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Pawn Sacrifice: Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Sep 15, 2015 · Pawn Sacrifice winds up feeling an awful lot like Rocky IV, just substituting chess for boxing. There is the intimidating Russian champion who wants nothing more than the opportunity to play his ...
WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili wraps up her overview of pawn sacrifices in the middlegame with a powerful pawn sacrifice to break open the opponent's kingside.
Pawn Sacrifice (dansk titel Sidste træk) er en amerikansk biografisk dramafilm fra 2014 om skakstormester og 11. verdensmester Bobby Fischer. Det følger Fischers udfordring mod de bedste sovjetiske skakstormestre under den kolde krig og kulminerede i VM-kampen i skak 1972 mod Boris Spassky i Reykjavík , Island .
May 10, 2016 · Pawn Sacrifice Movie Review. Story: Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest – if not the greatest – chess champions who ever lived. A complex character to say the least, Fischer’s gift came ...
Jul 15, 2019 · Magnus Carlsen's Amazing Pawn Sacrifices. There is a well-known chess joke (or maybe not even a joke!) that it is much more difficult to sacrifice a pawn than a queen. Indeed, in most queen sacrifices you get huge dividends right away, since it is difficult to imagine a player sacrificing his queen just to get (for example) a good square for ...
Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire, winds up feeling an awful lot like Rocky IV, just substituting chess for boxing. How is Bobby Fischer like Rocky Balboa? Pawn Sacrifice knows.
