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lancillotto77 18-Dec-11, 10:52 |
 "The French Defense" TV playDuring the play the actors play the actual match played by the two back in the day. Also, this is an interesting account of Stalin and post-Stalin era USSR from the chess player point of view. Here's part one from Youtube: www.youtube.com I hope you guys enjoy it, any comment would be nice. |
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I loved it, I watched all five, very interesting, I would love to see something like that on Fischer!! Thanks for the post. |
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lancillotto77 19-Dec-11, 01:01 |
The knight who killed kings gatherfield.com It's not video, but I'm sure you'll enjoy it. |
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" 'The French Defense' TV play" |
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I think... Unfortunately, to achieve this, one feels that the writer had to do some violence to the real characters of the protagonists. At that, one felt that the verbal exchanges didn't really match what was happening on the board. It was almost as if GM Botvinnik didn't give a damn. I would much rather have seen the game as a struggle in which the younger is seen as the hero, with the champion as the elder generation standing in the way of the new (which in my view would have a very strong sociological meaning in today's world). Nor is the elder ready to go quietly. Complicating the issue is the accumulated knowledge and understanding the elder possesses that the younger has yet to acquire. But where cooperation might lead to great things, there is only competition. The implication is of course that at best GM Tal, having overcome the elder, is now himself the elder awaiting the next challenger. A sequel to this play would have been interesting, in that GM Botvinnik was himself the next challenger. All this sounds a bit Oedipal, I accept, but I'm inclined to view Freud's psychology as a caricature of a much bigger picture. |
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lancillotto77 01-Jan-12, 16:57 |
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