hunched over a side lit chessboard, both smoking, one puff's on a rather large
cigar, the other a thin cigarette, a small crowd of strange and beautiful people
watch on intently.The tension is unbearable, the game is at a critical position, Cigar-man looks up and plays (what he thinks is) the winning move, he then leans back in his chair and smiles smugly, awaiting Cigarette-man's resignation. Cigarette-man stares down through the haze, lifting his head slowly upwards looks straight into Cigar-man's eyes, picks up a piece and slams it down onto the board "CHECKMATE!" Cigar-man leans forward and looks at the board in disbelief, he slumps back in his chair and looks to the heavens, the game is over, the men applaud wishing they were as cool as Cigarette-man and the women go moist!
What a load of Shite ! Cigar-man missed a 'one-move' combo the Dummy!
I think most film makers have rarely, If ever played a game of chess. They have a romanticized view of the game and how it's perceived to be played. How often do you give a checkmate like that? (Without getting smacked in the mouth!)
One of the most famous game's in film history is in Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was himself an avid chess fan.
In the film the game was played by astronaut Frank Poole (white) against the spaceship's supercomputer HAL 9000 en route to Jupiter.
