Watched an old 1968 movie with Steve McQueen called The Thomas Crown Affair. Had a very interesting and provocative chess game scene in it. I saw the opening moves as legit but wondered if the game was valid thruout even though they omitted moves from the movie.
Wonder what other movies had chess scenes in them. I think a Harry Potter movie had one with life size pieces.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Movie : TCA
Watched an old 1968 movie with Steve McQueen called The Thomas Crown Affair. Had a very interesting and provocative chess game scene in it. I saw the opening moves as legit but wondered if the game was valid thruout even though they omitted moves from the movie.
Wonder what other movies had chess scenes in them. I think a Harry Potter movie had one with life size pieces.
Wonder what other movies had chess scenes in them. I think a Harry Potter movie had one with life size pieces.
Monday, February 20, 2012
60 minutes - Carlson
60 minutes did a segment on Magnus Carlson "the Mozart of chess". It was superficial for a veteran chess player but good story on Magnus. It showed his early years and his play at 13 against Garry Kasparov. He played 10 people at once without seeing the boards. Very good to see a piece on mainstream newsshow.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Winter 2011/2012
Have not been active in playing chess these months. I do monitor the international scene thru posts from Susan Polgar. Need to at least play against the computer once in awhile. I need a new motivation.
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