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I thought the intellectual chess game between Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling was pure joy.
There is one beautiful scene where Heston plays chess against a bust of Caesar and you really wonder if he is aware of the fact that he is playing both sides.
A chess grandmaster (Emmett Clayton) becomes increasingly uncomfortable and anxious on the run-up to a chess match with a Soviet player (Tomlin Dudek) who has come out of retirement especially to play him.
Columbo's Most Dangerous Match is about chess.
The star is Manchurian Candidate's Lawrence Harvey who plays a deaf chess champion.
He is terrified of losing and will do anything to maintain his status as world chess champion.
His competitor is a Russian chess champion who unlike Lawrence Harvey's character is well-regarded and loved instead.
Columbo always knows how to work a prime suspect and does it by being fascinated in their work particularly chess.
One of Columbo's trademarks is that he gets interested in the character's passion and in this one, it's chess.
The film itself has an interesting core idea, but I frankly thought it would be more about the ramifications of the painting's ancient mystery (ala 'Da Vinci Code') than an excuse to pile up present-day murders via a chess game associated with the painting.
But the chess game routine is quite old hat, 1994 or otherwise.
How much of the average American population would be entertained by watching two dull, lifeless middle-aged men play a chess game for 2 hours and 18 minutes?
I personally love to play chess, but if you were to force me to sit and watch people do it, I'd feel like committing suicide after the first thirty minutes.
An actor and his best friend a scriptwriter regularly meet for chess until a girl appears.
Harvey soars as a self-centered chess master whose ego won't let him be defeated by his arch-rival, Krushen as a Russian champion.
We are entreated to them in a chess match (examine and enjoy how Karloff concentrates and takes the game so seriously), and a final wrestling match that ends up in a torture scene that only Edgar Allan Poe can imagine.
Being a chess player myself, I really enjoyed this movie, probably more so than the average person.
One of the funniest moments in the movie is when the grandmaster, who had murdered his Russian rival, is confronted (again) by Columbo during a chess simul (an event where a strong player plays matches against several players at once).
Although not even a mediocre player would fall into this trap - much less a grandmaster, even when being annoyed - it really is a fitting position for the movie, for undoubtedly, any chess player who commits murder for fear of losing a chess match is a fool indeed!
This movie has black magic, a man skinned alive, treachery, phobia, and a chess game with lives at stake.
Laurence Harvey stars as a win at all costs chess champion in "The Most Dangerous Match," one of the original Columbo episodes.
Geraldine Page and Ruth Gordon as Aunt Claire and Aunt Alice respectfully, had a chess match for most of the film that was simply brilliant.
Twenty years have passed since the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, and we all know computers have improved since then.
Go is played on a far larger board (19 by 19 squares, compared to 8x8 for chess) and has more possible moves than there are atoms in the universe, so raw computing power was unlikely to beat a human with a strong intuitive sense of the best moves.
Power in a global information age is distributed among countries in a pattern that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game.
For his part, Qaddafi has increasingly sought to demonstrate that the intervention is going nowhere, even brazenly appearing to engage in a chess match with the Russian head of FIDE, the world chess association.
Getting into a philosophical argument with him was like playing chess with a grandmaster: he had already thought of every response I could make to his arguments, considered several possible replies, and knew the objections to each reply as well as the best counters to those objections.
The Internet entrepreneur Peter Thiel and the legendary chess champion Garry Kasparov have suggested that the malaise runs even deeper, as has the economist Robert Gordon.
Power always depends on context, and in today’s world, it is distributed in a pattern that resembles a complex three-dimensional chess game.
Admittedly, my perspective is heavily colored by events in the world of chess, a game I once played at a professional level and still follow from a distance.
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