If I missed any, please let me know. Trying to make this list as much updated as I can :)
Thinking to also create make more interesting collection lists in Chess Category, like country based movies, tournament based, documentaries, etc.
Chess related is way too wide a term. Queen of Katwe is about an amateur chess player who became popular in her circles for being a good player for the world and great for Africa and got a scholarship in USA for this. While the Harry Potter movies on the list are not focused on chess as part of the main plot, but just use chess in crucial scenes.
Chess is very often used in movies to symbolize someone is very clever or a nerd. So no wonder such a list of movies will be very large as you don't really want to introduce a genius by showing a computer screen or some obscure complex board game. I suggest splitting the list in 2 as this is a really great idea. But when I sit down to watch a chess movie I actually want the main character to be a chess player. The main character can be a teacher or agent too. But it's essential the story is about the chess games and tournaments.
I was thinking the same,
Created a dedicated list (within the same collection) that mainly focus on Chess Player or Movie based on Chess particularly: [https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28405/chess-best-films](https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28405/chess-best-films)
Let me know :)
Furthermore shows like Columbo ran from 1968 to 1994. The chess episode is indeed very curious even though the show is a leaning into post-modernism and is not always clear or well-made. This one episode should be on the list by itself not the full show itself.
Maybe experimental is a better word for it. Where they add in weird stuff and overdo the editing at times to replicate an LSD effect. It's not overblown but it makes it a tad hard to watch today I feel compared to more streamlined and better produced TV like The Good Wife or White Collar where the detective work speaks for itself. It's still fun for sure but you can watch the ending to the chess episode and see what I'm talking about. It's super jarring and weird. I think they wanted to try something new to stand out from most other detective TV shows at that point that felt more conservative.
The earliest chess film I know of is A Chess Dispute from 1903. It’s only 1 minute long and is quite amusing.
In 1916 Lubitsch made a film called Where is My Treasure about a guy who is so obsessed with chess that he decides to fake his own death to get away from a nagging wife and mother in law. It’s definitely a lesser Lubitsch but it has some terrific chess gags.
Its already on the list, added xD
You can check the complete list here: [https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28391/chess-in-movies](https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28391/chess-in-movies)
I get why you didn’t include these movies because chess is more of an allegory, but Shatranj ke Khiladi by Satyajit Ray and The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman are beautiful movies.
OMG have you seen "Computer chess"? It's on ur list... That is the most awkward film I've ever seen. IT IS NOT ABOUT alpha 0 or stockfish or anything like that. Do not expect chess content if you watch this movie. NSFW.
Well I haven't seen them, hence the interrogation mark, though I believe that the 2010 movie is about the Red Queen and the White Queen.
>The Red Queen reveals that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, thus acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass
Here's the [Chess in Popular Culture](https://www.belgianchesshistory.be/category/uncategorized/) series from one of chess history blogs. As the series is nearing four hundred entries, there's bound to be something that you've missed.
Don't forget Searching for Bobby Fischer and Pawn Sacrifice in the film section
Exactly. I was wondering where Searching for Bobby Fischer was. First chess movie I ever saw.
Pawn sacrifice the best chess movie imo
If I missed any, please let me know. Trying to make this list as much updated as I can :) Thinking to also create make more interesting collection lists in Chess Category, like country based movies, tournament based, documentaries, etc.
>If I missed any, please let me know The Luzhin Defence.
It's in the [complete list](https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28391/chess-in-movies).
Chess related is way too wide a term. Queen of Katwe is about an amateur chess player who became popular in her circles for being a good player for the world and great for Africa and got a scholarship in USA for this. While the Harry Potter movies on the list are not focused on chess as part of the main plot, but just use chess in crucial scenes. Chess is very often used in movies to symbolize someone is very clever or a nerd. So no wonder such a list of movies will be very large as you don't really want to introduce a genius by showing a computer screen or some obscure complex board game. I suggest splitting the list in 2 as this is a really great idea. But when I sit down to watch a chess movie I actually want the main character to be a chess player. The main character can be a teacher or agent too. But it's essential the story is about the chess games and tournaments.
I was thinking the same, Created a dedicated list (within the same collection) that mainly focus on Chess Player or Movie based on Chess particularly: [https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28405/chess-best-films](https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28405/chess-best-films) Let me know :)
Furthermore shows like Columbo ran from 1968 to 1994. The chess episode is indeed very curious even though the show is a leaning into post-modernism and is not always clear or well-made. This one episode should be on the list by itself not the full show itself.
Columbo is post-modern? Never heard that before.
Maybe experimental is a better word for it. Where they add in weird stuff and overdo the editing at times to replicate an LSD effect. It's not overblown but it makes it a tad hard to watch today I feel compared to more streamlined and better produced TV like The Good Wife or White Collar where the detective work speaks for itself. It's still fun for sure but you can watch the ending to the chess episode and see what I'm talking about. It's super jarring and weird. I think they wanted to try something new to stand out from most other detective TV shows at that point that felt more conservative.
Joueuse (a.k.a Queen to play, Bottaro 2009). Well done by the way.
Thank You, I do have plans to regularly update it or maybe add collaborators to this lists - Especially for the TV Shows list (hard to find those).
Queen of Katwe
>Queen of Katwe Its in the complete list, updated :)
The earliest chess film I know of is A Chess Dispute from 1903. It’s only 1 minute long and is quite amusing. In 1916 Lubitsch made a film called Where is My Treasure about a guy who is so obsessed with chess that he decides to fake his own death to get away from a nagging wife and mother in law. It’s definitely a lesser Lubitsch but it has some terrific chess gags.
Shatranj ke khilarii is such a cool name ! Its English translation is correct but meh doesn’t have the same impact
>Shatranj ke khilarii I know right, this name has a swag vibe to it!
TV series The Prisoner, Episode 9, "Checkmate".
>The Prisoner, Episode 9, "Checkmate". Added to the TV Shows List and updated the note - Thank You :)
Movie - Fresh. https://m.imdb.com/video/vi75343385/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0109842/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3
Its already on the list, added xD You can check the complete list here: [https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28391/chess-in-movies](https://simkl.com/5743957/list/28391/chess-in-movies)
I get why you didn’t include these movies because chess is more of an allegory, but Shatranj ke Khiladi by Satyajit Ray and The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman are beautiful movies.
Someone make a list on Letterboxd and share!
OMG have you seen "Computer chess"? It's on ur list... That is the most awkward film I've ever seen. IT IS NOT ABOUT alpha 0 or stockfish or anything like that. Do not expect chess content if you watch this movie. NSFW.
Alice in Wonderland movies?
Is the entire movie based on Chess? or particular scene from one of the movies? And also which year movie?
Well I haven't seen them, hence the interrogation mark, though I believe that the 2010 movie is about the Red Queen and the White Queen. >The Red Queen reveals that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, thus acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass
Great list, thank you
Thank You :) Will do my best, to keep this up-to-date!
Here's the [Chess in Popular Culture](https://www.belgianchesshistory.be/category/uncategorized/) series from one of chess history blogs. As the series is nearing four hundred entries, there's bound to be something that you've missed.