Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 06:21:35 06/07/00
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On June 07, 2000 at 01:52:40, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote:
>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.
Thank you for your post especially for the Mission Impossible new episode in the
late 80's.I know there are a lot of movies with chess scene but in my post i was
refering exclusively to computer chess scene, which seems to be scarce.
Pierre
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