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this is what Silman said, Unfortunately, movie d...

2011-12-27T16:06:20.572+08:00

this is what Silman said,

Unfortunately, movie dynamics once again turned a well thought out chess situation into mumbo-jumbo (though it looked very energetic on the big screen). The length of the film demanded some cuts, so the moves of this whole scene were more or less slashed to …Nh3+ (Ron’s sacrifice) and …Be3 mate (notice that …Be3 doesn’t capture the Queen…very, very sad. I still feel that this was a real missed opportunity and would have enriched the whole on-screen scene immeasurably.).

I posted about this a long time ago. Here is the l...

2011-12-27T16:05:17.200+08:00

I posted about this a long time ago. Here is the link. (sorry deleted my first comment):

http://sicilian-najdorf.blogspot.com/2009/08/real-chess-in-movies-i-totally-agree.html#links

2011-12-27T15:59:06.780+08:00

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