Chess fever

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Movie
German title Chess fever
Original title Shakhmatnaja goryachka
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1925
length 28 minutes
Rod
Director Vsevolod Pudovkin ,

Nikolai Schpikowski ,

B. Schweschnikow
(assistant director)
script Nikolai Shpikovsky
production Meshrabpom-Rus
music Roger White (original music)
camera Anatoly Golovna
cut Vsevolod Pudovkin
occupation

Chess Fever ( Russian : Шахматная горячка, Schachmatnaja gorjatschka ) is a Soviet comedy film from 1925 in which some chess masters of the time - such as Carlos Torre Repetto , Rudolf Spielmann , Frank Marshall , Richard Réti , Ernst Grünfeld , Gotick Yates , and Solomon Alexander Ilyin-Schenewski - appear as extras. The recordings of the players at their chessboards were made during the Moscow tournament of 1925 . The then world champion José Raúl Capablanca played himself in a supporting role.

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The focus of the short film is a young, chess-obsessed man at the time of the chess tournament in Moscow. He devotes all his attention to chess, he wears socks in a checkerboard pattern , uses checked handkerchiefs and has countless pocket chessboards with him. His neglected companion therefore turns away from him and meets people playing chess on every corner on her way through Moscow. Her aversion to chess is reversed when she happens to meet the handsome José Raúl Capablanca and follows him to the venue for the international tournament. There she meets her companion again, and with her newfound enthusiasm for chess everything turns for the better.

Remarks

The chess enthusiasm that was emerging in the country at that time is presented in an artistically exaggerated, satirical form. However, goryachka could also be translated as haste or agitation , which may even better meet the artist's intention.

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