Thanks for asking Hans, Henry et al! Actually not much of the footage of the actual game we filmed survived the edit, but it was a famous Larsen game with reversed colours and using some variations - I will dig it out and send you the score on Friday when I get home! Sent from my iPod On 21 Dec 2011, at 21:38, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:

Adam Raoof's rating is 2127 !! I'm impressed. Perhaps we should simply ask him; I just cc'd him on this email.

At 01:13 PM 12/21/2011, Paul Reiners wrote:

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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:

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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.