Bobby Fischer

New York, années 80. Fred et Bonnie Waitzkin découvrent le talent exceptionnel de leur fils Josh pour les échecs. Ils le confient au professeur Pandolfini pour développer ses capacités. Stupéfait des aptitudes de l'enfant, il lui impose une discipline rigoureuse pour en faire un second Bobby Fischer, champion des Etats-Unis à 14 ans.

Short documentary that was published as an extra on the DVD of “Bobby Fisher Against the World”.

In this documentary viewers get to know Sæmi Rock Palsson´s struggle for the liberation of Bobby from prison in Japan and how he managed to provide his friend Icelandic citizenship. The story of an unlikely friendship between the notorious chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer imprisoned in a Japanese jail and his Icelandic bodyguard Sæmi Rock Palsson who fought the wrath of the United States government to free his friend The phone rang in the middle of the night, waking Saemi up. “There is a collect call for you Sir; from Bobby Fischer. Will you accept it?” His friend, the former world champion of chess, the American hero, was in trouble. Bobby Fischer called “collect” from a public phone in prison in Japan. Sæmundur did not hesitate one moment – this man must be rescued. It does not matter if he has not met his friend for three decades and only heard his voice over phone just few times all this time. His friend was in trouble and Sæmi is a friend indeed.

Depicts how Bobby Fischer tortuously considers his next move-hands gripping his head and eyes fastened to the board-as his 1972 World Chess Championship opponent, Boris Spassky, looks on.

L’histoire de Bobby Fischer, le prodige américain des échecs, qui à l’apogée de la guerre froide se retrouve pris entre le feu des deux superpuissances en défiant l’Empire Soviétique lors du match du siècle contre Boris Spassky. Son obsession de vaincre les Russes va peu à peu se transformer en une terrifiante lutte entre le génie et la folie de cet homme complexe qui n’a jamais cessé de fasciner le monde.

Le film décrit les personnalités et les stratégies de Bobby Fischer, Viktor Kortchnoï, Anatoli Karpov et d'autres champions d'échecs.

En 1958, Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, alors âgé de quatorze ans, stupéfia le monde des échecs en devenant le plus jeune Grand Maître de l’histoire, lançant ainsi une carrière qui allait faire de lui une légende. Pendant les quinze années qui suivirent, son incroyable ascension au sommet du jeu captiva le monde entier et permit aux échecs de connaître un essor international considérable. Puis, à l’apogée de sa réussite, Bobby Fischer prit tout le monde par surprise en décidant de disparaître des yeux du grand public.

An obsession with chess leads a boy to a nightmare where he realizes that his life must change.

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