Author: Baldomero Garcia, Jr.
Date: 22:52:40 06/06/00
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On June 06, 2000 at 12:31:47, Pierre Bourget wrote:
„Mission
>Impossible has an episode called A Game of Chess in his second season.Here is a
>brief description:
>
>Episode #42 :A Game of Chess
>Nicholas Groat (Don Francks), an international chess master, plans to steal the
>gold from a hotel vault. The gold was originally intended for a pro-Western
>underground movement in an opressive country. Rollin poses as a chess master
>with the help of Barney's chess playing computer in order to gain the Groat's
>confidence. The IMF then helps Groat gain access to the vault before the IMF
>takes the gold from Groat at gunpoint.Aired 1/14/68.
There was a new Mission: Impossible series in the late 80's, I think. In this
new series, there was an episode that involved the world chess championship.
The match lasted 2 games only, I think. The use of the clock was really stupid
in the movie, though, because after the flag fell, the arbiter told one of the
players that he had to move. Since the world champ was trying to escape his
country, one of the mission: impossible characters had to use a rubber mask to
impersonate him while he was escaping. Meanwhile, the mission: impossible
character was receiving the moves via a ring (the ring received signals from the
actual world champ). At some point, the fake world champ is not able to get a
transmission for his next move. He doesn't know what to do, makes a move, and
it happens to be a brilliant move that wins the game.
For the most part, I think chess is grossly misrepresented in movies. They seem
to have this nerdy view of chessplayers with weird personalities. In "Knight
Moves", Christopher Lambert ("Highlander") plays the role of the world champ.
They copied some of the Fischer attitude for this character. The rest of the
characters were pretty weird too. One of them had some tin foil crown to get
good concentration or something to that effect.
In "Searching for Bobby Fischer" the best parts were the black and white scenes
from the beginning, where a young Fischer is seen. A lot of non-chess playing
people liked it, particularly parents for the story between father and son.
Other than that, I thought the chess parents were a little too stressed out
during the movie. I've seen chess parents at tournaments, and they seem well
balanced people.
There is a serious movie called "In the Open", but I have not seen it. The
person who directed it sells it for under $30, but I don't recall her email
address or website. The movie is about a group of friends who go to a chess
tournament.
Baldo.
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