Harry potter chess game scene

The movie scene, however, loses the suspense of the game. Perhaps we can conclude that the media format of movies will never tell the full story that a book portrays because of the time constraints of a two-hour film as well as the lack of expedient explanations to keep the tempo of the story moving.

The end result of using the movie format to explain the story is that it loses that extra deep and meaningful understanding, as well as missing parts of the tale. Rowling's original presentation in the book is recreated into another person's interpretation on the screen namely the director's interpretation therefore leaving the audience to fill in the missing gaps.

Although the chess scene was never detailed in the book, it needed a correct screen presence. Such well-constructed details can be reduced to nonsense after the editing process. This goes to show that in the movie, Rowling's presentation of the story is shortened and the plot and the sub-plots of the tale are also made into" mumbo-jumbo" for the members of the audience who have not read the book.

The essence of the book and the chess scene that was carefully constructed by IM Jeremy Silman lost the richness of the Harry Potter experience when converted for the movie audience. The chess moves designed for this story were meant to tell a hidden story of their own that symbolized the larger struggle, but was lost in editing to become "mumbo-jumbo". Although the final movie scene was appreciated for its dramatic action, it fails to portray chess strategy and to fully recognize Ron's intellect and so loses a chance at inspiring many Harry Potter fans to pick up chess to stimulate their minds.

Stories such as those told in the Harry Potter books cannot be replaced by the movie interpretation and there are always some gaps even in the book itself that would be lost or open to anyone's interpretation.

But what we see is that some gaps do not have to be lost, but it is rather a time of lost opportunities that could add more to the experience. The chess endgame in the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is one such missed opportunity. Vishvanathan Anand is one of the Indian best chess players of all the time. Read about his life story and the journey of becoming one of the World Chess Champions.

The rivalry between these two giants is not only a precious gem for the chess world, but also for the whole international sports society. King Walk is a scarce happening strategy, yet whenever it happens the game turns into a real bombshell. Among elite players King Walks are almost extinct, for this strategy is not only risky, but requires very immense preparation. Why teaching kids to play chess is so important? Because it raises their IQ, improves spatial skills, memory, and concentration, increases the creativity.

Find the best chess quotes from professional which will increase your motivation. If you are a huge Harry Potter fan, you must have remembered this scene. In the first movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , there's actually two chess scenes.

The first one, not so popular, was the one where wizard's chess has been introduced. It was Ron playing against Harry in the hall, while Hermione was calling the game ''barbarian'' since the pieces were not captured but destroyed. Anyways, we did not got much from that game, since it was really short scene but a good one.

After some time, the trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione went off, looking for the Philospher's stone. Facing many obstacles, they find themselves on the massive chess board, playing against self moving pieces.

They could not cross to the next room until they defeat the self moving pieces. That's when the fun starts. Ron , as the best of them three, decides that Hermione should be the rook, Harry should be the bishop.

Chess moves can be annotated with punctuation marks and other symbols. For example,! In writing the moves, it goes in this sequence: the move number, the abbreviation for White's move and then the abbreviation for Black's move. For example, Qg5, Nxd4 is the 25 th move and White's move was Queen goes to square g5 and Black's move was a Knight that took a piece on square d4.

Now we go onto IM Jeremy Silman's detailed description of how his plan for an exciting endgame for the Sorcerer's Stone movie was suppose to be. Throughout my life, I've watched movies and TV shows make a joke of real chess positions and real chess lingo. Now, after years of seething, I finally had a chance to do the job right When I read the first Potter book and was faced with the problem at hand: What position would I create that would justify Ron sacrificing himself?

Black has lost his Queen, but he has a strong attack against the White King. Black's immediate threat is Nh3 mate, so White begins with This eats a pawn thereby making the producer happy! She also threatens to capture Harry on a3! Note that I had the Queen make the capture because I wanted to do everything possible to turn this piece into something the young fans hated.

In other words, I wanted to turn the White Queen into the scene's villain. A nice little combination, since the sacrifice of the Rook adds to the Queen-hatred by the audience.

The real point, of course, is that it frees the c5-square for the Harry-Bishop. The Queen captures the Rook and once again threatens to end Harry's life! It looks bad for our heroes, but is this really true? Note that I created a logic problem here. Black can force a mate in two moves, but that would NOT be the correct solution. Can you figure out why? A faster mate is possible by Qxc5 Nh3 mate. Unfortunately, this calls for the sacrifice of HARRY, something that would end the quest immediately and is therefore completely unacceptable.

By sacrificing himself, Ron pulls the Queen away from its control over the c5-square. This is the only legal move. Suddenly White's King has no move, and the Queen is forced to step in the way in a vain effort to safe its Monarch. Bxe3 mate. I designed this to be an important moment. To me, the audience would get an enormous amount of emotional satisfaction with Harry's conquest of the hateful Queen. Unfortunately, movie dynamics once again turned a well thought out chess situation into mumbo-jumbo though it looked very energetic on the big screen.

The length of the film demanded some cuts, so the moves of this whole scene were more or less slashed to Be3 mate notice that Be3 doesn't capture the Queen I still feel that this was a real missed opportunity and would have enriched the whole on-screen scene immeasurably. Jeremy Silman's description of the endgame paints a very graphic and thrilling scene.