Apparently neither of the two actors involved (Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen) knew how to play chess and an over-qualified GM was brought in to teach them! The game is mostly used to represent the rivalry between Professor Xavier and his “frenemy” Magneto, and this sequence from the first X-Men film is no exception. A few years ago I even created a YouTube video gathering these Chess Scenes in the X-Men Films. In the sci-fi X-Men series about mutants with superpowers, chess makes frequent appearances, sometimes at key moments. That the game played – based on Larsen-Petrosian, 1966 – develops into a form of blindfold chess is a plus, as this sort of feat is rarely displayed in movies. (He also made Revolver (2005), a crime thriller that references chess even more heavily, but it’s not as good.) The original scene goes for ten minutes, too long for our purposes and I had to edit out some non-chess related parts that’s why this segment may feel a little disjointed at times. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)Ī blitz game between Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty serves as the climax of this film directed by Guy Ritchie, a keen chess player. You can also jump to individual segments using the heading links provided below.ġ0. Because I wanted the selected scenes to be more-or-less self-contained and not mere snippets, some segments are longish (though none exceeds four minutes) and the whole compilation is 27 minutes in length. The result is now on YouTube: Top 10 Greatest Chess Scenes in Movies. So I decided to do just that – choosing the ten best film depictions of the game (in my view), ranking them, and collecting them in a HD-quality video. Surprisingly, however, no-one has attempted to put these chess sequences together in a single video. Many people have produced lists of the most famous of such scenes, clips of which are typically found on YouTube. For chess enthusiasts who are also fans of cinema, movie scenes that prominently feature the royal game hold a special appeal.
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