Archive for the ‘Documentaries’ Category
1984 Phillips & Drew / GLC Kings
Posted in Documentaries on May 13, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The 1990 World Championship Match
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Nine days to win
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Isle of Man Documentary
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England 1991
Posted in Documentaries on May 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Here is a short video containing England’s best players in 1991 and their account of chess at the highest level in England and in general.
Grandmaster Clash
Posted in Documentaries on May 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
For the longest time, I have believed the greatest documentary ever made on chess was the BBC production Grandmaster Clash. Impartiality aside, that it shoots the English Olympiad conquest of 1988, coupled with it being one of the very first documentaries I ever saw, just may have something to do with it.
Written by Steven Fry, it is very well-produced and makes for great viewing. After searching for well over a decade, and even writing to the BBC to see if they had it in their archives, finally I can link it for you. It’s a well-written, well-directed must watch – no doubt about it.
MJM
Closing Gambit
Posted in Documentaries on October 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Closing Gambit is a contemporary, well-produced, and coveted documentary. It’s entertaining, informative and fascinating throughout. There are many ways in which events can be retold, and this documentary does a fine job of doing just that. It’s usually not free on Youtube but I have found a free version and linked it here.
There are comments that are, in my opinion, contentious but I don’t wish to go into that here. However, I do want to offer up a fuller account of Soviet chess then the one offered in the documentary. You can find that below. Generally speaking, it is better to go to academic historians than chess players with regards to the history of Soviet chess, as Dr. Eales clearly states here with his broader account of the subject matter which is in itself based on discourse. A good introduction.
Kasparov talks
Posted in Documentaries on October 22, 2023| Leave a Comment »
An entertaining and informative Kasparov can be found here. And if you’ve ever read his book ‘How life imitates chess’, you will hear some well-rehearsed, familiar content. It’s worth a watch, he can be a great orator at times.
MJM
Chess Fever
Posted in Chess, Documentaries on September 2, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The 1925 Soviet cinematic attempt to further popularise chess can be found below (feat. Capablanca)
Lost and Found
Posted in Documentaries on January 25, 2021| Leave a Comment »
A favourite from yesteryear would appear to have gone awry, thankfully found once more. Hard to top indeed.
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A side note on how to read old Tom Sweby's columns
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Not perhaps, but quintessentially, Old Tom Sweby is best thought of as a passionate devotee to the newspapers he wrote for. He was well read and knowledgeable of the Bedfordshire chess scene and well beyond, given that he was the president of the S.C.C.U. once upon a time. He was generally well-respected and rubbed shoulders with many, if not all, of those eminent within British chess circles. It would, however, be a critical mistake to see his column is primary source material entirely. That it is not. You will also find secondary source material quoted too, and the reliability of that is not quite as Tom hoped. Given that he wrote for decades, this is to some degree inevitable, and after all we are all prone to error whether we realize it or not. Thankfully, with regards to old Tom Sweby, they are infrequent and for the most part old Tom continued to document events and developments in the Bedfordshire league from the get go as best he could but, of course, everything lies open to interpretation. Despite this, and generally speaking. this does indeed make him informative and thus worth reading. Dare I say his columns constitute a narrative describing the latest developments, match reports and changing nature of the Beds league...he knew his audience and wrote according. This manifested itself over decades but brevity was always in play courtesy of the restictions imposed by writing a column. Should you wish to read a in instrumental figure of the Beds' league post WW2, you are quite welcome to peruse what has been posted here... . :-) I should, however, point out that as the decades wore on he gradually moved on away from narratives concerning the Bedfordshire league towards affairs both historical and international. The reasons for this are multifarous, old age was a predominante factor presumably, however, the bottom line is with regards to how the Bedfordshire chess scene developed post WW2: old Tom Sweby is your go to guy. He wrote more about chess in Bedforshire than anyone else did but given he was a Lutonian and writing for a Luton newspaper there is both bias and greater coverage of his hometown than the rest of the county.
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