Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. 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. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight, and stars Tobey Maguire as Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Spassky, Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer, and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2015.[6]
The film received generally positive reviews, with many critics praising Maguire's performance, but grossed only $5 million worldwide against a budget of $19 million.
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PawnSacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. It follows Fischer's...
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passed pawn A passed pawn that is supported by another pawn. pseudo sacrifice See sham sacrifice. push 1. v. To move a pawn forward. 2. n. A pawn move...
Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington and Jason Scott Lee, as well as the film PawnSacrifice, based on U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, with Tobey Maguire playing...
reached by the sequence: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 Black can then offer a pawnsacrifice with 3...b5 (the Benko Gambit), otherwise 3...e6 is the most common...
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Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 Black sacrifices a pawn for enduring queenside pressure. White can accept or decline the gambit pawn. The Encyclopaedia of Chess...
chess, a passed pawn is a pawn with no opposing pawns to prevent it from advancing to the eighth rank; i.e. there are no opposing pawns in front of it...
plays correctly, White should not have sufficient compensation for the sacrificedpawn, but it can be difficult to prove this over the board. Davies suggests...
cxd4 cxd4 6.Qa4+ Nc6 7.Bb5 Bd7 8.Bxc6 Bxc6 9.Qxd4 Bxf3 is a strong pawnsacrifice, giving Black excellent compensation. 3.c4 transposes into the Symmetrical...
game of chess, the pawn structure (sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least mobile...
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