[math-fun] Chess game in current Sherlock Holmes movie
I saw this movie yesterday. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes:_A_Game_of_Shadows Q: Is the chess game in the movie real? The characters call out their moves in usual notation, but the chess board isn't shown. For those of you chess nuts who can do chess in your heads, would this be a real game? 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.
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).
No, the only moves I can recall were "bishop takes bishop" (which fits in with the overall story meaning assigned to "bishop") and "discovered check & mate". For more math-fun-like issues: Some chess problems involve guessing the initial position of pieces given only a sequence of moves; another problem might be a sequences of moves in which one move has been obscured (there was a move, but we don't know exactly what it was) -- we now have to guess what that move was based upon the previous & subsequent moves. (The initial & final board positions are likely not given.) I would imagine that one could relatively easily modify a chess-playing program to help in the analysis of such problems. At 11:01 AM 12/21/2011, Hans Havermann wrote:
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).
I haven't seen the movie, but I started a discussion here: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/sherlock-holmes-a-game-of-shadows One person said: the credits (on IMDB <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4668958/>) have Adam Raoof<http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=405230>(I assume that is the same guy) listed a technical adviser for chess If the director didn't change things up to make it more interesting then I would guess it was a real game. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
I saw this movie yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes:_A_Game_of_Shadows
Q: Is the chess game in the movie real? The characters call out their moves in usual notation, but the chess board isn't shown.
For those of you chess nuts who can do chess in your heads, would this be a real game?
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.
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