Chess Grandmaster Rates 7 Chess Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar reacts to seven memorable movie and TV scenes featuring chess games and rates them based on their technical accuracy.
She looks at various scenes from "The Queen's Gambit" (2020) and "From Russia with Love" (1963). Polgar rates the psychology of players in "X-Men" (2000), and "Queen of Katwe" (2016). She looks at the accuracy of opening moves in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (2001) and "Pawn Sacrifice" (2014). She also discusses the inaccuracy of TV chess boards, such as in "Friends" (2003).
Polgar was the women's world chess champion from 1996 to 1999. In 1991 she became the third woman to be awarded the title of grandmaster by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), and she has won 12 medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad. She is currently head of the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence at Webster University and has served as co-chair of the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess.
Find out more about the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence here: webster.edu/spice/
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Chess Grandmaster Rates 7 Chess Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It?

[@liyah6462]

i cant be the only one who watches chess movies/shows with no idea whats going on but still find them entertaining

[@prakash_77]

You're right :)

[@wildo4459]

You're not... I read the Queen's Gambit and the entire time I kept thinking to myself "This would be SO much better if I knew what was going on."

[@ruqaiyalokhand4343]

You ain't the only one. I thought I was until now

[@ForteExpresso]

Chess is the Game of life Opponent's moves are sometimes perdictable and sometimes surprising While setting a trap you get to control the weak player in order to win the game. To build a strong game you have to make the pawns strong by protecting them in chain.Which is the similar to how a Kingdom becomes strong. If you fell into the trap its like trusting the scammers,and if you understood the trap you won't fell for it. There are 1000s of life lessons in this Game, the series was rather busy in depicting emotions, anxiety etc. Hence it was made for non-chess players as well

[@wildo4459]

@@ForteExpresso it's not concept...it's the practice. And the terminology. All stuff a KZbin comment is gonna have a hard time teaching. I really do appreciate the effort though.

[@tomiwaaina5499]

"I played 326 at a time... 3 Is not so much compared to that" Ok keep slaying queen

[@redtailpunk]

did anyone else rewind that bit just to make sure they heard it right? that's unreal!

[@GamerGrovyle]

A game like that has to be played with each move just being the most optional one for that state of the board right? You can't remember every single board and plan ahead for every one.

[@rumblefish9]

Susan can play chess without seeing the board. She can play the game on the phone while walking around.

[@rumblefish9]

@@GamerGrovyle Chess players, including Susan, use a memory trick called chunking. I highly recommend watching 'NatGeo "My Brilliant Brain" featuring Susan Polgar'

[@TheNviate]

@@GamerGrovyle they are just that good. I once played in a 100 people simul against Ivan Ivanisevic, and the thing he seemed to have most problems with was the walking distance (which is actually quite a lot). He absolutely smashed it, had 98 wins and two draws I believe.

[@chess]

We see Susan and we click the like button. Simple as that.

[@brainkells]

Yo guys the guy who invented chess is here

[@kv7797]

Agreed. 3:30 her story earned it.

[@deepestfe4rs474]

Fun Fact: I once lost a chess match to my 5 year old brother

[@DarthAdii]

Yeah, I play your game.....

[@jalapinckney6512]

The search

[@RosaliyaMonis]

Came here with the sole intention to hear what she gotta say about Queen's Gambit!

[@anonymous8466]

Amen

[@claymccoy]

She could have done all the scenes from Queen's Gambit and I would have been fine with that.

[@padawanlizzy4517]

Thats literally the premise of the video

[@samuelsteiner3854]

Another amazing video about queen's gambit is Magnus Carlsen's (Aka the world chess champion) review, Gothamchess' game breakdown of it, and Hikaru Nakamura's reaction to the Carlsen review

[@rumblefish9]

Rosa M There is a video of Anya Taylor-Joy talking to Susan's younger sister, Judit.

[@EarthIsFlat456]

Grandmaster. That's a really cool title.

[@orlock20]

She is a woman grand master which has different requirements. Her sister Judit is a grand master and was ranked 8th in the world. Her other sister, Sofie is an international master.

[@joatanpereira4272]

@@orlock20 I think u mean international

[@orlock20]

@@joatanpereira4272 Thanks. I changed it.

[@BekeroParyin]

@@orlock20 She isn't a WGM she's a normal grandmaster with a rating of 2577. Not as high as Judit but still top 400.

[@brijesh6270]

tell me why i read it as grandmother😭😭

[@madnecessity]

I cant believe it. It's so nice to see her again. I first saw her on a National Geographic documentary Make Me a Genius. When I saw how popular Queen's Gambit had become, I instantly thought of her. I'm really glad to see her in the limelight again

[@rumblefish9]

They need to make a series about the Polgar sisters to be honest. Their story and chess education by their father is incredibly interesting

[@MartynStanleyAuthor]

The see-through glass chess set in X-Men is to avoid someone smuggling a piece of metal in a chess piece into Magneto's cell.

[@ArkaneStephanie]

Also a real set. I used to have one. Clear is white and fogged is black

[@MartynStanleyAuthor]

@@ArkaneStephanie yeah, I have one too! It kind of looks nice with the glass board and all, but I have to say a standard plastic or wooden competition set makes for a much better game of chess!🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TheChessGiant]

As a chess player, seeing scenes where the position is incorrect drives me crazy!

[@davicorosello1588]

Thats nothing. I hate when some "grandmaster" didnt see it coming and get "mated" in the next move for the sake of the "final surprise".

[@SomeKindOfMattias]

@@davicorosello1588 this! “Mate in 3” “whaaaaaaat”. Even many middling club players would see that coming. And missing mate in one? Jesus Christ :)k

[@-syahmi6924]

Kasparov help the Queen's gambit production then why there are mistakes?

[@claroruntal3357]

Yo!!! The Polgar sisters are legendary in the world of chess! If anyone is interested pick up, The Superhuman Mind. There's a chapter in there about how Susan and her sisters pretty much LIVED The Queen's Gambit... well only the chess stuff, lol.

[@qiliu6433]

loves how she looks at the Harry Potter scenes and be like, "these are just normal starting moves" so chill

[@jerrykitich3318]

All hail the great chess master Polgars - Susan, Sofia and Judit.

[@rumblefish9]

What's so interesting about all 3 is because they were not prodigies. They were the result of years of "experiment" by their father Lazlo Polgar. Lazlo was a developmental psychologist and be believed that "genius was made, not born".so he sought to prove his theory on his daughters. Susan picked chess on a whim and Lazlo devoted hours and hours of specialized training on his daughters. One key thing he focused on was that the girls loved the game. If they learned to love the game, they could do well. So Lazlo started to create stories about the pieces, made the training fun and enjoyable. It was tough for all 3 and they faced a lot of sexism but their father continually encouraged them. I honestly think their story is much more interesting than the series.

[@jerrykitich3318]

@@rumblefish9 I agree. It would make a much better movie than some of the chess movies out there - like The Grass Arena.

[@Smartsins]

They really go out of their way to get someone really knowledgeable, one of the most talented chess players in the world, not to mention her sister probably being the best female of all time. Well done insider!

[@genosypheus]

Came for "The Queen's Gambit", left with "Queen of Katwe", thanks!

[@MiniaMonteagudo]

i love that this man in the scene is all polite and chevalier and she's like "yeah no men in chess were actually little babies that lost their cool and started throwing stuff the moment a woman walked within a 20 m radius of them"

[@Ryan9210]

Yes she really did imply that every man she played against in the 70's, 80's, and 90's was a sexist asshole to her.

[@rumblefish9]

@@Ryan9210 But she's telling the truth. Men were not very welcoming to women chess players. In fact, male players at that time didn't think a woman's brain could handle the complexities of the game. There is one event where Susan had to be protected by her father and taken out from the hotel she was staying in because she had received death threats. It was THAT bad. Another incident was a GM telling her that a woman's place was in the kitchen or the bedroom only. Even Kasparov was extremely sexist to female players saying that women could never be good chess players because they were bad fighters. Kasparov has now done a 180 on his views and the reason for that change are the Polgar sisters - Susan, Sofia and Judit (Judit beat Kasparov at 24 yrs old and became the first woman to beat him).

[@jerrykitich3318]

@@Ryan9210 you're clearly never been at a tournament with 100 plus male participants and a woman merely enters the playing hall

[@jerrykitich3318]

Chess players in general are not happy losers

[@jyotiradityasatpathy3546]

@@Ryan9210 because they were.

[@napsugarannatoth5387]

I was waiting on one of the Polgar sisters to react to chess scenes ever since The Queen’s Gambit came out :)) All the love from Hungary 🇭🇺

[@eaz54]

So awesome to hear an expert discuss their expertise!

[@marcela.miranda]

OMG! 326 games SIMULTANEOUSLY?!! That's very impressive O.O

[@pulguinha682]

And more amazingly: it's not even the record. The record belongs to an Iranian GM who played 604 games with %80 wins, 16 draws and 8 losses (97.35%). Susan's simul was the world record at the time, and she won 309 games with 14 draws and 2 losses (96.93%).

[@G3NK5T42]

Even more amazing is GM Timur Gareyev's Guinness recognized world record of 48 games blindfolded simultaneously against 43 in person opponents and 5 online opponents. He won 35, 7 draws, and 6 losses. The matches lasted from 8:30am Saturday to 3:39am Sunday (19 hours 9 minutes). His opponents averaged around 1700 elo and with the highest being 2200.

[@mingming9604]

susan polgar is still a BEAST!! even in retirement

[@BrianBrown-vd1vv]

Absolutely fascinating. Make a movie about this ladies career.

[@r01d2]

"not allowed to psych opponent in official game" remind me my childhood reading, Scrooge McDuck was challenged in fictional chess-like game, he traveling to find one individual who multiple championship, to teach him how to master the game in short time, the twist was the champion never good in the game, he casually explaining he just intensely staring the opponent with scary look (almost hypnotizing), making his opponent always give up, later he help Scrooge with staring from behind his chair, and Scrooge is a champion.... this issue was wrong in so many level LOL

[@MarkYeung1]

Susan is a legend. One of my idol back in those days.

[@iustitiaseptuaginta]

Wow she analize phoebe and joey chess play for real 😁👏 .

[@wendigo53]

I think we all learned something today. People that make TV shows and movies sometimes don't play chess. (I learn a similar lesson from watching other videos in this series.)

[@DanaYi13]

Great video! The Grandmaster's intro was so badass, loved hearing from her!

[@Universe226]

I appreciate everything that you do:)!!!!

[@michaelklockner8539]

She's such an inspiration omg. Practically half of the world was gaisnt her playing and she pulled through and beat everyone😍. I mean wow.

[@ForteExpresso]

How was the whole world against her? Don't treat the competition as enemy but a challenge

[@hatred5125]

@@ryanpmcguire 💀

[@jrcadventures2905]

@@ryanpmcguire bro 😂😂💀

[@sitting_nut]

you are confusing her with her sister judith.

[@sitting_nut]

@jay frost no she didn't win world championship. but she was a top 10 player(not just top 10 women player) by rating, and did beat the best players in the world, including world champions, at tournament games.

[@kurt762]

to be fair, joey and phoebe acknowledged that they're playing chess their "own way" lol

[@natebetts9426]

I got a laugh out of her mentioning "we can watch games live on the internet" since it was basically the only moment the video feed went bad.

[@GoodkindASMR]

As a chess expert, you can't expect people who are non chess experts to set up the board correctly! What a pretty scene!

[@christopher32074]

There's even a short film made by Pixar called Geri's Game. An elderly man called Geri set up a chess game in the middle of the park and played by himself by taking off his glasses and playing as the opponent. Soon the white pieces are captured turn after turn leaving the king behind. To outsmart himself, Geri (with glasses on) faked his heart attack, rotated the board and played as the black team. Then he moved the black queen right next to the white king which ended the game.

[@arrowghost]

The finale episode of Queen's Gambit has Hikaru Nakamura stated as not everything is stated is in real life, but they do it for good TV. Draw when losing is a boogeyman's scare, and most GMs just give brief handshakes and then move on if anyone resigns or a draw is declared. And in tournaments, chess is also a quiet game like golf, noise can distract the players, especially when other matches are in play and the cheer can be disruptive.

[@dylanmahoney4889]

The Harry Potter game was actually constructed by an IM and it’s a very interesting tatctic for check mate

[@redfoxvoice]

Though sadly they edited out some important segments when creating the film so it no longer really shows how nicely the original position was constructed.

[@adamwu4565]

An interesting detail about that chess game was there was more than one way to win in the final position. One way would have involved sacrificing the piece Harry was playing as, and the other involved sacrificing the piece Ron was playing as. And Ron chose to sacrifice himself. So the chess game actually provides additional characterization for Ron.

[@justjihyo3293]

I CLICKED ON THE VIDEO BECAUSE I READ CHESS AS CHEESE-

[@raleighkuz.6576]

Lmao cheese grandmasters

[@justjihyo3293]

@@raleighkuz.6576 professionals in cheese is what my brain thought of(´-﹏-`；)

[@raleighkuz.6576]

@@justjihyo3293 I mean I would've clicked if I saw that title 😌

[@claymccoy]

I'm shocked they didn't do the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer."

[@emilymcmurphy1590]

Bob has enough. He doesn't need anymore. Also, he was thoroughly sexist and did not believe women were capable of being professional chess players. Wouldn't fit with the theme to include him.

[@claymccoy]

@@emilymcmurphy1590 Apparently, you never saw the movie. Bobby Fischer is not in it. It's about child chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin.

[@emilymcmurphy1590]

@@claymccoy Fair.

[@jerrykitich3318]

@@claymccoy actually they do show footage of the real Bobby Fischer in the movie and discuss his story. It was a key selling point of the movie.

[@krixpop]

well... I hope that your shocking went away , but if is still persisting you should definitively see a doctor ! btw , did it hurt ?

[@stephencivic1989]

I love this clip. While I am no means a pro, I have played chess enough to know about the psychological aspect of the game. And it is thrilling, I love playing this game. I wish they would've covered the Game of Shadows scene as well, because that scene depicted a style of chess not seen in the modern world all that often. And I also think that chess moves need to be clearly seen an setup in films so that people can follow very easily. Case in point The Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone where you can't really see all the pieces or exact positions.

[@leoperidot482]

I can't believe some of the older movies with chess were overlooked. CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR. CHESS FEVER. THE DARK HORSE. FIVE FINGERS. FRESH. GROSSMEYSTER. INDEPENDENCE DAY. IVORY TOWER. KNIGHT MOVES. KNIGHTS OF THE SOUTH BRONX. MAGNUM PI. WHO IS DON LUIS HIGGINS... SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER. THE SEVENTH SEAL.

[@Taospark]

13:58 Something the scene shows and is later said by Magneto in the next movie is that he willing to sacrifice his pawns for his goal while Xavier plays more conservatively to keep his pieces alive rather than go for an early kill.

[@jiaqiniu2872]

Susan was a coach at my college Texas Tech. She was pretty cool and we even played a few times. She won all of them lol. But I learned a bunch

[@Craftiummah123]

this game is very technical and also only plat when you have a lot of time.,Stay connected.

[@Uenostation54]

Damn, I feel like this is one of the most qualified guests they've had for one of these. How many gold medals and championships?!

[@williamrobert9898]

Winning the women’s world championship 4 times is incredible but she does have an even crazier accomplishment which is the fact that she is only 1 of 3 players in Chess history to win the world Rapid and the world Blitz championships in the same year, the other 2 being Anna Muzychuk and the World number 1 Magnus Carlsen

[@kimberlyte3178]

So cool!

[@jerichohill487]

Was really hoping they would do searching for Bobby Fisher from the 90s

[@ragnos28]

Watching this...remembering I did not play in a long while...started a game with Isabel bot...made 5 mistakes and 1 blunder..still got 3 crown win...got back to the video:P

[@StacyInLove1]

You are wonderful!

[@nicvoid]

She is awesome

[@GoodkindASMR]

I enjoyed this video. In the last scene, two people were playing chess and the corner square was black. Susan said that the corner square was supposed to be white. That means the board is offcially set up incorrectly, but this scene can still be very realistic because maybe the people (who are not chess experts) in the video don''t even know how to set up the board correctly. A lot of people who are non chess experts don't know how to set up a chess board properly, that means the chess scence is realistic! Hope this makes sense! I think if there is a chess board in a commercial, then the board should be set up correctly.

[@MortimerZabi]

Dang. The Polgar Sisters are legends.

[@jugglingbeast]

Susan is a legend just for breaking the chess men's world. Proud to be hungarian along with GM Benko (RIP) and GM Richárd Rapport.

[@justinreilly6619]

An excellent post, I really enjoyed Susan's analysis of these movie scenes. 👌

[@alexkekesi8153]

Her name is Polgár Zsuzsa, and she is from Hungary. Hajrá magyarok ❤️

[@scottshinbaum1772]

I would have loved to hear her thoughts on the end of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

[@edmontonboy99]

A five-minute game?

[@NashGamingIN]

Wanted to hear the comments about Queen's Gambit from her.

[@wkcia]

Love the diss at Walter Browne :D Cos it sure wasn’t Sam Reshevsky

[@mikasa2965]

She played chess against 326 people simultaneously!?!

[@kbempaah2245]

That’s what I’m saying people aren’t paying attention to what she’s saying, that’s easily the most impressive statement made in the whole video. They’re just excited that a grandmaster is reacting to their favorite show. I wonder if it was speed Chess or not, the more impressive

[@marcela.miranda]

It's indeed extraordinary

[@davicorosello1588]

@@marcela.miranda actually its not, you can do it too. Is just a big long table with many boards, and the player just go moving on one board at the time. Tecnically is what you do on chess sites playing 50 dudes in mail chess mode. More difficult is playing all these simultanepus games with clock, because you need to move quicker, lkterrally, your feets and hands 🤣 Whats really a genious thing to do is to play a blindfold match, in wich you play without looking at the board. All the match is in your head. Now, imagine playing simoultaneous blindfold chess with 48 other people. Thats it, this is the extraordinary among extraordinary.

[@Yggdrasil42]

@@davicorosello1588 Lets not belittle it. Playing 326 games well is not an easy feat.

[@chandraputra2076]

@@davicorosello1588 playing chess blindfolded itself is impossible without knocking over the pieces, no matter how good you are. The spaces between the pieces are probably only 1-2 cm, and how can you tell what the opponent is doing. Well I can't blame you if it's only your imagination, but don't start thinking playing 326 games simultaneously is easy.

[@charlie15627]

One of my favorite things to do was simply to smile, when my opponent starts to make a move that I really do not want them to make. Most of the time it even works and gets them to make a different move. As long as they noticed. Psychology really does play a big part in chess.

[@lainecallahan8977]

You didn’t have her react to Holmes vs Moriarty from game of shadows??

[@Aurich88]

Oh shit, now I feel that loss too. "Discover check. Incidentally, mate."

[@OriginalPiMan]

Quite interesting. Probably more generous with the scores than I would have expected though.

[@nkwyek275]

3:48 Bruh, the division get wider, I myself stopped right there. Never come back. Thank you for the explaination regardless.

[@TehLazerPikle]

Literally a queen of chess

[@stephenryan8492]

This show is like, in a way, based on her.

[@ploopy8780]

Its based on a book but I see what you're saying

[@MrVvulf]

Except that would mean the character Beth Harmon has a sister hidden off screen who is even better at chess than she is. Judit (Susan's sister) is the only woman to ever be rated over 2700, and is widely regarded as the greatest female chess player of all time.

[@stephenryan8492]

@@MrVvulf that’s actually pretty interesting, thanks for the info!

[@rumblefish9]

@@stephenryan8492 All 3 Polgar sisters were very impressive. Sofia, while not as good as her sisters, has one of the greatest tournament results in history (Sack of Rome). All this started because of their father's experiment. Lazlo Polgar was a psychologist who believed that "genius was made, not born" so he set out to prove his theory on his daughters. Absolutely fascinating story. Watch 'NatGeo "My Brilliant Brain" featuring Susan Polgar'

[@albertarbelo]

The episode of "Bones" where Sweets plays chess most of the show should have been included.

[@PGxNIBBLESx18]

I have no idea what’s going on I’m chess but damn do I respect the intelligence and memory to be that good

[@BrokenNoah]

1:54 ...some look at the ceiling Hikaru has entered the chat

[@adaptorperish1322]

Breaking a (gender) barrier is an amazing achievement on its own.

[@joshuahietala5174]

Sacrificed the queen, which is very unusual Carlsen: Observe

[@AgarioGameplays]

More like Tal

[@joshuahietala5174]

@@AgarioGameplays Tal is also a good example

[@shafqatishan437]

@@joshuahietala5174 good example? He's the biggest example

[@bravehome4276]

Would have been interesting to see her commentary on Searching for Bobby Fischer.

[@ClockMonsterLA]

Most of these depictions should probably lose a point just for the speed with which the games are being played. Regular play--especially in non-speed tournaments--does not happen at blitz speed, as is almost always the case in movies and on tv.

[@michaelbauers8800]

Yeah, but classical time control chess, for example, can easily go for over five hours. So you have to speed it up. I think anyone who knows chess, knows there's a wide spectrum of time controls. People who don't know chess, probably don't think too much about what's going on. People are frequently uneducated about stuff. For example, for decades I have tried to explain to people about Minnesota Fats. The movie the Hustler came out, then Ralph Wanderone claimed HE was the real Minnesota Fats, and he wasn't even from Minnesota. Then he goes on TV, Wide World of Sports, and gets his clock cleaned by a real pool champion, Mosconi. Did people then realized Fats was conning everyone? No. A lot of people who know little about the history of pool, and who were generally around in the era where people knew about Fats, think Fats was some pool legend...legend in his own mind, and yeah, he did have name recognition. But as a pool player, not world class.

[@zetacrucis681]

The ridiculous staring contests between opponents in The Queen's Gambit totally ruined any illusion of realism for me.

[@michaelbauers8800]

I have seen a game where someone lost a minor piece in the first 10 moves ( lost, not sacced,) and they resigned. Probably partly in disgust. But it's probably hard to win a knight or bishop down, when there's no compensation.

[@LincolnClay98]

I LOVE CHESS!

[@evilrslade]

Her Sister Judit had a rating of 2735, which would still put her in the Top 20 Men in 2021....

[@johnstevenson9956]

Siskel and Ebert once said that you didn't have to know anything about chess to enjoy "Searching For Bobby Fischer". In fact, it doesn't help at all! You never get a good look at anything they're doing.

[@saltyinternetguy626]

She definitely meant Kasparov in all her examples of bad sportsmanship😂😂😂😂

[@rumblefish9]

You mean that time Kasparov cheated on Judit Polgar? lol

[@tomiwaaina5499]

I completely forgot queen of katwe was about chess lol

[@barbedwings]

Holy crap this woman is insanely talented. Love to see real experts talking.

[@krixpop]

She is a Polgar sister ! Real wonders in chess history !

[@AdityaKumar-ez4ey]

The top player she refers to at 3:40 was Kasparov. He was caught cheating because he was losing to a 14 yr old girl who happens to be Susans sister, Judit.

[@paulgotik]

I just researched and found out that she was 17 not 14 and the cheating was moving back a piece. It's still pretty bad but your comment is kinda disingenuous.

[@juliahenriques210]

@@paulgotik Then again, Kasparov is renowned for being a jerk. And moving back a piece is the first thing you teach children not to do when they're learning, so... yeah. It's like a flying kick at the runner to stop a touchdown. Getting her age wrong is a minor offence in comparison.

[@rumblefish9]

@@paulgotik honest mistake with the ages. But other than that, pretty spot on. Kasparov did cheat and Judit was too intimidated to bring it up

[@biggooders3001]

Can you get one of the real life mindhuters investigators on here to review mindhunters

[@wo1fpaq724]

I wonder if the this is the one where they get the thumbs down was an intentional play on Friends episode naming.

[@allynnwalker]

Me binge watches all of queens gambit also me only uses queen gambit and never uses anything else

[@SomeKindOfMattias]

I actually end all my winning games by tipping THE TABLE. Have to show who’s alpha

[@ed299]

Ew

[@f_imposter4715]

If you have to show who's the alpha, you're not alpha.

[@Olzme]

More like show who's more mature...

[@EduardoWalcacer]

I was really expecting the X-Files to show up in the video.

[@A_MadihaShaikh]

Oh lordy, you can get pieces back too! I just found out.

[@factsarefacts372]

11:35 yea coughing doesnt disturb them

[@drednaught187]

@13:50 In the X-Men scene, Professor Xavier captures Magneto’s knight with an illegal pawn move.

[@ChihiroOh]

pawns can capture diagonally right? So why is it illegal?

[@drednaught187]

@@ChihiroOh To me...it looks like the pawn is directly in front of the knight, rather than on its diagonal.

[@ChihiroOh]

@@drednaught187 Its not, cause then it would start from the lighter square. And I'm pretty sure this woman would have noticed it, haha.

[@samkirrin9776]

I cant even do 2 things at once but she can play 326 games at once😂

[@raraajeng3311]

captures captures captures captures captures captures

[@henrikwannheden7114]

Who would've thought that Joey vs Phoebe wasn't a technically correct game? :) It'd be awesome if it had though. With Lisa Kudrow's IQ being quite high, I'd think that she'd be a very proficient chess player, but then again that doesn't guarantee that she even know how to play.

[@sheboyganshovel5920]

Considering she used a sequence of checkers capturing moves, I'd say she's not even trying to play. ;)

[@TinTinBx]

Do it girl !

[@edwardshalash2607]

How come she didn't analyze the scenes from Revolver ... The movie is packed with chess scenes and is about a master of chess and a con master

[@earlygrayy]

i literally just got into chess, i installed some apps... mainly bc people tell me i'm a good strategist and shit, so i wanted to see if i ever become good at chess

[@timothyheimbach3260]

A lot of early chess is memorization.

[@IzzyKawaiichi]

How y'all gonna do Geri dirty like this leaving him out. Shame on you. That game is iconic.

[@DavidHorwitz99]

Endeavour S04E01 "Game" (TV, 8 January 2017) "Whilst Professor Amory unveils his chess-playing computer Jason and crime novelist Kent Finn signs copies of his latest book, the body of Dr Nielsen, a member of the computer team, is dragged from the river and some time later a series of drownings is discovered at the local baths. The pattern of the murders suggests a serial killer with a knowledge of chess moves, and Morse finds a link between one of the victims and another member of Amory's team with a further possible connection to Finn. However, Morse deduces, with some help from Jason, that the culprit is not a random killer but one seeking vengeance on those he believed wronged him in the past. At the same time, Morse feels unable to comfort Thursday and his wife after their daughter Joan mysteriously left them." (FYI July, 1967)

[@vidhusrivarenya5138]

Agadmator would be good at this

[@majinsole8554]

It’s hard to fathom the way her brain works. ~_~

[@bolinvolovan3060]

12:42 What’s the point of playing against Professor Xavier, he actually reads minds. 14:45 Come on, it’s Phoebe and Joey, can’t say it’s an imprecision, it’s just that it’s Phoebe and Joey.

[@fuzalinosshadisk1248]

Professor X does not read Magneto's mind, he never does

[@swordsman1137]

I expecting Judit, but Polgar sister are always queens of chess

[@jamesgarrett8833]

For a future video, do former school teacher rates teacher school scenes

[@katielady873]

It's interesting to hear about sexism in such small communities like chess grandmasters. There should be a documentary about that.

[@sitting_nut]

she exaggerates that as well as her achievements . it was her sister judith who was a real threat at the top of open chess ( as opposed to women's chess) . susan never reached top level in open tournaments , so objections to her presence at an elite tournament probably was not due to sexism alone.

[@samkirrin9776]

@@sitting_nut swiping someone's pieces off of a board seems pretty sexist.

[@sitting_nut]

​@@samkirrin9776 if you don't know why, and there are many possible valid reasons, its merely unforgivably rude.

[@BekeroParyin]

@@sitting_nut While you're partially right I think you're downplaying her achievements a little bit too much. She's one of the first women to receive the grandmaster title and almost 2600 rated

[@sitting_nut]

@@BekeroParyin i didn't "downplay " her achievements at any point here. what i said here are factually true. she, unliek here sister, never reached top level in open tournaments , and she was never a real threat at the top of open chess ( as opposed to women's chess). while she was one of the 1st woman grandmasters, that is once again an achievement in comparison to other women , since in 1991 there were hundreds of active grandmasters. her sister, in comparison , got in to top 10 of active players and was real threat at top of chess.

[@minorchord]

Insider should start telling people to record with their phones instead of their webcam, it's not the first time that the quality is bad :/

[@r01d2]

I thought I was too stupid about clear and white chess piece used by Prof X, if I using that chess how I differentiate my own piece..... and the Grand Master herself said it was impractical LOL