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.

När en far upptäcker att hans sjuåriga son är en superbegåvning i snabbschack anlitar han en obeveklig schackmästare som tränare.

Dokumentär om schackspelaren Bobby Fischer som fortfarande anses vara tidernas största spelare av många. Filmen följer hans tumultartade karriär, från världsmästartiteln till ett liv i exil.

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.