New York, années 80. Fred et Bonnie Waitzkin découvrent le talent exceptionnel de leur fils Josh pour les échecs. Ils le confient au professeur Pandolfini pour développer ses capacités. Stupéfait des aptitudes de l'enfant, il lui impose une discipline rigoureuse pour en faire un second Bobby Fischer, champion des Etats-Unis à 14 ans.
En 1958, Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, alors âgé de quatorze ans, stupéfia le monde des échecs en devenant le plus jeune Grand Maître de l’histoire, lançant ainsi une carrière qui allait faire de lui une légende. Pendant les quinze années qui suivirent, son incroyable ascension au sommet du jeu captiva le monde entier et permit aux échecs de connaître un essor international considérable. Puis, à l’apogée de sa réussite, Bobby Fischer prit tout le monde par surprise en décidant de disparaître des yeux du grand public.
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.
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.
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.
The film follows the rise of the chess player Maurice Ashley, the first black person to attain the title of Grandmaster.
Two brothers, raised by a chess master, must battle head to head in the world's most competitive chess tournament.