Chess Master Breaks Down Chess Scenes from Movies and TV
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- International Chess Master Daniel Rensch breaks down chess scenes from movies and tv shows! Attention Hollywood, if you're going to put a chess scene in your project, this is what happens when a chess expert analyzes your work. Clips analyzed include 'Aladdin', 'The X-Men', 'Searching for Bobby Fischer', 'Harry Potter', 'The Thomas Crown Affair', and more.
This is only part one of our series! What other chess scenes from movies or tv shows would you want to see broken down? Leave us a comment below!
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"In chess, the pawns go first"
Reti, Nimzowitsch: Say what?
also there is alpha zero
*Sad black knights tango noises*
I always move the queen and rooks first yes i am very smart
I'm a n-3 player
@@Goumig Alekhine: am I a joke to you?
"In chess, the pawns go first"
Knight: Am i a joke to you?
Bye Bye Indian.
Justin Jian yes unless you are playing king’s indians.
You'd be at a disadvantage i think but not losing if you let your opponent take the center by pushing pawns.
@@johnell1745 the reti is literally one of the better openings
Réti is best
Didn't Harry Potter hire IM Silman to create the chess puzzle in order to believably sacrifice the knight for mate? (And then proceed to not only mangle his analysis on screen by making inappropriate cuts and fail to show it in a comprehensible way, but also fail to give him credit)
Correct- you can I believe find a bit about that in his book Reassess Your Chess 4th edition.
No, Harry Potter is just a character in the film.
Yes. Daniel Rensch probably has no clue that there is another goal in the chess scene : Harry and Hermione's pieces must not be captured.
Are you asking? Because it seems like you know this to be the case lol
Why would you put a question mark if you are making a positive assertion? Just put it this way: "They hired the IM Silman to create the chess puzzle in order to believably sacrifice the knight for mate in the Harry Potter Movie". No question mark needed whn you are making a positive assertion.
4:24 Danny's wrong here. There is another row of squares that we almost can't see, and if you count the squares from top to bottom, you'll only count 7. So they didn't get it wrong here.
Also, the board is built in to the table so they can't turn the board "wrong". Sure, they can film from the wrong angle but they didn't do that here because we saw the position and where the guy was sitting before the close up.
Also wrong at 4:30, lol. Not taking into account where the players are sitting.
I think the James Bond movie "From Russia with Love" might be too old for this, but they had an actual Spassky-Bronstein game.
Minus a few pawns to make it clearer to the unfamiliar masses
Apart from the dubious idea that the villain only brought the game to an early checkmate to get to a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. meeting, the set has the table centred on a chessboard style carpeted floor that is actually 9 x 9!
Yes. The players in the film were Spectre agent Kronstein and Canadian Grand Master ' Mac Adams ' ( even down to a pre - 1965. Canadian Red Ensign flag behind him .)
Another fun fact about the position at 16:20 is that there was actually a second way to deliver checkmate. Ron could have played Bc5+ Qxc5 Nh3# but Harry was the dark squared bishop in this game so Ron decided to sacrifice himself (the Knight) instead of Harry
Nice catch!
bishop > knight
Showing that Ron could more easily win by sacrificing Harry would have made his speech more relevant.
I remember that in the movie harry and hermione cannot be captured or else they will lose so thats why the checkmate its in that order
There is no other way - cuz this position requires that you don't loose either Harry or Hermione so the mate we saw was the only possible one
15:51 Fun fact, this position was actually composed by IM Jeremy Silman himself!
Alo Knight yep! And it’s actually a great combination. I didn’t quite do it justice here...
@@danielrensch9238 That's alright, I'm excited for the next episode. Will you touch on the movie "Pawn Sacrifice" at some point? I loved that movie but I know it definitely has a few errors and awkward moments.
@@aloknight3656 do the chess game from The Thing too lol.
Great video!
What sometimes irks me in movies is when two high level players spend ages hovering above the board, only to have one of them performing a mate in one, flabbergasting the other player.
The Simpsons one is actually kind of accurate as, at least in my city (NYC), the chess tables in the park are all set up wrong like that.
I hate when that happens!
The board was 8x7 as well😂
IMO the more annoying with films is that Hollywood dramatizes it like mate in 1 is always lurking behind some brilliant unseeable move, you have players that are supposed to be exceptional talents blundering mates in 1 constantly and before rubbing their eyes. I mean, blundering mate in 1 is something even a below average player would very rarely do, especially in slow chess.
(I brought up in a reply but in Sherlock Moriarty is so good at chess they can play without looking at the board reciting moves to each other but he fails to see a forced mate after Sherlock sacs his Queen and even goes as far as gloating about his superior position.)
Magnus blundered mate in 4 after sitting there for 5 minutes, so...
Well tbf in blindfold chess / not seeing the board it's at least a tad more likely to blunder something.
But yeah, lazy directors use chess to show someone's supposed intellectual superiority by delivering a surprise mate in 1 and it's just bad.
Well most ppl who watch Hollywood films aren't avid chess players either, it is certainly more correct if the losing player resigns the game before getting mated, but it is more anti-climactic for the general audience.
Its a few move sequence involving a queen sacrifice during a rapid game, so its not totally unbeliavable
"I dont even know how I'm supposed to comment on this" is how you should react to any scene from any episode of The Big Bang Theory
1:56 it's not exatly a dark square on the right!
It's from black perspective, not from white's. Which would be impossible to exist, if it weren't the fact that the board is a 8x7 board!
afbdreds :mindblown:
4:29
The board isn't flipped, the top right square is black, which means that the bottom right is white, you can even see the white square below the black one
Maybe the chess scene in "2001: A Space Odyssey" is so good because it stemmed from a game of Roesch vs. Willi Schlage.
Danny has mind reading powers this is EXACTLY what I have been pondering lately for some reason
Thanks for the video
Hayashi Manabu don’t tell anyone else 😉
"In chess the knight go first"
Reti
What about Amar, Dunst, and Durkin?
The kingless chess game at 0:40 is a synecdoche for Agrabah, whose ruler is absent thanks to Jafar's hypnosis. Every detail in those 90s Disney movies is intentional.
*starts game*
person: boom checkmate
audience: fascinating
Absolutely love this and can't wait for part 2! Hope you include the chess scenes from sherlock holmes a game of shadows and James Bond. They also reference chess a lot in Inception and Man from UNCLE.
Agadmator has a video covering the chess puzzle featured in Harry Potter.
Apparently the chess master whom they hired to compose the puzzle for the movie received no mention in the film's closing credits, despite everyone else who worked on the set's receiving proper recognition.
“The pawns go first”
Nf3: Am I a joke to you?
Thank you!
I laughed a lot , Especially the Star Trek part!
The X Men was even more deep than it looked because Xavier mated Magneto with the pawns which represent the humans and henceforth, his belief in cooperation between mutants and humans
lol yea wanna take it one step further he had to sac 3 pieces to mate 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Wow. To think they thought that hard about the game...
I love it in movies that depict world championship style chess matches when:
A) a player delivers checkmate (as if that ever actually happens)
B) not only do they deliver checkmate, but the opponent is surprised! A GM surprised by check mate in one! 😂
How about Sherlock Holmes playing chess?
Check agadmator's channel. He has it
So cool! Would you help us find part 2 please?
What a fun video 😁😁Thanks Danny!!!!
Hermione: "No! Ron! There HAS to be another way!"
Ron: *Valiantly sacrifices himself*
Hermione: "Got it! Bishop b5 check, Queen takes Bishop, Knight to h3 mate... Ron?... oh.."
Harry: *Makes totally inappropriate "best mate" joke*
Haha gold :)
would be funny if harry wasn't the bishop :)
@@ricksick81Cut me some slack man.. after all that effort I spend calculating millions of variations just so people would appreciate me a little bit 🙁
Also, he's the boy who lived.. Sponged up worse then some unfair incomplete cursed chess set that misses mate in 2..
I laughed my asssss off @ 13:10 Lmaooooo Dannys reaction is pricelessssssss
In Part 2, please do the chess scene from the BBC TV series "Bottom". It's the greatest chess scene in the history of TV!
I did not expect this to be laugh out loud funny. Danny's reaction to Charlie X and then the assassination were priceless.
Films I would like to see covered: "the Hateful eight", "Seventh seal" and the awful opening from both sides in "The girl with the dragon tattoo".
The game on the mentalist tv show is interesting. You should include it in part 2
with the examples of the board being flipped, its possible in a lot of cases that the editors decided the scene looked better mirrored as opposed to how it was originally shot, so it may have been set up correctly but flipped in editing
cheers for that, come back with more
I was only watching that x-file yesterday and I was preparing myself to comment about it assuming it wouldn't be in the video but it was! It's my favourite show however I would have given it a fail due to the GM still looking tense and deep in thought as he punches the clock as if he doesn't realise it was mate in 1.
In the Star Trek segment, Shattner could have been opposing a piece to stop the checks, and the last opposition was also a checkmante... Not wrong at all.
More of these please. Get some futurama scenes in there yeah?
For the chess park thing, it's not like the pieces are already there, it's usually sets people bring themselves and it makes total sense Magneto brought metal pieces because that's the whole point of what he's doing.
This is the quality content I like to see.
Spock is such an incredibly weak player that he can't see mate in one.
This is WHY I'm paying for access to the internet. Love this type of content.
I too buy technology sparingly. For instance, rather than buy "airpods" I buy normal head phones ($1-10) and put the cord under my shirt. Airpods can be lost more easily. If people use airpods to make phone calls, I would never do that in public. It can look like a crazy person.
Thanks, Dan Butler.
Great effort
Chess scene from James Bond: From Russia With Love c'mon c'mon
pretty bad ass scene, but also worn out after I've seen it so many times. check out the chess scenes from person of interest where harold finch teaches "his" machine how to play chess, might be of interest for you. I liked the series very much
Absolutely. Spoiler: the position in the game is from a Spassky-Bronstein game - the one in which Spassky allowed exf1=Q+, but Bronstein declined the offer- except the position in the movie is missing White pawns on d4 and c5.
@@tkokesh of course it is that position! Knew it when I saw the movie the first time (been playing chess long enough). thanks for pointing out!
Haha this is amazing! We love you Danny Rensch 😅
excellent video
@03.34 "in chess the pawns go first" - Magneto
"At least they got that right the pawns do go first" - Rensch
Rensch what about the Dunst and Reti openings?
If you can find it, there was a bunch of chess in Hey Arnold's "Sewer King" episode. There's a bunch of talk about openings, Spassky, and other references. Arnold goes on to win 7 in a row, which would end a 12 round world championship match, which I believe was done on purpose because they mention Spassky.
13:35 Ben Finegolds reaction when his students play f3
with 12:25 one, it's possible to move out of check adn deliver mate in a single move. Move your king and open a discovered mate
At 4:27, counting the squares reveals that the black square shown in the bottom right is a7, not a8, so the colouring was correct
It's always so cringey when a movie/show decides to add a chess scene but completely screws it up.
It seems so simple, don't even bother with a chess advisor or anything fancy, literally just Google a game between GMs and replicate it on the board. That simple!
The chess scene in Mr. Robot by Sam Esmail, Rami Malek plays Christian Slater.
I honestly thought it was brilliant and a hidden gem, I think you could make a 1hr video essay from that short scene. Just beautiful when you unpack it. 10/10
4:26 The black square isn’t on the right. If you look, you can see that below the black square we see there is another white square. That’s not the bottom of the board. We can however see the top of the board. Though we can’t explicitly see the top right corner, we can trace the diagonal to find out that there is a black square in the top right which is where it should be. The board is oriented correctly.
The 1968 tv series " The Prisoner " , episode # 9, ' Checkmate ' features a live game wirh human pieces.
Isn't it possible that there's some weird variation where it might be possible to deliver a checkmate while you're checked yourself. Like maybe your king is blocking another piece and once you move it, it's a checkmate
I can let the “white on right” technicality slide. Colored squares are just a convenience anyway. Impossible positions are disappointing though, especially if chess is in the plot.
A great chess scene is in the 2 "IMs" playing in From Russia With Love. I know Bobby Fisher wouldn't have resigned if he were playing.
The chess scene from Independence Day at 6:50 is actually in New Jersey, right across the Hudson River.
There is a Soviet movie “Grandmaster”, with Korchnoi as the main supporting actor, but also Tal, Petrosyan, Smyslov, Kotov, Averbakh in cameo. The final scene is a line from Alatortzev-Kholmov game.
Was that translated or i can find it in Russian only?
Has this been translated or i can find it in Russian only?
There is no openings scene from “From Russia with Love”? Why not?
Most of the chess scenes I see in movies are either terrible shots or shots where you can only see a fraction of the board for a split second. I wonder about the live chess game on Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner", The chess board in "Ace Ventura" where all the pieces are there and suddenly disappear, the positions on the old sci-fi "First Spaceship On Venus", the several positions in John Wayne's "McLintock", a few scenes on "Lost In Space", the game at the beginning of "From Russia With Love", and there are a few positions on the "Columbo" series.
Hoping my favorite one, 007: From Russia with Love will be in part ll
It frustrates me to see how many times the pieces are right, but the board is wrong. It is so common. Thanks, Danny!
you should analyse the chess game played in 'the catcher was a spy'. I'd love to see how their verbally played game actually went.
Good stuff. Don't forget the Coldest Game for the next video. Should have some good material there, lol.
There are also a russian movie on Alekhine and a recent polish movie that is on netflix on chess confrontation during cold war.
Saw Part 1 and Part 2. Was hoping you would have coverage of Sherlock Vs Professor M's game
Will you do chess scene from Naked Gun?
In a series adaptation of Sherlock Holmes called "Elementary" there is a scene in one episode where Sherlock plays a quick game against a friend of his and (at least according to their dialogue) begins the game with the Ponziani Opening.
In an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm plays chess against this one guy trash talking him and the Nimzowitsch Defense was mentioned.
agadmator has an exclusive video for harry potter's scene
There was a "chess" scene in the TV movie "Children of Dune", besides it being played on a hexagon board, do players ever play that fast?
Anybody notice in the x-files one, when the Russian falls to the floor the board falls to the floor with him, but when the camera switches back to Gibson, the board is back on the table?
You know that man was waiting to say chessual tension the whole scene
@12:56 this is why I love being a left handed chess player. Unless I play against another left handed chess player as white, I always get side
Did you do 1963's James Bond " From Russia With Love " ?..Begins with a ' Grand Master Tournament ' in Venice, with Spectre agent Kronstein playing.
Hey I really like this series!
Cool. I hope you review the scenes involving Kronsteen in From Russia with Love. There is also an entire episode in the old Mission: Impossible tv show called A Game of Chess (s2 ep17) where Jim Phelps must play and beat the U.S. champion in a chess tournament.
The Mission: Impossible episode could be a review show by itself. It featured:
(1) Phelps was noted as being pretty good chess player in college and he has like 2-3 days to study up on the game to be able to beat the best chess player in the U.S.
(2) The team uses some sort of univac style computer to feed Phelps moves to outplay the chess champions.
(3) There is one game where the chess champion loses in like 7 or 8 moves.
I’ve seen all the old series episodes. Sometimes when Phelps is in his bachelor pad at the start of the show and just before he picks his IMF team from the photo shoots, he is pondering a chess move over the board. Obviously, this means he is a genius.
Should've also included Mr Robot's chess scene
Yeah that was an amazing scene and an amazing tv show
At 4:30 or so x men one out at the chess park...Danny, he's pushing a pawn....a word looking pawn... There's a white square on the right... It's hard to see, because his hand is covering it... When the camera is coming up to the board, you can see the diagonally opposite corner to that right corner it's also a white square. I! think it's good
Danny is transforming into a real youtuber, how cute! Soon gonna start advertising NordVpn and Raid:Shadow Legends
Btw i totally wanna see Danny becoming a huge mainstream internet personality. He truly deserves all the fame and cash in the world
Kubrick was very high level chess player and was chess hustler to make a living along with his photography works in NYC when he got started. « The Killing » also had chess scenes in it, filmed at real NYC chess club with extras of the chess scene
For the next video you should do the Seventh seal and Mr robot chess scene
In the scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey, did you notice that HAL made a mistake with the notation? He said "Queen to Bishop 3", when it should have been "Queen to Bishop 6". HAL, the supposedly infallible computer, was already starting to go wrong!
Really like that.
In the ' 2001 ' clip, it would appear HAL didn't like Frank's play, but was polite about it.
For part 2 I hope for a mention Guy Ritchie's Revolver mention.
I don't know if their chess positions are 100% correct but they explain a lot of game theory and philosophy that is not just relevant to chess alone - it's actually being applied from the games of GMs to the games of chess engines themselves to pretty much everything in life... A great movie!
The chess scene in Aladdin was so incredibly inauthentic. There was no clock, no scoresheets, and no arbiter present.
Ya a check can be blocked by a piece and the same piece delivers mate to the king at the same time
Does anyone (besides me) remember that chess position from an episode of “Murder, She Wrote”?
Bart actually has a chance to win one game in this simultaneous match. The trick is to play as white on one board and black on the other, and repeat the opponent's moves on the other board (so the experienced players are actually playing each other).
Don't forget Holmes vs Moriarty in game of shadows for part 2. Someone even wrote a very good article about it on your website.
Will part two include a review of the chess in the movie, Fresh? A worthwhile movie even if you don't end up giving it a passing score.
2001: space odyssey was directed by stanley kubrick as many of us know, and kubrick was a chess fanatic and one of the best players in hollywood, so it's not surprising that this chess scene was right on the money! also-- bruce pandolfini was the technical chess advisor on the film, searching for BF, so...there ya go :D
The chess Pixar short is my favorite.
The Harry Potter one is actually really cool. Ron couldn't sacrifice or trade off Harry or Hermione, who were a Bishop and a Rook. So he had to find a mating combo that didn't involve sacrificing either of those pieces. And the puzzle checks out.
Do the chess scene from "The Wire"
"Pawns, they get capped quick"
Yeah in an open position d'Angelo.
"yo shut the fuck up man"
you can see carpet takes genie's queen with his/her queen, putting the king in check...? the top of the pieces are slightly different, even the bottoms are different, the king is rounded, while the queen has sharper edges, the queen also has a little rounding in the top of the crown, they are about the same height (kings and queens are the tallest pieces) you can clearly see the queen has a skinny neck and slowly getting larger at the bottom, whereas the king has like a belly
The TV show Psych has a chess match in the opening and ending of an episode.