Comments on: Chess in popular culture

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Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:30:25 +0000

[…] won the National Chess Championship and became famous when the movie Searching For Bobby Fischer, 2 depicting his early years, was filmed. Many years later, Josh Waitzkin gave up chess and achieved […]

By: Mistreaver

Mistreaver — Tue, 02 May 2017 10:29:29 +0000

In reply to Anzor.

Hi Anzor,
Thank you very much for this comment.
Thank you for reminding me of Lewis Carol. To be honest, one could probably write a whole book about chess references in popular culture, although I agree that Alice is definitely one of the more prominent.
Good luck with your speech 🙂
Cheers
Vjekoslav

By: Anzor

Anzor — Tue, 02 May 2017 00:06:36 +0000

Thank you for this summary. I have to make a speech for my Toasmasters club, so I decided to speak about chess. As part of my speech I wanted to highlight the prominence of chess in pop culture.
One additional reference I can think of is Lewis Carol’s “Alice through the Looking Glass”. If I remember correctly, the whole story inside the Looking Glass is developed on a chess board, not to mention the active role the “White Queen” and the “Red Queen” play in the book.

By: Mistreaver

Mistreaver — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 06:21:41 +0000

In reply to Nule i ništa. wow, I haven't heard of this one. Thanks, will try to take a look :)

By: Nule i ništa

Nule i ništa — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 01:08:00 +0000

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0104627/ 😉

By: Mistreaver

Mistreaver — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:37:01 +0000

In reply to Igor Detelj.

Thank you very much for your comment Igor.
I will try to watch the Capablanca as soon as possible, I wasn’t aware of it, thanks 🙂
Hmm, I think if Fischer wasn’t such a peculiar character he was, episodes such as chess in Simpsons could have happened much earlier. Because after his match with Spassky there was a real boom in the USA