The Boylston Chess Club library has recently acquired a DVD transfer of Chess Fever, a 1920s silent film starring Capablanca, and The Great Chess Movie, a documentary that interviews Fischer, Korchnoi, Karpov, etc.
While the Great Chess Movie is fine and interesting, the real gem is Chess Fever. This silent film is hilarious, and a "chess widow's" chance encounter with the World Champion Capablanca ends the film with a funny surprise.
Read more about chess fever here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015673/
and more about the Great Chess Movie here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Chess_Movie
2 comments:
I saw that movie a while back. Capa was as smooth *off* the chessboard as he was on the chessboard. Check it out!
Ah, and I look forward to borrowing The Great Chess Movie some time. I think I saw a funny clip from it once, in which Ljuboevic explains (complains) about his performance against recent birthday boy Karpov before and after he became World Champion.
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