On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:34:15 GMT, (Sam Sloan)
wrote:

Searching for Bobby Fischer

I just replayed the movie "Searching for Booby Fischer" on video. Of
course, I had seen the movie before, but this time I saw a few things
I had not seen previously.

snip some interesting chess stuff

The point is that White has queened his pawn first but Black queens
with check on the long diagonal and wins White's queen. A cute and
unusual solution to an endgame study.

By the way, in real life the game ended in a draw.

Wow. I haven't seen that kind of passion devoted to a film since the
poker group did a Sklanskian deconstruction of every hand in Rounders.
Nice job.

Searching for Bobby Fisher is a favorite of mine also. I don't know
about the accuracy of the chess, but the final match sequence is
magnificently designed and edited. I didn't realize how involved I
was in the match, or the movie, until Laurence Fishburne points at the
monitor and shouts "There it is!" Cut to Josh slamming his opponent's
queen. Even though you expect it to happen, it's still the kind of
electrifying moment that even most sports movies never achieve.

Of course, my favorite line comes a few moments later when Josh tells
the other boy, "You've lost......you just don't know it yet." Kind of
sums up life for many of us g.