Re: [math-fun] Chess game in current Sherlock Holmes movie

Henry Baker:

The characters call out their moves in usual notation, but the chess board isn't shown.

You don't remember the call-outs? ;)

I would imagine that after spending $125 million in making this movie, someone must have hired a chess person for a few hundred dollars to make the game real.

I've looked at a few chess-in-the-movies instances on my own (dentist Bob Basalla wrote the 'bible') and I've been both disappointed by discontinuities in the presented games (The Seventh Seal, Geri's Game) and delighted by an actual game implied in an inconspicuous board position in the 2007 movie Fracture (1rr3k1/5ppp/pp2pn2/4N3/8/1P4P1/ P2RPPKP/3R4).