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Pawn Sacrifice
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During the Cold War, the man named Bobbie Fischer, a skillful chess player, finds himself facing two great powers. Bobbie began to enter the biggest challenge in the game he excelled in when he challenged the Soviet empire and the greatest Soviet player, Boris Spassky, at the 1972 World Chess Championships. It was a tournament that was a real history and a big challenge for Fischer.
During the Cold War, the man named Bobbie Fischer, a skillful chess player, finds himself facing two great powers. Bobbie began to enter the biggest challenge in the game he excelled in when he challenged the Soviet empire and the greatest Soviet player, Boris Spassky, at the 1972 World Chess Championships. It was a tournament that was a real history and a big challenge for Fischer.
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[Zwick] makes the historic matches come to life, such that even non-players will appreciate the gripping excitement and intellectual rigour to be found in the battle of wits that is chess.
September 24, 2015
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May 03, 2016
'Pawn Sacrifice' takes all of those tropes and cranks them up to 11, far past the barometers of either believable human behavior or credible filmmaking.
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Features a showboat performance from Tobey Maguire as the increasingly disturbed Fischer, along with a more composed one from Liev Schreiber as the taciturn Spassky.