Pawn Sacrifice

IMDb link: 1596345
IMDb rating: 7 (54,130 votes)
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography, Sport, History
Director: Liev Schreiber, Edward Zwick
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg and others

Release date: 25 Sep 2015
Release year: 2014
Runtime: 115 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: chess, cold war, chess master, richard m. nixon character, island, paranoid personality disorder, epilogue, brooklyn new york city, cia central intelligence agency, reference to communism

Plot:

During the Cold War chess grandmaster Bobbie Fischer takes on Boris Spassky, the Soviet world champion. Though Fischer wants a normal match against his rival the United states wants it to be seen as the Cold War played out on the chess board. All of this isn't helping the fact that Fischer is constantly dealing with paranoia. This is the world of chess like you've never seen it before.

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