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> Movie Plot Based on Chess
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> I have often tried to create a screenplay or a movie plot based on
> chess. Sometimes I think of fragments but never a full plot. Perhaps
> some others can contribute some ideas.
>
> Here is one idea. The start is similar to the movie "Dirty Dozen".
>
> A man is laboring deep in the Salt Mines of Siberia chipping away at
> the salt, in horrible drudgery.
>
> In the next scene, Stalin is yelling. "We must send a man to represent
> us in the World Chess Championship. A man who can beat the best in the
> world and prove the superiority of the Soviet System. Where can we
> find that man?"
>
> Beria replies, "Well, actually, we have such a man".
>
> Stalin says, "Bring him here".
>
> Beria Replies, "But, he is in the bottom of a salt mine."
>
> "I don't care where he is, Bring him out", says Stalin.
>
> Next, we shift to a torture chamber at Auschwitz. A man is the subject
> of medical experiments and being injected with poisons. He is on the
> brink of death but Hitler calls Dr. Josef Mengele to bring him out to
> send him to play for the world chess championship.
>
> A chess player goes to the chess tables in Luneta Park in the
> Philippines late at night. One of the players at the tables says: "Do
> you play chess?"
>
> "Yes. A little", is the reply
>
> "How good are you?
>
> "I am a beginner?"
>
> "Oh. I am a beginner too. So, we have an even match: A Filipino
> beginner against an American beginner! Let's play for pesos."
>
> After the Filipino beginner loses the first game, he goes looking
> under the chess tables to wake up a chess master who is sleeping
> there. When he finally finds him, the guy crawls out from under the
> table bleary eyed and sits down at the board and wins the game.
>
> Later on in the movie, the protagonist is sitting at the board in a
> tournament for the world chess championship. When his opponent arrives
> it turns out to be the same sleepy Filipino Chess Player.
>
> If anybody has any ideas, please contribute.
>
> Sam Sloan
>