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Searching for Bobby Fischer

Index Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer, released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves, is a 1993 American drama film written and directed by Steven Zaillian. [1]

73 relations: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers, American Society of Cinematographers, Anjelina Belakovskaia, Asa Hoffmann, Austin Pendleton, Bare king, Ben Kingsley, Bobby Fischer, Bruce Pandolfini, Chess, Chess Life, Chess prodigy, Chess title, Chess.com, Chessgames.com, Chicago Sun-Times, Conrad Hall, Crown Publishing Group, Dan Hedaya, David Paymer, Drama (film and television), Draw (chess), Draw by agreement, Edward Winter (chess historian), Fast chess, Foil (literature), Fred Waitzkin, Grandmaster (chess), Hal Scardino, Hustling, Israel Zilber, James Berardinelli, James Horner, Janusz Kamiński, Jeff Sarwer, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Joel Benjamin, Joshua Waitzkin, Kamran Shirazi, Larry Evans (chess grandmaster), Latvian Chess Championship, Laura Linney, Laurence Fishburne, List of directorial debuts, Manhattan Chess Club, Max Pomeranc, Metaphor, Mikhail Tal, Misanthropy, ..., Morgan Pehme, New York City, Nigel Short, Pal Benko, Paramount Pictures, Robert Stephens, Roger Ebert, Roman Dzindzichashvili, Rotten Tomatoes, Schindler's List, Scholastic chess in the United States, Steven Zaillian, Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments, Tom Stoppard, United Kingdom, United States Chess Federation, Washington Square Park, Wayne Wahrman, White and Black in chess, William H. Macy, William Horberg, Zugzwang, 66th Academy Awards. Expand index (23 more) »

AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers

100 Years…100 Cheers: America's Most Inspiring Movies is a list of the most inspiring films as determined by the American Film Institute.

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American Society of Cinematographers

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), founded in 1919, is an educational, cultural, and professional organization.

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Anjelina Belakovskaia

Anjelina Belakovskaia (Анжелина Белаковская; Anzhelina Belakovskaya; born May 17, 1969) is a United States chess player who has achieved the FIDE Woman Grandmaster title.

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Asa Hoffmann

Asa Hoffmann (born February 25, 1943 in New York City) is a FIDE Master in chess, chess teacher and author from the United States of America.

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Austin Pendleton

Austin Campbell Pendleton (born March 27, 1940) is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.

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Bare king

In chess and chess variants, a bare king (or lone king) is a game position where one player has only the king remaining (i.e. all the player's other pieces have been).

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years.

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Bobby Fischer

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

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Bruce Pandolfini

Bruce Pandolfini (born September 17, 1947) is an American chess author, teacher, and coach.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Chess Life

The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids) are the official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess).

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Chess prodigy

Chess prodigies are children who can beat experienced adult players and even Masters at chess.

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Chess title

A chess title is a title created by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank.

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Chess.com

Chess.com is an Internet chess server, Internet forum and social networking website; it is also the name of the company that runs the site.

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Chessgames.com

Chessgames.com is an Internet chess community with over 224,000 members.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Conrad Hall

Conrad "Connie" Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia.

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Crown Publishing Group

The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Random House that publishes across several categories including fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography and memoir, cooking, health, business, and lifestyle.

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Dan Hedaya

Daniel G. Hedaya (born July 24, 1940) is an American actor.

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David Paymer

David Paymer (born August 30, 1954) is an American actor and television director.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Draw (chess)

In chess, a draw is the result of a game ending in a tie.

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Draw by agreement

In chess, a draw by (mutual) agreement is the outcome of a game due to the agreement of both players to a draw.

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Edward Winter (chess historian)

Edward Winter (born 1955) is an English chess journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author.

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Fast chess

Fast chess (also known as speed chess) is a variation of chess in which each side is given less time to make their moves than under normal tournament time controls.

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Foil (literature)

In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.

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Fred Waitzkin

Fred Waitzkin (born in 1943 in Massachusetts) is an American novelist and writer for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York, and Esquire.

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Grandmaster (chess)

The title Grandmaster (GM) is awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE.

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Hal Scardino

Hal Scardino (born Albert Henry Hugh Scardino; December 25, 1984) is an American actor and producer best known for having played the leading role in the movie The Indian in the Cupboard.

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Hustling

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.

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Israel Zilber

Israel Zilber (June 25, 1933, Riga, Latvia) is a chess player who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1958.

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James Berardinelli

James Berardinelli (born September 25, 1967) is an American film critic and fantasy novelist.

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James Horner

James Roy Horner (August 14, 1953 – June 22, 2015) was an American composer, conductor and orchestrator of film scores, writing over 100.

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Janusz Kamiński

Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, A.S.C. (born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and film director who started his career in the United States.

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Jeff Sarwer

Jeff Sarwer (born May 14, 1978) is a Canadian Finnish (dual citizenship) former child chess prodigy whose charismatic personality and chess talent made him a well-known media figure.

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Joan Allen

Joan Allen (born August 20, 1956) is an American actress who has worked in theatre, film, and television.

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Joe Mantegna

Joseph Anthony Mantegna (born November 13, 1947) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director.

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Joel Benjamin

Joel Benjamin (born March 11, 1964) is an American chess grandmaster.

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Joshua Waitzkin

Joshua Waitzkin (born December 4, 1976) is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author.

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Kamran Shirazi

Kamran Shirazi (کامران شیرازی; born 21 November 1952) is an International Master of chess.

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Larry Evans (chess grandmaster)

Larry Melvyn Evans (March 22, 1932 – November 15, 2010) was an American chess grandmaster, author, and journalist.

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Latvian Chess Championship

Professional level Latvian chess players have already appeared in the nineteenth century.

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Laura Linney

Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress and singer.

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Laurence Fishburne

Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961) is an American actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter, and film director.

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List of directorial debuts

This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order.

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Manhattan Chess Club

The Manhattan Chess Club in Manhattan was the second-oldest chess club in the United States (next to the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club in San Francisco) before it closed.

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Max Pomeranc

Max Pomeranc (pronounced Pomerantz; born March 21, 1984) is an American former child actor.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Mihails Tāls; Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal,; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet Latvian chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).

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Misanthropy

Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, distrust or contempt of the human species or human nature.

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Morgan Pehme

Morgan Pehme (born May 5, 1978 in New York City, USA) is an American journalist, filmmaker, and political commentator.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nigel Short

Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator.

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Pal Benko

Pal Benko (Benkő Pál; born July 14, 1928) is a Hungarian–American chess grandmaster, author, and composer of endgame studies and chess problems.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation (also known simply as Paramount) is an American film studio based in Hollywood, California, that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994.

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Robert Stephens

Sir Robert Graham Stephens (14 July 193112 November 1995) was a leading English actor in the early years of Britain's Royal National Theatre.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Roman Dzindzichashvili

Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili (რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; pronounced jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee; born May 5, 1944) is a chess Grandmaster (GM).

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

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Scholastic chess in the United States

Scholastic chess in the United States has progressively grown in recent years, evidenced by the increasing membership numbers of school-aged children in the United States Chess Federation.

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Steven Zaillian

Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian (born January 30, 1953) is an American screenwriter, director, film editor, and producer.

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Tie-breaking in Swiss-system tournaments

Tie-break systems are used in chess Swiss system tournaments to break ties between players who have the same total number of points after the last round.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States Chess Federation

The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in FIDE, the World Chess Federation.

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Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Wayne Wahrman

Wayne Wahrman, sometimes credited as Wayne P. Wahrman or Wayne R. Wahrman, is a film editor.

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White and Black in chess

In chess, the player who moves first is referred to as "White" and the player who moves second is referred to as "Black".

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William H. Macy

William Hall Macy Jr. (born March 13, 1950) is an American actor.

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William Horberg

William Horberg is an American film producer, chair of the Producers Guild of America on the East coast, and guest curator at.

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Zugzwang

Zugzwang (German for "compulsion to move") is a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move.

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66th Academy Awards

The 66th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1993 and took place on March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Bobby_Fischer

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