Queen of Katwe (2016), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Critical Thinking (2020), Computer Chess (2013), Knight Moves (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chess Tournament movies.
Storyline: Living in Katwe, a slum in Kampala, Uganda, is a constant struggle for 10-year-old Phiona, her mother Nakku Harriet and younger members of her family. She and her younger brother help their mother sell maize in the market. She also helps care for her baby brother. Her world changes one day when she meets Robert Katende at a missionary program. Katende coaches soccer and teaches children to play chess at a local center. Curious, Phiona approaches and learns the game. She becomes fascinated with it and soon becomes a top player in the group under Katende's guidance..
Plot Keywords: young girl, missionary, chess player, parent, rival, chess grandmaster, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Plot Keywords: chess player, prodigy, young man, chess grandmaster, russian, government official, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Miami - 1998. Poverty, broken families, and a prejudiced system push underprivileged youth to the fringes of society. But for a magnetic group of teens, there's a reprieve. A game where it's not about where you come from, but how you play. That equalizer is chess. Mr. "T" Martinez, a chess militant and passionate coach, leads them to a completely foreign field of battle.
Plot Keywords: teacher, student, friend, drug dealer, parent, african-american, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.—Production
Plot Keywords: developer, human, chess player, amusing, creative, chess tournament, technology ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: serial killer, chess grandmaster, police detective, psychologist, girlfriend, eerie, shocking ...
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