect, moron. He weighed these factors and decided it passed. If you didn't know this guy's name and rank before he said anything, you're pretty obviously not part of the chess community.
Seventh Seal is a early cinematic masterpiece by Ingmar Bergman. Chess scenes reappear through the movie, when their chess battle is a metaphor for the struggle of life itself. One of my favorite films and, for me, the most artistic portrayal ever of chess.
6:28 NEVER PLAY F6!
Thank you Ben Finegold.
f6, Does Bxc6 xc6 Nxe5 works?
Raaar!
Very suspicious
afbdreds kd7 and you're down a piece
6:29 violates Finegold's Rule!
I know right? Terrible.
The truth hurts
The answer is fries
+ tax
The chess scenes and dialogue in Season 2 of Mr.Robot is really well executed. You guys should review it.
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The chess scenes from the TV show 'Bones' in which Lance Sweets plays against Carl Magnuson (Magnus carlsen switched. lol) would no doubt get a thumb up. the dialogue is well written too... "you had a chance to win with a queen sacrifice."
murderer: "I didn't see it."
"I don't believe that for a second."
And later it turns out he was protecting his own mother. brilliant episode.
There is an episode of LEXX where the entire 40 mins is a chess game with talking heads and a very nice checkmate- season 4 episode 18
sherlock holmes: game of shadows has a pretty good/relevant game at the end
Chess scene from episode 1 of code geass, please do ittt
Danny, do watch The Seventh Seal, it's a classic and a great film. The actual chess in it is mediocre at best, though the crew actually played it during the shooting.
Also, if you ever do any more of those, two anime come to mind: the chess match in No Game No Life, and an episode of Sailor Moon that features a position that's actually from one of Fischer's most famous games.
Ngnl is gonna get Danny crawling lmao
There are some scenes in Always Sunny in Philadelphia (episode "Flowers for Charlie") and Brooklyn 99 ( episode 4 Movements") that might be worth a look
Columbo - "The Most Dangerous Match". Grandmaster falls to fools mate during a simultaneous. Inside joke, very easy to miss.
I think the chess scene from Criminal Minds should be a fail actually.
Unless I'm mistaken, he plays a move as black, spins the board around, dialogue back and forth and then the other character sits down and moves as black! So since black moves twice in a row, it gets a fail from me!
Good catch 👍
Fresh is one of my favorite movies.
Hoping for Code Geass in part 3, but worried since Danny apparently doesn't vibe with anime
I think most parts have chess
Yeah he didn’t go about in a very open minded manner imo, and Kindom Hearts isn’t even an anime just has some anime style characters. Hell, it has GOOFY AND MICKEY MOUSE.
Code Geass has some of the worst chess ever. None of the positions make any sense.
Benjamin Black is that so? I haven’t seen it but if that’s the case then them having code geass would leave a bad taste in his mouth for sure lol.
@@benjaminblack91 it's been awhile since I've seen it, but from what I remember, it's decent chess at parts, and only downright appalling during the end of the game with Schizel. I could be misremembering though
Fresh is a great film.
Recommended!
Thanks for your videos!
There's a scene in the Amazon Prime show 'Hunters' starring Al Pacino in which Pacino is meant to be pretty good at chess and plays against the young upstart protagonist.
Pacino plays as white. The game, if I remember correctly:
1. g4 e5
2. f3 Qh4#
Pacino behaves as if he's stunned by the protagonist's brilliance.
Tbf I think the chess is all technically accurate, but like... man.
lol, getting checkmated by a Fool's Mate? Doesn't sound like Pacino is that good at chess to me.
There's a scene from Malcolm in The Middle that's pretty intriguing as well. After the game, Malcolm yells something about an exposed queen bishop in the Nimzowitsch defense
You could also have a look at some chess scenes from "Outlander"
particularly, season 2, episode 4
but there's one in season 4, episode 6 as well
In the criminal minds clip, the main character rotated the board after making his move, then the new player makes a move again for the same color.
3:40
Kramnik and Ivanchuk: allow us to introduce ourselves
Britsh GM Jon Speelman was the guy who advised and composed the end combination. Maybe best chess movie.
The Luzon Defence that is. Nabokov story.
Danny was composed and professional for 1.9 episodes, then kingdom hearts happened and real Danny broke through 😂
Rh3 is brilliant! But I am sure I saw that before. They took a real game or a real combination for this scene.
EDIT: 11:35 Guy is so pissed at the computer declaring checkmate when it made the wrong move that he destroys it before it malfunctions in worse ways. He learnt his lesson from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
The last one was from Kingdom Hearts, a game series on the Playstation.
The seventh seal is one of the greatest movies ever made..
And there are probbably two more chess scenes..
For "The Thing", thumbs up is correct. Here's why:
The computer vocalizes:
B-N4, N-R3
K-R1, R-N6#
Looking at the board shown at 11:22 we see that White has his only bishop on a2 so the move "B-N4" doesn't make sense. Next the White's king is in check by the Rook on g4 so the move "N-R3" doesn't make sense. The computer seems to get "K-R1" correct but follows this up with "R-N6#?". Kurt then fries the computer with booze.
What's going on in this scene? If we listen to Kurt he says "Poor baby you're starting to lose it aren't you". Kurt isn't talking about the computer losing the game, he's saying that the computer is no longer capable of playing chess, it's broken. The computer jumps between different positions, it reads out moves that are not descriptive of what is actually played & it is also possibly making illegal moves (at the end of the scene Kurt calls the computer a "Cheating b*+ch").
Given all of these errors by the computer, the reason this is a thumbs up is because Kurt's character knows how to play chess & he knows the computer is wrong. If the film would have flashed this nonsensical play by the audience & if Kurt's character would have accepted it ("Darn you beat me again!"), competent players in the audience would know that the whole scene is BS. Since Kurt calls out the computer's mistakes he is communicating that just like the audience, he sees the same mistakes we do.
Pouring booze to short circuit the computer is a little extreme but understandable. No one should play chess against a broken computer player. I think we can all thumbs up that!
You missed the chess scene from the Wire.
Opening scene from “From Russia with Love”.
the Luzhin defense: Danny you should watch whole movie
Fresh is a fantastic film. One of my faves
Analyse the next chess scenes from seventh seal
Loved seeing the KH3 scene! And don't feel bad, it isn't a real chess set. The pieces are representing characters roles in the storyline
11:23 There were three possible checkmates i could see, one was moving the top bishop down to the left knight 7 square attacking the king bc the black rook blocked off both right knight squares 1 and 2 and the 2nd bishop blocked the right rook 2 square around the king trapping him in rook 1, the 2nd mate was moving the queen to right knight 3 imitating if the bishop moved to left knight 7 attacking diagonally, and the 3rd mate was what Daniel said about moving the queen to right rook 4.
The movie Fresh, I feel like I have similar body movement as the boy, while taking pieces and hitting the clock
Fun stuff....don't forget the following 3:
1. TV Colombo had several chess scenes in one of the episodes
2. The original Mission Impossible with Peter Graves (1960's?) had a chess scene
3. TV House MD played against a chess 'brat'
Pinchcliffe Grand Prix has a classic chess scene
I'll definitely watch the part 3.
Hope u guys will make one. Cheers!
Morgan Freeman as “The Boss” in Lucky Number Sleven. Playing on a rare and expensive chess set.
You should checkout the climatic chess battle between Prof James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in the movie "Sherlock Holmes - Game of shadows"
The game was in fact taken from 1966 game between Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian.
(Moriarty playing Larsen's side and Holmes playing Petrosian's)
Sherlock's queen sac which Petrosian really tried was accepted by Moriarty in the game and Moriarty went on to lose the game in few moves.
But in real Larsen rejected the sac and in fact went on to win the game.
The Luzhin Defense is the clear winner here. Really great mating combo!
Recommendation: Amazon original series Hunters has several chess scenes in the first season, one of which involves a horribly wrong explanation of the Queen's Gambit.
Except that if White had played Kf2 instead of Kg4 (which he surely would have if he had had a whole night to analyze the position), the fiance might not have been able to win the game...
I love these chess in movies series.i thought the movie "fresh" was really good.
As has been pointed out, the seventh seal has the chess game interspersed throughout the film. However, to the best of my knowledge there's no continuity of positions from one chess scene to the next and it was largely random/a position reached by some crew members on that day of shooting
Here’s four more chess movies you should try out, Knights of the Bronx, Endgame, The Dark Horse, and The Queen of Katwe.
FYI, there’s more clips of Criminal Minds of Reed interacting and playing chess with a young player who was playing by himself with a turntable style chess board.
And another TV chess scene in Person of Interest where Finch is playing and teaching the Machine chess, the game's history, and metaphor in human society.
Pause 10:58 white queen missing .. next scene .. white queen is there ..
They might of mistakingly filmed this backwards .
Haven't looked yet
With these two videos, I got me a nice list of movies to watch or rewatch!
Also there are lots of chess scenes in the television series Lost! and in Mr. Robot season 2. There's also an episode of the simpsons focused on chess.
Fresh, that's what I like.
Fresh is the most underrated movies of the 90s. Powerful film.
You guys should also do the original Starsky and Hutch chess scene
Have a watch of the Columbo episode, "The Most Dangerous Match", in which an impromptu chess game is begun with things like salt shakers on a restaurant tablecloth.
If you can handle it, watch the Mission: Impossible episode "A Game of Chess" in which a computer that is unbeatable at chess is used to bait… oh, it's just too silly. But worth a watch for fun anyway.
Max von Sydow in the 7th Seal
IM Rench may also enjoy Bennets Zugzwang. A quick read and chess heavy read for a crime novel
yes awesome! thank you danny, watched both parts just to see one of my favorite movies featured! Fresh!
The sci fi time travel movie "time after time" also got the chess board turned around during the first part of the movie, I remember seeing it, how it erked me for nearly the rest of the movie, that is until HG Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) pulled the key out of his time machine.
My favorite sherlock holmes games of shadows
In Mr. Robot they do the theoretical quickest stalemate possible
To be fair, Kramnik missed a mate in 1 vs some computer (I forget the exact game), and I've seen Carlsen miss a mate in 1 when playing blitz. The funny thing about Carlsen was that he moved and said, "I don't think my opponent has anything here." Ha, we are all human after all.
An episode of Columbo called "The Most Dangerous Match", in which the night *before* a big match the two contenders - the current world champion, and the man who many thought should have been if not for illness - have a game or two! Nice combination to win, and the opening nightmare sequence is pretty cool.
In bladerunner if I recall they are playing the last moves of the Immortal
4:30. Bent over laughing and I drooled!
Come on lads give me some Futurama.
SmartyPantsChess Yes! There’s some good ones. Dr. Zoidberg trying to decide on a piece was pretty good :)
Danny keeping it fresh with his puns
The Wire has a pretty cool chess scene.
What real game is your extract from The Luzhin Defence (2000) based on? Wikipedia's article on that film mentions the ends of two games featured in the film, and identifies one of them as Vidmar--Euwe, but doesn't identify the game you showed.
If you want to get disappointed, in the series named scorpion which is about a team which consists of geniusses (great series btw) there is a whole episode about a chess tournament
Loved it!
YOO guys no mr robot pls do it in part 3
13:30 Lmfaooooo, poor Danny must have been scared for life by some anime at some some point. You can hear the PTSD in his voice 😂 We need a chess anime!
Something similar to 3-gatsu no Lion but for chess
How about "From Russia With Love", "Blazing Saddles", and "History of the world part I"?
I just saw Part 3, thanks for listening!
I don't know which was better. Samuel L Jackson playing chess in Fresh or in Searching for Bobby Fischer...
8:03 "I'm not having my time wasted by some half-ass-fish-cake opponent today".
Roasted!!! XD
How did you miss the film Pawn Sacrifice? And the famous Boris Spassky king's gambit game recreated at the start of the James Bond film From Russia With Love?
I've actually seen "Fresh."
How about the Red Dwarf episode Queeg? Or the Blakes 7 episode Gambit? I wonder how those stack up.
10:05 how did he check the other guy without getting out of check first (and he didn't capture the peice delivering check)
haha nice to see my suggestion for the Thing included! one of the best horror movies ever made.
@6:30.... never play f6!
There was a tv show called endgame. Amazing show about a world champion becoming a detective. Shame it only got one season. You should look at this show. I warn you though it has a lot of chess scenes so I wouldn’t expect a commentary on all of them lol. It all seems to be legit in terms of chess.
Thanks for the video, I got a laugh at the last part of the video.
The Mentalist s02e21 has a sort of blindfold/correspondence game going on for an entire episode. Wouldn't mind seeing that pieced together here. Also, if you want the cringy stuff there is another episode where the protagonist, after a passing glance at a game, says some nonsense like "your spanish attack is far too weak for his Sicilian defense"
I would watch a 2-hour movie of Danny evaluating chess scenes.
You should look at the Mr robot chess scene
The character plays metaphorical against himself and keeps getting stalemate
In russia, probably a lot of people, even amateur chess players know this Rh3 at the end of Luzhin's defence. why? because they still have a culture where a lot of people actually read in public transport instead of staring at their cellphone. I'm slightly surprised that Danny, as a respected IM, didn't know about the combination from the game Dr. Turati vs Luzhin if he read the book. It's always intriguing for us chess players to find some real chess gem in books or movies!
Still missing the best one: La diagonale du fou!!!!
I know you already looked at X-Men
But if you could look at the scene where Professor X and Magneto play chess and get angry, stand up face to face and stop moving the pieces physically but certainly continue the match verbally saying moves
I'm not sure but I think it's from one of the first two original X-Men movies
Don't forget the 1942 movie with Spencer Tracy, " Keeper of the Flame"
You gotta do The Wire!
Do pawn sacrifice next
“Sit at the board and play with yourself” -Magnus Carlsen
I believe GM Jon Speelman was a consultant on The Luzhin Defense and came up with that ...Rh3/Bf2# position.