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.
Josh é um menino de sete anos que, de modo inato, revela um extraordinário talento para jogar xadrez, aprendendo o jogo simplesmente ao ver outros jogarem. O seu pai, um jornalista desportivo, procura incentivá-lo a jogar e a desenvolver o seu talento, apercebendo-se de que tem em mãos um talento em bruto. Mas Josh continua a ser uma criança, sentindo-se inseguro quanto à hipótese de perder, às expectativas criadas em torno de si pelo seu entusiástico pai, e quanto à vida que quer para si.
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.
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.
Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.
The film follows the rise of the chess player Maurice Ashley, the first black person to attain the title of Grandmaster.
