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Searching for Bobby Fischer

The movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (1993), by S.E. Zaillian in his directorial debut is, maybe, the best film ever made about chess and chess world. If I remember rightly, I wrote something about this movie some years ago on this blog . Usually, chess-based films are pieces of nonsense unable to grasp the magic and the passion that stir the hearts of players all around the world. "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is such an interesting film about the subject because the game itself is not the point of the plot. Indeed, it's a movie about the relationship between fathers and sons. More accurately, about how fathers project their dreams of grandeur and success on their sons, specially on the more gifted ones. Fortunately, the film was screened in Europe. Its British title was the slightly absurd "Innocent moves". It was corrected translated into Spanish as "En busca de Bobby Fischer". I've just received an e-mail from a chess-colleague...