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- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSanjeev KumarSaeed JaffreyShabana AzmiIn 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
- DirectorRobert W. PaulStarsAlfred CollinsA stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting of a seltzer bottle, then with fisticuffs. The combatants wrestle each other to the floor and continue the fight out of the camera's view, hidden by the table. The waiter arrives to haul both of them out.
- DirectorWilliam AzaroffStarsAmy DeBourgetAdrian AmadeusNathan HedmanCheckMating is a romantic comedy about a woman who tests her dates by playing games of chess with them.
- DirectorChristopher SwartoutStarsVincent D'OnofrioKathryn ErbeJamey SheridanGoren finds himself matching wits with a paranoid chess master suspected of murdering a young woman in town to visit her fiancée.
- DirectorAlan ByronStarsMichael AdamsMuhammad AliViswanathan AnandFascinating story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
- StarsGerard CoxJoke BruijsSjoerd PleijsierThe girls are collecting clothes for East Priest Aid. Harmsen really appreciates this help from the East, after all, isn't that where the greatest chess masters come from?
- DirectorPernilla HindsefeltIn an old library, two armies of chess pieces are about to start a war.
- DirectorCarl SchenkelStarsChristopher LambertTom SkerrittCodie Lucas WilbeeDuring a chess tournament, grand master Peter is suspected of murdering Debi after sex. He helps the police as the murders continue.
- 1979–198826mTV-146.0 (170)TV EpisodeDirectorGraham EvansStarsMichael JaystonAndrew RayLynette Davies'GB' lives his life according to logic. He tells the story of how he became the best chess player in the world.
- DirectorEdward ZwickStarsTobey MaguireLiev SchreiberPeter SarsgaardSet during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
- DirectorGordon HuntStarsKelsey GrammerJane LeevesDavid Hyde PierceFrasier buys an elaborate antique chess set, but becomes obsessed by his inability to win against Martin.
- DirectorAlf KjellinStarsPeter GravesMartin LandauBarbara BainThe IMF's target is an international chess grandmaster who also is planning to steal gold seized from the opposition movement of an unnamed Soviet Bloc country. Rollin poses as an amateur chess player, helped by a computer Barney is running that is unbeatable at chess. The plan, devised by Phelps, also calls for a devious way of snatching the gold from both the chess player and the authorities.
- DirectorEd ByeStarsAdrian EdmondsonRik MayallRichie and Eddie are depressed when their TV set is taken away when they fail to pay the rent and cannot think of anything to keep themselves occupied. Richie decides to challenge Eddie at playing some games, including "How much custard can you put in your underpants" and chess. Richie and Eddie decide to play chess by using various items in the house to replace the missing pieces.
- DirectorCaroline BottaroStarsSandrine BonnaireKevin KlineFrancis RenaudA chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l'Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.
- DirectorLiz GarbusStarsBobby FischerDavid EdmondsAnthony Saidy'Bobby Fischer Against the World' is a documentary feature exploring the tragic and bizarre life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer. The drama of Bobby Fischer's career was undeniable, from his troubled childhood, to his rock star status as World Champion and Cold War icon, to his life as a fugitive on the run. This film explores one of the most infamous and mysterious characters of the 20th century.
- DirectorLuis CámaraStarsGabrielle GalanterIan AbercrombieBobby GaylorAn ordinary chess game between a man and a woman turns into a battle of the sexes.
- DirectorDamian ChapaStarsDamian ChapaHedo DavisChristine ManoukianA bio about the life of Bobby Fischer.
- DirectorJan PinkavaStarsBob PetersonGeri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself.
- DirectorJoey TravoltaStarsMatt SchulzeLochlyn MunroDavid CarradineA psychic and a cop track a serial killer who is copying a killer who just got executed.
- DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsJoe MantegnaBen KingsleyMax PomerancA prepubescent chess prodigy is encouraged to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMykola ShpykovskyiStarsJosé Raúl CapablancaVladimir FogelAnna ZemtsovaWith an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
- DirectorGiacomo BattiatoStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerThomas Brodie-SangsterGiovanna MezzogiornoHoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Germans kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly, advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks, or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
- DirectorArvin N. BernerStarsZachary Wood BarnesRobin BjerkeAmelia VarniAaron Carlson doesn't have the grades, the money, or the connections to realize his dreams of law school. But finally a judge offers him an opportunity: win a chess tournament and win admission to law school.