"You've lost, you just don't know it". Love that line, especially coming from a kid

Wonderful family movie. "Bobby Fischer emerged from seclusion to challenge his old rival, Boris Spassky... After winning, he promptly disappeared again." Loved those lines!

"TAKE THE DRAW!!" Great line - perfect delivery!!

One of the Best endings ever. I wish more adults would learn these lessons.

That final scene is so cute.

I'm getting to like this movie more than the queen's gambit. So heartwarming

Wonderful movie and great performance by the kid . . .

In real life Josh became an International Master as an adult rather than a Grandmaster. He never reached the rank that his teacher held. He currently is an author and teaches BJJ. Chess is a strange world.

This is a fantastic movie when he tells his dad he tried to give him a way out and he tells him he knows he did and they hug that is a very touching moment

I love this scene!!

The actor playing Josh's(Max's) opponent, Michael Nirenberg, passed away 5 years later of cancer. How incredibly sad.

The boy resigns by laying his king flat upon the board. Nice touch in this scene as this is a sign of respect toward Josh. Thanks for posting! Seen many versions of this ending on You- tube, but they are so choppy! ⬛⬜♔ ♕ ♗ ♘ ♙ ♚ ♛ ♝ ♞ ♟

"You have lost.. You just dont know it" Owned!

The most honorable kid I ever seen.

I've been looking for this ending!

Great ending.

Just now recognized the man at the end from criminal minds.

This movie takes me back to when my chess career started. My chess teacher passed away a few years ago. This type of film brings back memories of her, and how she taught me the game of chess. I've been playing for almost 30 years now Thank you to my chess coach!! Rest in peace

Great movie, and great scene.

EPIC slow roll at 1:51 by Josh on that check. So, so owned.

Overall, this was actually a very relaxing movie. I liked it.

You also have to teach that you don't always win, you also have to teach how to lose and Josh's rival was not taught that

"TAKE THE JWAAAh!"

Ego Vs. Higher Self

_"Look deep, Josh, it's there. It's twelve moves away but it's there. You've got him. Take his pawn with your pawn. G takes f6, forking his bishop and rook. Don't take back with your bishop, you'll need that to guard e7. He'll take back, either with his bishop or his night. When he does - this is the hard part - sacrifice your rook: capture him on f6 and get him to check. King has to take your rook, he takes f6. Give him the knight to check e7, forking his king and his rook. He'll move to safety; King f5. Take his rook with your knight. He'll take back with his king and you've got him. Don't move until you see it....Don't move until you see it....Don't move until you see it.... "_

Last dialogue in in movie: you’re a much stronger player than I was at your age. Having just won a big match, Josh focuses on encouraging someone who lost

I'm not really aware, Awnner, that Bobby Fischer shows up, at all, in this film, except in documentary footage. The movie's more about his inspiration to Josh than it is a portrait of Bobby. Though it does tell Bobby's story through Josh's eyes. It is likely a fairly romantic telling of Josh's story, though, I do agree.

"Searching for Bobby Fischer" 100% at Rotten Tomatoes!

CHESS 💙amazing movie

@FFassassin71 He offered him a draw once. It was refused. Josh did precisely what he should have done - followed through for the win. It wasn;t Josh's job to offer mercy a second time. Also - he could have promoted his pawn to a bishop instead of a queen and drawn the game. But that would be unsportsmanlike in the extreme.

well... after analyzing in this position King takes knight was a blunder white could have drawn by pushing his pawn forward

After winning he promptly disappeared again... Back to Argentina to host his anit-jewish radio show.

Yes. Frm the position after Nxe5 here's probably the best possibility: 1.h5 Nf7 2.Kg6 Ne5+ (or Nh8+) 3.Kf5 a5 4.h6 Nf7 (4...a4 5.Kg6 Nh8+ =) 5.h7 Nh8 6.Kf6 a4 7.Kg7 a3 (a knight move loses instantly) and both sides will be dead even. If you play it out, it works. QED, good sir.

I saw that missed draw, too, and Larry Evans confirms it (see Wiki article about the movie or read Chess Life, October 1995).

Jonathan Poe was actually based on Jeff Sarwer, who ended up playing Waitzkin to a draw.

@sdegroot1 they drew the first game, the rematch Josh won. Some chess experts have analyzed this game played for the movie, written by the actual Josh and his teacher, and found that there actually WAS a way Jonathon could have won if he had moved a different piece earlier on.

People seem to think you can't admire someones skill and brilliance in one area if you don't respect them in another. Bobby Fisher clearly had a lot of problems and wasn't a saint by any means. However he was the most brilliant mind in the history of chess.

Because that is not how it is done. One is expected to consider the offer and to work out on ones own whether to accept or not. It was not up to Josh to prove that he would win. It was up to Jonathan to figure THAT out for himself. Josh gave him that chance - and Jonathan let ego and overconfidence make his decision for him - instead of acknowledging Josh's possible superior chess skills and searching the position himself.

favorite movie as a child 5 stars for HD

i have been in this situation also one time.. found it out accidentally :)

@SSgtParmer When was the last time someone did that for you? Not in a training game?

Great. I did.

"He's offering him a draw." "I'm offering you a draw." Lol. that's honestly something you'd see in a comedy.

This is my most favorite scene!! Josh pwn's Jonathan Poe!

this isn't even a sound position, but i love this movie as a chess fan

Evidence - Searching 4 Bobby Fisher.

owned!

I Love it's ending. Is it Oscar winning?

@PeterFormaini What I'm saying is that POE shouldn't have captured the knight during that final sequence. Then he would have a drawn game.

I'm feeling bad for Morgan right now.

Best chess ♟ movie

@CanadaMMA Hardly. He stoppes playing after he became World Champion. Real great players like Lasker, Aljechin, Botwinnik, Karpov or Kasparov did not hide in fear after winning the title. He lost any claim to be a great player when he chose not to be a player. All the above mentioned outclassed him and many others like Spassky, Smyslow, Euwe, Capablance or Petrosjan matched him by winning the title. If only Tal were in good health, Fischer would not have even become WC.

@f1n3553 joshua said "fuck yo couch!"

my teacher showed us this part of the movie before we took our test =/

@SSgtParmer Never. Most of my opponents hate me. :wtc:

I come to like playing chess after watching this movie.

I wish he would have played Kasparov

good game

Who Is The Dymaic Character in this movie ?

Why did they use Bobby’s name?

Love how Josh just slams the opponet's queen! Suck on that kid! lol

0:13 "What that sthupposed mean?"

i know it doesn't have to like the actual game. I m just saying that there was no promotion skewer. I still love the one part of the movie were real pandolfinni is in it and he says young fischer when josh is at the park. Also real josh and real vinny are in the movie in part 9

in real life josh opponent rejected the draw, but they drawed..making both of them champions

He should have shook his hand for the draw instead of resigning after the queen had him checked!

Ironically, if white didn't take the knight, he could have indeed drawn.

@iDraw3G "your moron" Listen. There is more than that Bobby has to say. He is not alone.

Do tournament players also lose when their king is the last piece standing?

Um.....no. If POE had NOT captured the knight, Josh could have then moved the knight and exchanged it for POE's lone remaining pawn - then queened his OWN pawn and won the game easily. POE HAD to take the knight after the check and loss of his rook - to NOT take it would have mean a certain loss - Josh using the knight to stop POEs final pawn.

White could have drawn the game after all.

Are you referring to my post Arsinc? That's not the point of it. They should have place Black's King on the back rank so white had some chance to win at the end. A simple oversight but neither of the kids should be sad at 1rst and 2nd place.

only thing i dont like is you can tell jonathan could have won. he made one very big mistake. but its such a powerful scene, i forgive it

Also Black should have had his King on e1, d1, or f1 so there's some chance the white queen could skewer black's king and queen but in the movie here it was white who got skewered. But how significant our these details?

PAWNED!

@crowlclanftw LOL trolled

There was no way for white to force a win in that position. If the black queen would have promoted on anything but the rook files it's still drawn. KQ vs. KQ.

"check" "FUUUU---!!"

whites king was in the middle square... between blacks pawn and whites queen. Therefore when the black pawn was promoted, whites king was in check forcing him to move and his queen was now in danger

a lot of plot holes so what, this movie is almost like a period piece now when you consider the cinema of the early 90's "they don't make em like they yous to" syndrome-remember cats suspension of disbelieve!

You know, Josh could have promoted his pawn to a bishop to give him a way out.

If I were the white player, I would have played it out. Sure, he's down to a lost Queen and King vs. King, but black has only about a minute or so left on his clock. Who knows? Maybe he could have won on time.

@xyPERSON i heard he died, i didn't know he was all those other things tho.. kinda sad how his life ended up turning out..

whatever happened to these actors? lol... I think the josh dude was in a few other movies but then they like disappeared ... like bobby fischer o.o

@The123choji ewww you said "drawed"

well for one thing 1) k he can beat me in chess. awesome i give a hoot. 2) hate is wrong least i believe people teach you that when youre little 3) i never made any comment to al qaeda or hitler you just asssumed that so youre the typical one not me 4) i dont feel prejudice to everyone and i certainly dont make a habit of announcing it to the world good day to you. friend

Its so interesting how the real Bobby Fischer actually hated this movie.

Terrific movie......... Yah right about Fischer, too bad he ended up as a nutcase.

4:51 me talking to my friend after he hits up 10 girls in middle school

this didn't even happen. In the real game there was no taking of each other's queen. There was a sacrifice of queen's and in the end Josh sets up a promotion skewer. Which didn't happen. In the real game they drawed which was all josh needed to win the championship. Also if josh wanted to draw he should've promoted to a bishop which is draw by insufficient material LOL.

I’m no grandmaster but even I could have seen that coming a mile away. Good movie tho.

What are the odds a real game ends up in the exact position taught in a book? Hm. This is worse than getting a royal flush at the end of a poker movie.