Chess in movies

Chess in movies include the following:

* The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) - Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, in their primes, play perhaps the most enthralling chess match in film history.[1]
* 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), considered by some to be the greatest movie ever, "astronaut Frank Poole plays a game against the ship's AI computer, HAL 9000."[2]
* From Russia with Love (1963) - the opening scene is a chess match, played on the entire floor of the room. The novel on which the book was based was a favorite of President JFK, and Frank Sinatra sang the theme song for the movie.
* Star Trek (1960s) - a television series in which a game of 3-dimensional chess is featured in one segment.
* The Queen's Gambit (2020) - the most popular series ever on Netflix, about a girl who became a chess prodigy.[3]
* Casablanca (1942) - considered one of the greatest movies of all time, it has a legendary chess scene and the actors frequently played chess during breaks in filming.[4]
* The Luzhin Defence (2001) - much of the movie, including its climax, is about chess.[5]
* The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) - the last silent movie by Alfred Hitchcock, it has a tantalizing, flirtatious chess game between a serial murderer and unsuspecting blonde woman model, beginning at 25 minutes into the 90-minute movie that went into the public domain on Jan. 1, 2023. "Be careful – I'll get you yet!" the ostensibly homosexual murderer "smilingly warns the landlady's blonde daughter as they play a flirtatious game of chess."[6]
* The Tempest (1610) - one of Shakespeare's final four plays, this includes a scene where two characters are playing a game of chess.

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## See also[edit]

* List of movies containing chess scenes

## References[edit]

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5bN73OnGmo
2. ↑ https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-in-the-movies
3. ↑ https://www.netflix.com/title/80234304
4. ↑ https://en.chessbase.com/post/casablanca-a-tribute-to-a-classic
5. ↑ https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-luzhin-defence.html
6. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jun/15/alfred-hitchcock-inventor-modern-horror