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Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies

Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies

Every journey begins with a single move.Aug. 13, 1993110 Min.
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Watch: Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies, Full Movie Online – Josh Waitzkin is just a typical American boy interested in baseball when one day he challenges his father at chess and wins. Showing unusual precocity at the outdoor matches at Washington Square in New York City, he quickly makes friends with a hustler named Vinnie who teaches him speed chess. Josh’s parents hire a renowned chess coach, Bruce, who teaches Josh the usefulness of measured planning. Along the way Josh becomes tired of Bruce’s system and chess in general and purposely throws a match, leaving the prospects of winning a national championship in serious jeopardy..
Plot: A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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Don’t play against the board play against the man
***SPOILERS*** The movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” parallels the lives of Grand Chess Master Bobby Fischer with that of young seven year-old chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, Max Pomeranc. The movie does it by inserting newsreel footage of Bobby winning the World Chess Championship Tournament in Reykjavik Iceland back in 1972 against the Soviet Unions Boris Spassky. It then jumps back to when Bobby Fischer was a young boy, and man, in the 1950’s and 1960’s as his obsession with chess brought him the fame and glory that he sought. Yet at the same time denied him the life of a normal boy growing up in post WWII America that his night and day chess fixation cost him.

Josh has lots of promise in becoming a future Bobby Fischer; he has a computer-like mind and a natural ability to foresee moves by his opponents, even before they even know that they’ll make them. One thing that Josh doesn’t have is that drive and determination, as well as killer-instinct, that Bobby Fisher had and as far as I know still does in playing to win and pulverizing his opponents into the ground by doing it.

Josh likes all kinds of sports, besides chess, and his dad Fred Waitzkin, Joe Mantegna, is a sports writer who takes Josh along to the Yankee and New York Mets baseball games where the young boy really has as much of a good time watching the ball games as he has playing chess. Fred realizes what a whiz his young son Josh is in the game of chess and wants to have him study the finer points of the game by hiring former national chess champion Bruce Pandolfini, Ben Kingsley, to tutor him and Bruce right away realizes that Josh has the makings of another Bobby Fischer. What does bother Bruce about Josh is his playing with the local chess hustlers like Winnie, Laurence Fishburn, in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Which, in Bruce’s opinion, is far to fast and doesn’t give young Josh time to develop his all around concentration and understanding of the game of chess.

During the course of the movie Josh is driven relentlessly by Bruce in his attempt to mold him into another Bobby Fischer but Josh slowly starts to lose his interest in winning all the chess tournaments that he enters. The very fact of his invincibility makes Josh feel uneasy since it’s always expected of him to win, like the sun is expected to rise in the morning, that there’s no fun or excitement in it for him any more. Losing becomes more of a growing experience for Josh and even arouses his passions in making him feel more human. Josh is also too sensitive to beat down his opponents, like Bobby Fischer did. That later lost him the championship game against the likewise seven year-old chess phenomenon Jonathan Poe, Michael Nirenberg.

After his defeat to Jonathan Josh is looked on as if he let down all those who believed in him and at the same time he starts to get his life back together as a young boy living a normal life and not carrying the weight of the entire world of chess on his shoulders. It’s during this time that the real talent that Josh had in playing chess comes up to the surface, without him being driven relentlessly by Bruce. Those untapped talents leads him to go back to playing chess, first with his friend at the park Winnie, and then working his way back in winning a number of tournaments to his becoming a top chess champion competitor. All that finally earns Josh a re-match with Jonathan for the Junior Chess Championship of the US in Chicago at the conclusion of the film.

Powerful movie and very intense for the young boys and girls in it in how they drive and push themselves to be the best at the game of chess and at the same time putting themselves in danger of sacrificing their one and only childhood to do it.

Josh Waitzkin did reach the top back then when the movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer” was made in 1993 and is still there some ten years, and dozens of tournaments, later. He did it without losing both his childhood and his kind heart and sensitivity for his fellow man by doing it.

Review By: sol-kay
Drama about chess, life and staying true to oneself
Despite the title, “Searching for Bobby Fischer” (1993) isn’t about the extraordinary chess champion, Bobby Fischer, but rather true-life chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin (played convincingly by Max Pomeranc). The story chronicles his rise to prominence as a 7-8 year-old in the world of chess competition. The eccentric and reclusive Fischer permeates the proceedings, however, as he’s constantly referred to and there’s even footage of him being interviewed or beating a dozen experts simultaneously, etc. Joe Mantegna and Joan Allen play Josh’s father & mother while Ben Kingsley and Laurence Fishburne play his formal and informal teachers respectively.

I don’t think you need to know about chess to enjoy this film, but it wouldn’t hurt. It’s primarily a drama and, secondarily, a sports film. Being about chess, it lacks the action of conventional sports films, but it’s a sports film nevertheless with its inherent formula. Regardless, I was surprised at how suspenseful they made the final match, which isn’t easy to do since chess doesn’t seemingly lend itself to cinema.

This is a film that’ll likely improve on repeat viewings because there are a few interesting subtexts. For instance, Josh’s formal instructor and his dad keep trying to mold him into the likeness of Fischer and his misanthropic mindset, but Josh’s mother and informal instructor encourage him to be who he is and play naturally. The former two foster rigid discipline and contemptible aggressiveness while the latter two encourage spontaneity and the joy of the game. Perhaps a balance between both is best.

Years ago I informally studied chess for a couple of years, reading books and manually performing all the moves, buying & playing computer sets, etc. but I’d only be considered average at best compared to the child players in the film. The reason I bring this up is because, as much as I knew on the topic at the time, I realized I merely touched the surface and that there were whole new realms to explore, learn and master. This is the way it is with any great sport/art/topic/occupation. To truly grasp any one of them and master it to any degree requires serious determination and great sacrifice. You can’t be a jack of all trades and expect to be extraordinary in one.

The movie also seems to be saying that you shouldn’t sacrifice everything else to be a chess master and lose the joy of playing, the joy of living. After all, what good is that? While this is true, it only goes so far and Waitzkin’s life since the movie proves it: He wanted to do other things than be a chess champion, which is fine, but to do so he had to drop out of chess competition altogether, which he did in 1999. By contrast, Garry Kasparov is considered the most consistent chess champion, holding the record for the longest time as the No. 1 rated player in the world from 1986 to 2005 (two freakin’ decades), precisely because of his skill, determination and sacrifices.

The movie inspires you to look up the incredible Fischer who reigned supreme in the 60s through early 70s and then dropped off the face of the earth. In 1981 he stayed with grandmaster Peter Biyiasas for four months where he beat Biyiasas seventeen times in speed chess. Biyiasas later testified in a Sports Illustrated interview: “He was too good. There was no use in playing him. It wasn’t interesting. I was getting beaten, and it wasn’t clear to me why. It wasn’t like I made this mistake or that mistake. It was like I was being gradually outplayed, from the start. He wasn’t taking any time to think. The most depressing thing about it is that I wasn’t even getting out of the middle game to an endgame. I don’t ever remember an endgame. Bobby honestly believes there is no one for him to play, no one worthy of him. I played him, and I can attest to that.”

Bobby Fischer never viewed the film, but rightly complained that it was improper to use his name and footage of him without his permission. Fischer never received any compensation from the movie and said he was swindled.

Look for the beautiful Laura Linney in a bit part.

The film runs 109 minutes and was shot in New York City, including Washington Square (where numerous scenes take place), and Toronto.

GRADE: B+

Review By: Wuchakk

Other Information:

Original Title Searching for Bobby Fischer
Release Date 1993-08-13
Release Year 1993

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min), 1 hr 33 min (93 min) (Ontario) (Canada)
Budget 0
Revenue 7266383
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Biography, Drama, Sport
Director Steven Zaillian
Writer Fred Waitzkin, Steven Zaillian
Actors Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, Max Pomeranc
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 11 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), Film House, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (dailies)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman EXR 100T 5248, EXR 500T 5296)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Searching for Bobby Fischer 1993 123movies
Original title Searching for Bobby Fischer
TMDb Rating 7.132 459 votes

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