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aurum025
12/18/2007
17:56:31
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 Subject: House MD chess game
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Hey if there are any fans of the Tv show "House" out there u might recall that last season house played a game of chess with a patient who happened to be a child chess prodigy, i was able to reconstruct the game and u can see my annotations of it here:
 gameknot.com
Enjoy,
Alex
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chessnovice
12/19/2007
00:57:33
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Really interesting. Impressive that you were able to reconstruct that.
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aurum025
12/19/2007
15:09:55
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Thanks, it was a fun holiday project :)
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ionadowman
12/19/2007
16:06:45
[ report abuse ] | Well done...
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... These kinds of exercises aren't easy! I wonder if the game might be traceable to a master game, say. If so, it might solve the mystery of the Rb1 move.
As I comment at the end of your annotation, there have occasionally been master games featured on TV or film. The most notable being the Ed. Lasker vs Geo. Thomas game (featured on a British TV serial in the '60s) and another in an episode of "Lexx" that I subsequently found by accident was a master game. This latter game, by the way, would probably be much easier to construct as I'm certain every move is shown. It too features early pressure by one side that looks almost decisive, but the opponent comes back with a spectacular finish. I've forgotten who played the original game (possibly it was late 19th century or maybe early 20th). Maybe someone else knows?
By the way, the game featured in the Harry Potter movie (The Philosopher's [Sorceror's] Stone) doesn't seem to be based on any master game. But the closing position is a plausible one, though Harry's announcement strictly speaking isn't checkmate (I think it's mate in two).
Finally, the game featured in the musical "Chess" is in fact a made up composition by Bill Hartston. In this game white sacrifices during the course of the game a pawn, a knight, a bishop, a rook, and finally his queen.
Cheers,
Ion
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bucklehead
12/19/2007
16:55:09
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...claims to have been the brain behind the chess game in the Harry Potter film ( www.jeremysilman.com ) and has an interesting discussion about it.
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knightnothorse
12/19/2007
19:52:49
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Man, that was so cool that you put this up here. Thanks a lot! My wife and I are *huge* House fans, especially when this chess episode came on, she was asking me all these questions about the game -- that was great. Nice job! :)
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apastpawn
12/19/2007
22:28:07
[ report abuse ] | Had the same thought
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that Ion had, tried to research it last night and no luck. Hollywood is lazy, would be easier for them to find an existing game with an interesting ending rather then to make one up. At least they got the jargon somewhat right (speaking of the opening names). I've seen a few chess games even set-up wrong on numerous shows. I'm always finding errors in medical shows and naval shows which are my background/vocations.
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potus
12/21/2007
13:51:49
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The position in the Bond film The Spy Who loved me is from the game Spassky-Bronstein, with a few minor alteration to a few pawn positions. A David Norwood game is featured in a film called the grass arena
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bucklehead
12/23/2007
16:36:34
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...the Bond position is actually in "From Russia With Love," where it is played by a SPECTRE guy named Kronstein. Very clever.
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ketchuplover
12/24/2007
08:07:42
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impressive. most impressive. thanks
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