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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 16:15:14 +0000
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We've looked closely at many aspects of movies before, but this is the
first time we've considered those chess scenes...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------
CHESS CLICHES IN MOVIES
GOOD Chess players are always portrayed as upper class. (Go to any
tournament and see how many rich guys there are there. NONE! They're too
busy chasing women and driving fast cars to play chess.)
Chess players in movies are always all around brilliant and charming
people. (With very few exceptions, REAL chess players are introverted
and so involved with chess they have little time to WASTE pursuing
anything as trivial as LOVE, A PROFESSION, or SOCIAL GRACES. Exception:
Computers! Most Chess players are, or will become, Computer nerds).
Great Chess players are always honored to play on some rich guy's fancy
Philipino Art Set. (In reality, better players are almost always adamant
about playing on a plain, unadorned wood or plastic "Staunton" set. No
red or blue pieces, no ceramic or metal, no elephants for rooks.)
The board is usually set up wrong, with the black square at the players
lower right, or with one or both of the King/Queen set up backwards.
(WHITE SQUARE GOES ON THE PLAYERS RIGHT. QUEENS on their own color:
white QUEEN on white, black QUEEN on black.)
Supposedly brilliant players usually miss one move checkmates in
critical games. This is akin to a professional race car driver backing
his station wagon into the garage door.
On the other hand, good players are often portrayed as seeing 15 or 20
moves ahead in detail from a middle game, when there are still many
pieces on the board. (One could more easily predict the next president
and all 535 congressmen correctly before the election. In the End Game,
when the number of pieces is limited, looking ahead often becomes a
question of counting moves, who can get to the critical square first, or
of very limited numbers of moves, and is more feasible.)
Beginners usually beat experienced players, as a mechanism for showing
the neophyte's native brilliance. (This is about as common as a tall,
athletic man who's never seen a basketball beating an NBA player in one-
on-one. It could happen, if the pro had a really bad day, but who would
you bet on?)
Players who are really behind (have lost more pieces) come up with
brilliant ways to win anyway. (If they're so good, how did they get
behind in the first place?)
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