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Bobby Fischer Against The World

Bobby Fischer Against The World

Lovingly realised documentary on American chess master

(4 stars)21 Jun 2011

(12A) 93min Bobby Fischer was the greatest of all past chess masters, and certainly the best America has ever had. Like most geniuses, however, Fischer’s life was a bizarre trajectory of success, fame, delusion and ultimately (possibly) madness.

Chess: The Musical

Chess: The Musical

1 Sep 2010

A love triangle set amid the kings, queens and pawns of an international chess tournament in a cold war setting provides for much intrigue in the musical which gave us the hit song, ‘I Know Him So Well’. Directed by Craig Revel Horwood of Strictly Come…

Chess in Concert

Chess in Concert

Video footage of the Abba/Tim Rice musical

27 Aug 2009

Filmed performance of the blokes from Abba and Tim Rice’s musical about the sex lives of chess players. (It’s actually slightly more complicated than that, but who cares really?) Filmed at the Royal Albert Hall in 2008 with a full orchestra and chorus…

Be Near Me

Preview 2009 - Theatre

8 Jan 2009

Recession? What recession? If you believe the old adage that entertainment thrives in hard times (proven by the rise of the cinema in the austere 30s) surely theatre, which offers escape into alternative worlds, is the ideal diversion from dreary…

Chess

Chess

Moving Taiwanese tragedy

(4 stars)14 Aug 2008

Fortunately avoiding elaboration of the central metaphor - war as chess - this Taiwanese company, Dansmusicians presents a sumptuous and skilled performance. With superb dancers, a tragedy played for pathos not sentimentality and a ravishing soundtrack…

Michael Weinreb

The Kings of New York (Yellow Jersey)

(3 stars)12 Mar 2007

SPORT Chess attracts both child prodigies and general oddballs, both of which can be found in abundance in this well-constructed and intriguing book about American’s top high school chess team. The Edward R Murrow School in Brooklyn is an…

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