There has been large-scale participation in chess, both competitively and recreationally, from people via computers during the lockdown. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and starring Madina Nalwanga and Lupita Nyong’o, the film is unique for being a chess movie based on the life of an African woman, when most of the chess movies depict the stories of white men. Pawn Sacrifice (2014)The 2014 Edward Zwick directorial is a biographical drama on the rise of Bobby Fischer from a young chess enthusiast in New York to winning the World Chess Championship in 1972. READ | Five of the greatest chess matches ever playedThe film stars Tobey Maguire as Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Russian grandmaster and Fischer’s rival, Boris Spassky. The Luzhin Defence (2000)Based on Vladimir Nabokov’s book The Defence, the Marleen Gorris directorial chronicles the journey of a mentally tormented young chess grandmaster and the woman he meets while competing at a chess tournament in Italy.

Source: Indian Express May 30, 2020 18:42 UTC