Tobey Maguire
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Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical 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.
Sep 25, 2015 · Pawn Sacrifice: Directed by Edward Zwick. With Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard. Set 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.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Edward Zwick
- 2015-09-25
Nov 28, 2023 · What Does a Pawn Sacrifice Mean? A pawn sacrifice is performed with the intent of losing or sacrificing one of your pawn pieces for a future payoff by manipulating your opponent's pieces into a more advantageous position or setting up a potential trap.
Sep 23, 2015 · The Pawn Sacrifice true story confirms that Fischer started playing chess at age six after his mother moved him and his sister Joan from Chicago to Brooklyn.
Sep 16, 2015 · NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chess writer and grandmaster Andy Soltis about 11th World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer and the movie Pawn Sacrifice.
Sep 16, 2015 · In chess a player judges a sacrifice by the “compensation” received for it—attacking chances, active pieces, nebulous things of that nature.
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