Фільм оповідає про дитячі роки відомого шахіста Джошуа Вайцкіна і про те, в яких умовах починалася його кар’єра. Учитель Джоша, Брюс Пандолфіні, бачить у ньому шахового генія, подібного на Боббі Фішера, і прагне прищепити йому агресивний стиль цього знаменитого майстра. Однак Джош, урешті-решт, знаходить свій власний шлях до перемоги.
The first documentary feature to explore the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer.
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
Dabaru is a melodramatic tale about a young chess player named Surya who rose from the alleys of North Kolkata to become a grand master.
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
Against the backdrop of Cold War, Glory to the Queen reveals stories of four legendary female chess players from Georgia who revolutionized women’s chess across the globe and became Soviet icons of female emancipation.
The film follows the rise of the chess player Maurice Ashley, the first black person to attain the title of Grandmaster.
Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.