Favorite chess sequences in movies and TV

Very eerie scene -:]
The Seventh Seal (1957) – Ingmar Bergman

A medieval knight challenges Death to a chess match, symbolizing humanity’s struggle against mortality. This scene, inspired by a 1480s painting, is one of the most famous in film history and has influenced countless later works

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The chess lesson in The Wire is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8lyda_ZkLQ

@fwh2026 said ^

Lawrence Fishburne as the coach in "Searching for Bobby Fischer"; "use the force, kid, use the force. the force will be with you" LOL

Hah! This is what Google AI has to say about this movie...

"Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993): The park speed-chess scenes and the emotional final tournament matches accurately feature real, high-level chess combinations and grandmaster positions."

@fwh2026 said ^

Then their was that legendary Brut commercial in the aftermath of Fischer-Spassky, 1972. AFAIK, it was only shown once. I saw it, as did others. That sequence cannnot be found. In the commercial, the voices were different, and the scene was obviously staged. The final scene, which featured "Fischer" (sic?) seated alone at the board, was a remarkable likeness, that matched a real photograph of Fisc...

Here's how it went down. The first line of the AI for Brut commercials reads "Brut commercials are famous for classic old-school campaigns, high-profile celebrity endorsements, and rugged or humorous takes on masculinity." Usually they featured some star receiving a one-handed double-slap across both cheeks, who would then respond "Thanks I needed that":

The commercial features Spassky`and Fischer look-alikes seated at a chess-table ,on a stage much like in the actual match. Suddenly Spassky sniffs and wrinkles his nose and says "What's that smell?" Fischer replies, in a commanding voice, "It's called Brut!" Spassky mumbles something and smiles, then makes a move. Fischer's hand flashes out with a move. CHECKMATE! Then he stands up and gives Spassky a double-slap across the cheeks, volume obviously enhanced, and Spassky says "Thanks, I needed that". The final scene looked very much like a photograph I recall seeing, or maybe TV footage, from a ways back in the hall and above. from after the match, of Fischer seated alone at the table, leaning back in his chair, with left elbow on the armrest and hand supporting his head.

Interesting to note that Bill Wall himself has no mention of this on his exhaustive website, last time I checked.

edit: Yah, Fischer must have flipped and demanded it be destroyed. Maybe someone here can dig up something other than public discussion. Actual evidence. No mention of it on the Brut website that I can see.

A game of chess sparks a sensual encounter between Thomas Crown and Vicki Anderson in "The Thomas Crown Affair"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPa4BP6EvI

McQueen and Dunaway as a screen couple, the beauty and intensity of chess combined in one scene - the producers should have made an entire movie out of it :)

Richie and Eddie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f64qJorLrY

@BarlimanOfBree said ^

The chess lesson in The Wire is a classic

This scene is a really fine example of the poetic realism that makes "The Wire" one of the best shows in TV history.

"The pawns man in the game they get capped quick" - none of these three characters will make it to the end of the series.

Favorite chess sequences in movies and TV

From French and German tv Arte and the series "Rematch" about Kasparov vs Deep Blue my favourite scenes are Deep Blue Running the MIST Test. Futrther info for example here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minimum_intelligent_signal_test&oldid=1339728381

Why "favourite chess sequence"?
It deliberately shows pure nonsense and reveals the non-existent accuracy (pun intended) of the series.

This MIST Test is, according to Wikipedia, 80,000 yes/no questions in a style like this:
Is Earth a planet?
Was Abraham Lincoln once President of the United States?
Is the sun bigger than my foot?
Do people sometimes lie?

A computer that is tested against it will possibly have some program to internally represent factual knowledge but it could be very much easier than a current "chatbot-style" Large Language Model with the pretty small and finite dataset needed to answer the MIST test questions.
However, Deep Blue had the single purpose of playing chess (and possibly doing some psycho tricks against a world champion of chess) with absolutely no general knowledge or reasoning concerning arbitrary facts that computer science people sometimes call "world knowledge".
The fictionalized tv show made it all a wild mix of AI fiction, the IBM Watson project ("quiz show knowledge computer") and the single purpose chess computer IBM Deep Blue.

My second personal Golden Raspberry Award for bad movie chess and bad tv chess goes to the final chess game in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone.
Late International Master Jeremy Silman provided a pretty nice composed chess sequence to the crew of the movie, but the editing of the movie destroyed all meaningful chess in the movie and the book does not even contain any valid description of any chess move at all.
I already put the following link into the Lichess forums several times, but worth it:
The Actual Chess Endgame in the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Movie
https://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/features/essays/issue26/chessgameinsorcerersstone/