Long Live the Queen. The movie was written/directed by Max Euwe's granddaughter. Everything just works, even the responses of all the different players/audience members make sense in the context of what's happening on the board and their skill level.
@@sensorcato There are probably seven or eight films of his you could mention as his best, and I wouldn't be able to argue against you. In my opinion Wild Strawberries is his best.
The Seventh Seal is a classic of Existentialist literature. The knight proposes various ploys in the real life scenes in an effort to stave off Death. In one scene, he proposes an alliance with the Bishop (also played by Ingmar Bergman). Note the chess analogy, however, the point is that even the church does not prevent human death per se. Through the entire movie, characters are dying from the black plague. Death and the Knight have several other scenes of playing chess, but the positions are not clarified. In the end, all of the characters arrive at the knights castle, where death appears and takes them all. One should note the (philosophical) position taken by the Knight's squire, that death is inevitable and can only be met with courage, as befits a knight. The philosophical fallacy of the theme is best countered by Tolstoy, in My Confession, regarding the algebraic equations that have no solution because they do not properly consider the infinite factors.
The chess scenes from the TV show 'Bones' in which Lance Sweets plays against Carl Magnuson (Magnus carlsen switched. lol) would no doubt get a thumb up. the dialogue is well written too... "you had a chance to win with a queen sacrifice." murderer: "I didn't see it." "I don't believe that for a second." And later it turns out he was protecting his own mother. brilliant episode.
There are some scenes in Always Sunny in Philadelphia (episode "Flowers for Charlie") and Brooklyn 99 ( episode 4 Movements") that might be worth a look
Danny, do watch The Seventh Seal, it's a classic and a great film. The actual chess in it is mediocre at best, though the crew actually played it during the shooting. Also, if you ever do any more of those, two anime come to mind: the chess match in No Game No Life, and an episode of Sailor Moon that features a position that's actually from one of Fischer's most famous games.
There's a scene from Malcolm in The Middle that's pretty intriguing as well. After the game, Malcolm yells something about an exposed queen bishop in the Nimzowitsch defense
The sci fi time travel movie "time after time" also got the chess board turned around during the first part of the movie, I remember seeing it, how it erked me for nearly the rest of the movie, that is until HG Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) pulled the key out of his time machine.
The Luzhin Defense is the clear winner here. Really great mating combo! Recommendation: Amazon original series Hunters has several chess scenes in the first season, one of which involves a horribly wrong explanation of the Queen's Gambit.
Except that if White had played Kf2 instead of Kg4 (which he surely would have if he had had a whole night to analyze the position), the fiance might not have been able to win the game...
You should checkout the climatic chess battle between Prof James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in the movie "Sherlock Holmes - Game of shadows" The game was in fact taken from 1966 game between Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian. (Moriarty playing Larsen's side and Holmes playing Petrosian's) Sherlock's queen sac which Petrosian really tried was accepted by Moriarty in the game and Moriarty went on to lose the game in few moves. But in real Larsen rejected the sac and in fact went on to win the game.
To be fair, Kramnik missed a mate in 1 vs some computer (I forget the exact game), and I've seen Carlsen miss a mate in 1 when playing blitz. The funny thing about Carlsen was that he moved and said, "I don't think my opponent has anything here." Ha, we are all human after all.
How did you miss the film Pawn Sacrifice? And the famous Boris Spassky king's gambit game recreated at the start of the James Bond film From Russia With Love?
In russia, probably a lot of people, even amateur chess players know this Rh3 at the end of Luzhin's defence. why? because they still have a culture where a lot of people actually read in public transport instead of staring at their cellphone. I'm slightly surprised that Danny, as a respected IM, didn't know about the combination from the game Dr. Turati vs Luzhin if he read the book. It's always intriguing for us chess players to find some real chess gem in books or movies!
I would like some insight on the Chess-scene(s) in "Lucky Number Slevin" - they used very artistic pieces, so its quite hard to tell, which piece is which. I'd figured its just there for plot convenience.
11:07 "Bishop to knight 4, my move knight to rook 3", is that legit annotation? Maybe some historical style to announce files by their pieces? How to differentiate king and queen side?
It's descriptive notation. It fell out of use in like the 80s or 90s. Of you need to know if it is the queenside or kingside, you say "bishop to king's knight 4."
It's called descriptive notation. To be complete you would say "Bishop to King's Knight 4" but if a bishop can only move to knight 4 on the kingside you can leave the "king's" part out.
Why so much hate on anime?! --- Having said that, the board and setup was pretty bad. xD Should have something from Attack on Titan, High School DxD, or Code Geass.
I hate when people just say 'anime' like it's a monolith. It's like saying you didn't sign up for 'movies'. Apparently a lot of people seem to think that all anime is about weird pointy hair and girly looking dudes dressed up in some weird 'high-fashion' outfits which only weebs like to watch. I know some people who were like that (including my own wife) and then I managed to persuade some of them to try watching Attack on Titan. Let's say that their perception has changed a bit since then.
nexxogen yup. Danny criticized the kingdom hearts scene for not being actual chess but was fine with Big Bang theory when they were doing their stupid clusterfuck of a setup. As soon as there were characters anime styled he instantly didn’t like it which is bit disappointing imo.
@@omegacroc2928 To be honest, I also don't like that type of anime and I don't play those games. But that reaction of his was just so over the top. It's like someone asked him to eat a cockroach or something, like he felt a bit disturbed and awkward for some reason.
Yeah he didn’t go about in a very open minded manner imo, and Kindom Hearts isn’t even an anime just has some anime style characters. Hell, it has GOOFY AND MICKEY MOUSE.
@@benjaminblack91 it's been awhile since I've seen it, but from what I remember, it's decent chess at parts, and only downright appalling during the end of the game with Schizel. I could be misremembering though
I think the chess scene from Criminal Minds should be a fail actually. Unless I'm mistaken, he plays a move as black, spins the board around, dialogue back and forth and then the other character sits down and moves as black! So since black moves twice in a row, it gets a fail from me!
5:55 giving a passing grade to a chess game where the black moves 2 consecutive times, first 4:21 second 5:19 10:30 giving a passing grade to a chess game where a check was either wrong called or non avoided, check called at 10:04, responded at 10:10 with a rook move and calling check without capturing nor blocking (so either the black checking piece was still treating the king or there was never a check)
@random guy "the guy who made the move at 5:19 was not present, when the last move was made" that is true, but he could ask who's turn is to play, I am just pointing out the master gave a passing grade when there was a clear mistake. With the example at 10:04 even if the master pointed out that there was a mistake (magically skipping moves is a mistake regardless of how good is the conversation), he is still giving a passing grade to a mistaken scene. Also even if the game is accurate and you just film some moves and skip others, the fact that they are calling "check" one move after the last called "check" while making it seems consecutive moves is the part that is odd and quickly points out the mistake. I mean you can actually respond a check with another check that could lead to a mate in 6, but they could also search for a game in the databases where that happen and have a realistic game.
@@fcolecumberri Passing grade doesn't mean perfect, moron. He weighed these factors and decided it passed. If you didn't know this guy's name and rank before he said anything, you're pretty obviously not part of the chess community.
Rh3 is brilliant! But I am sure I saw that before. They took a real game or a real combination for this scene. EDIT: 11:35 Guy is so pissed at the computer declaring checkmate when it made the wrong move that he destroys it before it malfunctions in worse ways. He learnt his lesson from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
There's a scene in the Amazon Prime show 'Hunters' starring Al Pacino in which Pacino is meant to be pretty good at chess and plays against the young upstart protagonist. Pacino plays as white. The game, if I remember correctly: 1. g4 e5 2. f3 Qh4# Pacino behaves as if he's stunned by the protagonist's brilliance. Tbf I think the chess is all technically accurate, but like... man.
Watch Part 1 of our chess movie/tv scene breakdown here!
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The Mentalist
Why not get a grand master to do it
part 3 would feature Naka in billions 5x2
Cheesbase did an article on all the games shown here, they're all real games
Long Live the Queen. The movie was written/directed by Max Euwe's granddaughter. Everything just works, even the responses of all the different players/audience members make sense in the context of what's happening on the board and their skill level.
If you guys end up doing a 3rd one, you should look at the Sherlock Holmes movies!
And quantum chess between Dr. Hawking vs Paul Rodd
Yesss and pawn sacrifice
I was just about to say that only
Sherlock Holmes faces death starring Basil Rathbone, chess scene.
"YODHA", "SPANISH MASALA"
what ive learned: if u r behind: just say (after making a move) "mate in 6, wanna suffer thru it?"
it might just work 😇
You have to watch The Seventh Seal. It’s truly one of the masterpieces of cinema history. We’re talking Ingmar Bergman here after all.
Persona is better.
@@sensorcato There are probably seven or eight films of his you could mention as his best, and I wouldn't be able to argue against you. In my opinion Wild Strawberries is his best.
I think the chess is a bit off, but it's a great film!
@@HawkOfGP maybe a bit off but the bit where death tricks the knight into revealing his strategy is hilarious
and its parody in Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure is amusing.
3:07 After Rh3 is played, the clock isn't pressed!
I watch your streams all the time nice to see you here
you can hear it get pressed in the background a bit after
The Seventh Seal is a classic of Existentialist literature. The knight proposes various ploys in the real life scenes in an effort to stave off Death. In one scene, he proposes an alliance with the Bishop (also played by Ingmar Bergman). Note the chess analogy, however, the point is that even the church does not prevent human death per se. Through the entire movie, characters are dying from the black plague.
Death and the Knight have several other scenes of playing chess, but the positions are not clarified.
In the end, all of the characters arrive at the knights castle, where death appears and takes them all.
One should note the (philosophical) position taken by the Knight's squire, that death is inevitable and can only be met with courage, as befits a knight.
The philosophical fallacy of the theme is best countered by Tolstoy, in My Confession, regarding the algebraic equations that have no solution because they do not properly consider the infinite factors.
Seventh Seal is not a single scene about chess. The game goes on throughout the whole movie. You'd have to watch to the end.
So that scene is the prologue..?
@@xooperz yes
11:33 Danny got biased by the alcohol machine death. It was actually a thumb down 😅
yeah the board changed dramatically between shots
Pouring alcohol into machine is a good move. Mate in 1 vs AlphaZero.
Why do i keep hearing "rook to knight 6" please tell me hahaha
The chess scenes and dialogue in Season 2 of Mr.Robot is really well executed. You guys should review it.
Mid
The chess scenes from the TV show 'Bones' in which Lance Sweets plays against Carl Magnuson (Magnus carlsen switched. lol) would no doubt get a thumb up. the dialogue is well written too... "you had a chance to win with a queen sacrifice."
murderer: "I didn't see it."
"I don't believe that for a second."
And later it turns out he was protecting his own mother. brilliant episode.
There are some scenes in Always Sunny in Philadelphia (episode "Flowers for Charlie") and Brooklyn 99 ( episode 4 Movements") that might be worth a look
Chess scene from episode 1 of code geass, please do ittt
Columbo - "The Most Dangerous Match". Grandmaster falls to fools mate during a simultaneous. Inside joke, very easy to miss.
Danny, do watch The Seventh Seal, it's a classic and a great film. The actual chess in it is mediocre at best, though the crew actually played it during the shooting.
Also, if you ever do any more of those, two anime come to mind: the chess match in No Game No Life, and an episode of Sailor Moon that features a position that's actually from one of Fischer's most famous games.
Ngnl is gonna get Danny crawling lmao
You could also have a look at some chess scenes from "Outlander"
particularly, season 2, episode 4
but there's one in season 4, episode 6 as well
There's a scene from Malcolm in The Middle that's pretty intriguing as well. After the game, Malcolm yells something about an exposed queen bishop in the Nimzowitsch defense
The last one was from Kingdom Hearts, a game series on the Playstation.
Pinchcliffe Grand Prix has a classic chess scene
Loved seeing the KH3 scene! And don't feel bad, it isn't a real chess set. The pieces are representing characters roles in the storyline
Analyse the next chess scenes from seventh seal
the Luzhin defense: Danny you should watch whole movie
With these two videos, I got me a nice list of movies to watch or rewatch!
Fresh is a fantastic film. One of my faves
The seventh seal is one of the greatest movies ever made..
And there are probbably two more chess scenes..
You guys should also do the original Starsky and Hutch chess scene
The sci fi time travel movie "time after time" also got the chess board turned around during the first part of the movie, I remember seeing it, how it erked me for nearly the rest of the movie, that is until HG Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) pulled the key out of his time machine.
The movie Fresh, I feel like I have similar body movement as the boy, while taking pieces and hitting the clock
The Luzhin Defense is the clear winner here. Really great mating combo!
Recommendation: Amazon original series Hunters has several chess scenes in the first season, one of which involves a horribly wrong explanation of the Queen's Gambit.
Except that if White had played Kf2 instead of Kg4 (which he surely would have if he had had a whole night to analyze the position), the fiance might not have been able to win the game...
You should checkout the climatic chess battle between Prof James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in the movie "Sherlock Holmes - Game of shadows"
The game was in fact taken from 1966 game between Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian.
(Moriarty playing Larsen's side and Holmes playing Petrosian's)
Sherlock's queen sac which Petrosian really tried was accepted by Moriarty in the game and Moriarty went on to lose the game in few moves.
But in real Larsen rejected the sac and in fact went on to win the game.
Pause 10:58 white queen missing .. next scene .. white queen is there ..
They might of mistakingly filmed this backwards .
Haven't looked yet
Come on lads give me some Futurama.
SmartyPantsChess Yes! There’s some good ones. Dr. Zoidberg trying to decide on a piece was pretty good :)
I love these chess in movies series.i thought the movie "fresh" was really good.
To be fair, Kramnik missed a mate in 1 vs some computer (I forget the exact game), and I've seen Carlsen miss a mate in 1 when playing blitz. The funny thing about Carlsen was that he moved and said, "I don't think my opponent has anything here." Ha, we are all human after all.
The Wire has a pretty cool chess scene.
How did you miss the film Pawn Sacrifice? And the famous Boris Spassky king's gambit game recreated at the start of the James Bond film From Russia With Love?
4:30. Bent over laughing and I drooled!
Don't forget the 1942 movie with Spencer Tracy, " Keeper of the Flame"
You should look at the Mr robot chess scene
The character plays metaphorical against himself and keeps getting stalemate
I don't know which was better. Samuel L Jackson playing chess in Fresh or in Searching for Bobby Fischer...
I've actually seen "Fresh."
Do pawn sacrifice next
In russia, probably a lot of people, even amateur chess players know this Rh3 at the end of Luzhin's defence. why? because they still have a culture where a lot of people actually read in public transport instead of staring at their cellphone. I'm slightly surprised that Danny, as a respected IM, didn't know about the combination from the game Dr. Turati vs Luzhin if he read the book. It's always intriguing for us chess players to find some real chess gem in books or movies!
8:03 "I'm not having my time wasted by some half-ass-fish-cake opponent today".
Roasted!!! XD
You gotta do The Wire!
Thanks for the video, I got a laugh at the last part of the video.
Please do the chess scene from the opening of From Russia with Love, the second James Bond film
Nice video but you need a better Greenscreen or just one a grey background
I would like some insight on the Chess-scene(s) in "Lucky Number Slevin" - they used very artistic pieces, so its quite hard to tell, which piece is which. I'd figured its just there for plot convenience.
Still no clip from Naked Gun..
Wished you reacted to the movie "Pawn Sacrifice" i've always wondered if the movie was overdramatized or accurate.
You crack me up man 😂
Didnt Bobby fisher play against himself?
Blade runner also has a chess game which seems legit, idk for sure
Nice video
Do the Pixar short "Geri's Game", available on Disney+.
I wanna watch Fresh now
Deep Space Nine - Playing God
Would have been better if the movies showed the board from overhead. 😕
Very good series.
No pawn sacrifice 😓
11:07 "Bishop to knight 4, my move knight to rook 3", is that legit annotation? Maybe some historical style to announce files by their pieces? How to differentiate king and queen side?
It's descriptive notation. It fell out of use in like the 80s or 90s. Of you need to know if it is the queenside or kingside, you say "bishop to king's knight 4."
It's called descriptive notation. To be complete you would say "Bishop to King's Knight 4" but if a bishop can only move to knight 4 on the kingside you can leave the "king's" part out.
Thanks, learned something again. 👍♟🙂
0:00 Casual offensive gesture. :(
"When a grandmaster is surprised by mate in 1..it doesn't happen, that's not a thing"
mark marky that’s gonna comeback and bite him one day
In Numb3rs: Is he saying Ryan Lopez..?
Ruy Lopez
The mentalist
Do one from anime scenes; Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass, Monster all these anime have chess scenes
Hahah, I'm glad I'm not the only one that find those prime-time dramas to be completely cheeseball and vapid.
Death always win...
how about Friday the 13 prt 2 ? he's like check! and she replies no, check mate white man! I wonder if it's possible to answer a check with mate?
Why so much hate on anime?!
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Having said that, the board and setup was pretty bad. xD Should have something from Attack on Titan, High School DxD, or Code Geass.
Matthew Kolcz well maybe not highschool dxd haha but code geass would be cool
@@omegacroc2928 haha ya, maybe you're right. Danny's reaction though would be priceless
Matthew Kolcz his reaction to glorious anime titties would be one to behold for sure
Blade Runner?
I hate when people just say 'anime' like it's a monolith. It's like saying you didn't sign up for 'movies'. Apparently a lot of people seem to think that all anime is about weird pointy hair and girly looking dudes dressed up in some weird 'high-fashion' outfits which only weebs like to watch. I know some people who were like that (including my own wife) and then I managed to persuade some of them to try watching Attack on Titan. Let's say that their perception has changed a bit since then.
nexxogen yup. Danny criticized the kingdom hearts scene for not being actual chess but was fine with Big Bang theory when they were doing their stupid clusterfuck of a setup. As soon as there were characters anime styled he instantly didn’t like it which is bit disappointing imo.
@@omegacroc2928 To be honest, I also don't like that type of anime and I don't play those games. But that reaction of his was just so over the top. It's like someone asked him to eat a cockroach or something, like he felt a bit disturbed and awkward for some reason.
Sherlock Holmes movie
chess master... not grand but international... one day Danny... one day. you have a few more years. just get it before finegold and you're good..
Daniel the second video is not a pass, it's white to move!
Pro tip: 0.75x
the seventh seal actually continues the game pretty poorly
ur cute
Please cover the chess scene from House MD where he plays against a kid. It involves a beautiful mating sacrifice!
Brandon Neifert- the game never ends, house says he wouldn’t play the move the kid thought he would that House would not lose . It’s left open ended.
6:28 NEVER PLAY F6!
Thank you Ben Finegold.
f6, Does Bxc6 xc6 Nxe5 works?
Raaar!
Very suspicious
afbdreds kd7 and you're down a piece
6:29 violates Finegold's Rule!
I know right? Terrible.
The truth hurts
The answer is fries
+ tax
Hoping for Code Geass in part 3, but worried since Danny apparently doesn't vibe with anime
I think most parts have chess
Yeah he didn’t go about in a very open minded manner imo, and Kindom Hearts isn’t even an anime just has some anime style characters. Hell, it has GOOFY AND MICKEY MOUSE.
Code Geass has some of the worst chess ever. None of the positions make any sense.
Benjamin Black is that so? I haven’t seen it but if that’s the case then them having code geass would leave a bad taste in his mouth for sure lol.
@@benjaminblack91 it's been awhile since I've seen it, but from what I remember, it's decent chess at parts, and only downright appalling during the end of the game with Schizel. I could be misremembering though
I think the chess scene from Criminal Minds should be a fail actually.
Unless I'm mistaken, he plays a move as black, spins the board around, dialogue back and forth and then the other character sits down and moves as black! So since black moves twice in a row, it gets a fail from me!
Good catch 👍
There is an episode of LEXX where the entire 40 mins is a chess game with talking heads and a very nice checkmate- season 4 episode 18
5:55 giving a passing grade to a chess game where the black moves 2 consecutive times, first 4:21 second 5:19
10:30 giving a passing grade to a chess game where a check was either wrong called or non avoided, check called at 10:04, responded at 10:10 with a rook move and calling check without capturing nor blocking (so either the black checking piece was still treating the king or there was never a check)
@random guy "the guy who made the move at 5:19 was not present, when the last move was made" that is true, but he could ask who's turn is to play, I am just pointing out the master gave a passing grade when there was a clear mistake.
With the example at 10:04 even if the master pointed out that there was a mistake (magically skipping moves is a mistake regardless of how good is the conversation), he is still giving a passing grade to a mistaken scene. Also even if the game is accurate and you just film some moves and skip others, the fact that they are calling "check" one move after the last called "check" while making it seems consecutive moves is the part that is odd and quickly points out the mistake. I mean you can actually respond a check with another check that could lead to a mate in 6, but they could also search for a game in the databases where that happen and have a realistic game.
@@fcolecumberri Passing grade doesn't mean perfect, moron. He weighed these factors and decided it passed. If you didn't know this guy's name and rank before he said anything, you're pretty obviously not part of the chess community.
sherlock holmes: game of shadows has a pretty good/relevant game at the end
"What is going on?" That's why I don't play Kingdom hearts lol. Also I suggested the thing clip give me likes :)
Fresh is a great film.
Recommended!
Thanks for your videos!
Rh3 is brilliant! But I am sure I saw that before. They took a real game or a real combination for this scene.
EDIT: 11:35 Guy is so pissed at the computer declaring checkmate when it made the wrong move that he destroys it before it malfunctions in worse ways. He learnt his lesson from "2001: A Space Odyssey".
There's a scene in the Amazon Prime show 'Hunters' starring Al Pacino in which Pacino is meant to be pretty good at chess and plays against the young upstart protagonist.
Pacino plays as white. The game, if I remember correctly:
1. g4 e5
2. f3 Qh4#
Pacino behaves as if he's stunned by the protagonist's brilliance.
Tbf I think the chess is all technically accurate, but like... man.
lol, getting checkmated by a Fool's Mate? Doesn't sound like Pacino is that good at chess to me.
Please react to Code Geass chess scenes!!
You missed the chess scene from the Wire.
Fresh is one of my favorite movies.
YOO guys no mr robot pls do it in part 3
Fresh, that's what I like.
Morgan Freeman as “The Boss” in Lucky Number Sleven. Playing on a rare and expensive chess set.
Danny was composed and professional for 1.9 episodes, then kingdom hearts happened and real Danny broke through 😂
@6:30.... never play f6!
Hi Danny, Kingdom Hearts III is a video game not an anime
Cool interpretations and great video though!
Opening scene from “From Russia with Love”.