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The site's consensus reads: "As sensitive as the young man at its center, Searching for Bobby Fischer uses a prodigy's struggle to find personal balance as the background for a powerfully moving drama." [15] On Metacritic the film has a score of 89 based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [16]
The 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer, adapted from its eponymous book, uses Fischer's name in the title although the film and book are both based on the life of fellow chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin, whose father, Fred Waitzkin, wrote the book. [577] Outside of the United States, it was released as Innocent Moves. [578]
Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion.It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland.
The script for Paramount Pictures' 1993 film Searching for Bobby Fischer (released in the United Kingdom as Innocent Moves) was based on a 1988 book by Waitzkin's father, Fred Waitzkin: Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess.
How to Beat Bobby Fischer. Random House. ISBN 0812904699. Müller, Karsten. (2010). Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion. Russell Enterprises Inc. ISBN 1888690682. O. Olafsson, Helgi. (2012). Bobby Fischer Comes Home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions. New In Chess.
Fischer therefore qualifies to play Boris Spassky in a match for the World Championship in 1972. Commencing with his final seven games at the 1970 Palma de Mallorca Interzonal and finishing with his first match game with Petrosian, Fischer's run of twenty consecutive wins is the longest in first class chess since Wilhelm Steinitz established ...
The Great Chess Movie (French: Jouer sa vie) is a 1982 Canadian film directed by Gilles Carle and Camille Coudari, starring Bobby Fischer, Viktor Korchnoi, Anatoly Karpov and Ljubomir Ljubojević among other notable chess players. The 80-minute documentary is produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Bobby Fischer Against the World is a documentary feature film that explores the life of chess Grandmaster and 11th World Champion Bobby Fischer. [1] It incorporates interviews with chess players Anthony Saidy, Larry Evans, Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar, Garry Kasparov, Asa Hoffmann, Friðrik Ólafsson, Lothar Schmid and others.