Stars: Rachel Wolf, Garry Kasparov, Ian Russell, Bobby Fischer, Susan Polgar
A Hungarian chess genius named Judith Polgar has been challenging the chess champion Garry Kasparov and his father's dominance for 15 years. By crossing gender barriers, she becomes the greatest female player in history and one of the best chess players in history...
Stars: Henry Kissinger, LeRoy Neiman, Malcolm Gladwell, Garry Kasparov, Anatoli Karpov
Robert James Bobby Fisher was born on March 9, 1943 in Chicago. He was a chess player and former world champion. Fischer's contemporary chess masters agree that he was the best chess player in history. Bobby Fischer became a chess grandmaster in 1958 at the age of fifteen, which was a record at that time. He also introduced Fisher Random Chess. He died on January 17, 2008 (age 64) in Reykjavík due to kidney disease. This documentary takes a look at the life of this chess champion...
Stars: Tony De Santis, David Paymer, Anthony Heald, Austin Pendleton, Laurence Fishburne
"Josh Witskin" is an ordinary baseball-loving teenager who one day challenges his father in chess and wins. He, who achieves excellence in chess tournaments in Washington Square, meets a man named "Vinny" who teaches him speed chess and...
