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Jan-02-16
 | | Sally Simpson: Just watch the chess bit in the 'From Russia with Love' film. Kronsteen (White) is given a message during the game after he played 22. NxB(Nf7-e5)+ 
click for larger viewThe message reads: 'You are required at once."
Later on tonight I'll use my John Bull Spy De-Coding Set (£2.99 from E-SPY + P & P) and expect to discover the mating follow up moves are hidden within that message. So Kronsteen cheated (and he was a member of Spectre not SMERSH.) The chess bit from the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdC... |
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Jan-02-16
 | | offramp: Sally Simpson, have you got that film position right? |
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| Jan-02-16 | | john barleycorn: <offramp: Sally Simpson, have you got that film position right?> Dr. NO. |
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Jan-02-16
| | Sally Simpson: No, I took it from here. The film removed a couple of pawns because they thought chess games were copyright. Deciphered message reads:
"Your blueberry yoghurt is on it's way" |
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| Jan-20-16 | | Joker2048: In my opinion, spassky absolutely being one of the top 5 player of all time.
His skill and his technic is incredible.
I love the way he play and he is great... |
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| Feb-29-16 | | SpiritedReposte: Don't know what kind of propaganda this is. But the BLUEBIRD game is the bluebird game not SMERSH(?) |
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| Feb-29-16 | | dannymay: Sally Simpson Are you sure about that SPECTRE vs. SMERSH point? I was pretty sure Kronsteen was a SMERSH operative. SMERSH was the Soviet revenge machine that went after defectors, etc. SPECTRE was an international criminal cartel, apolitical and operating purely for profit. |
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Feb-29-16
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Danny,
"Kronsteen, played by Vladek Sheybal, was the head of planning for SPECTRE in From Russia with Love (1963)." Site: James Bond Character - Kronsteen.
http://www.007james.com/characters/... |
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| Feb-29-16 | | luftforlife: Cf. Reshevsky vs Botvinnik, 1955, sc. Reshevsky vs Botvinnik, 1955 (link to my kibitz; trying to avoid a duplicate posting here). The fictional game described in brevis fashion in Ian Fleming's James Bond thriller From Russia With Love differs from the fictional game depicted somewhat more fulsomely in the motion picture From Russia With Love. The above-cited game was the basis for the game in the novel; this game is the basis for the game in the picture. In the novel, the fictional villain and three-time "Champion of Moscow" Kronsteen is a SMERSH operative, run by the real-life Chief of SMERSH, General Grubozaboyschikov. In the picture, Kronsteen is a high-ranking agent of SPECTRE, a fictional terrorist organization headed by the inimitable arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Hope that helps!
Best to all, ~ lufty |
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Feb-29-16
| | Sally Simpson: So he is/was a Spectre/Smerch double agent.
What about McAdams (Kronsteen opponent) was he a MI5/FB1/CIA/CSIS agent? |
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Apr-05-16
 | | posoo: OOOOOOOOOOOi know da feelng! I bet when spassky played da moove it was ALL HE COULD DO to keep from SHAKING wif joy! |
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Oct-20-16
 | | diagonal: <Appropriately our hero’s surname in reality (Spassky) has 007 letters. His first name (Boris) is an anagram of "orbis", Latin for "globe", and indeed he was going on to be the World Chess Champion.> The game chosen by the Bond film producers, was that magical masterpieces reminiscent of Boris Spassky's beautiful 23-move victory playing the King’s Gambit against David Bronstein at Leningrad in 1960 in the sixteenth round of the 27th USSR Championship held at the Chigorin Chess Club in Leningrad from January 26th to February 26th, 1960 and won by Viktor Korchnoi, ahead of runners-up Petrosian and Geller. http://www.chessdiagonals.ch/402840... (video extract)
http://www.chess-in-the-cinema.de/s...
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| Jan-30-17 | | bengalcat47: Hi Sally. Sometime you should check out The American Cryptogram Association. If you like to solve secret coded messages then this is the place! |
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| Jan-30-17 | | Ilkka Salonen: Well, the pun plus the feeling of confusement about what is going on at move 15 bring to mind speculation if you are implying this was a fixed game. I don't remember if there even has indeed been speculation about this game. I read the book KGB plays chess and it's pretty interesting reading, but kind of left me feeling that under the title more things could be discussed. I would have wanted to know more about Petrosian's relationship to KGB, for example. |
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Jan-30-17
 | | MissScarlett: <Smersh and Grab> is better. |
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Jan-30-17
 | | dark.horse: A brilliant coup. |
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| Jan-30-17 | | catlover: A beautiful game. The connection with a James Bond movie makes it especially fun. |
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| Jan-30-17 | | morfishine: Spassky also upended Fischer in 1960 with the King's Gambit the 3...d6 "Bust" would not be resurrected til the following year by Fischer lol
***** |
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Jan-30-17
 | | HeMateMe: One of the better examples of chess being used in the movies, aside from a complete, good movie, like "Searching for Bobby Fischer." SMERSH was a real life acronym for a soviet intelligence group. SPECTRE is a takeoff on that, used by the Bond people for their 60s films. The two large groups were the GRU, Soviet military intelligence (international) and of course the KGB, in charge of domestic surveillance. I think the GRU still exists in that name. the KGB was downsized after the fall of communist leadership there and renamed FSS (Federal Security Service). |
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Feb-01-17
 | | scutigera: Also known as the FSB, after its Russian acronym (ФСБ for Федеральная служба безопасности), the way the KGB was known as the KGB rather than as the CSS. |
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| Feb-01-17 | | Olavi: The Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (SPECTRE) is an international organisation, often trying to provoke a conflict berween tha superpowers, so perheps Shmert Shpionam (SHMERSH) wasn't the model? At least they took some liberties. |
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| Apr-15-17 | | Albion 1959: Amazing to think that Bronstein was unable to defeat Spassky once in 22 games! The Spassky Immortal Game? Possibly, though the use of computers and powerful search engines will have taken some of the gloss of this game. A key feature of a Spassky attack is the white squared bishop usually on b3 or somewhere on the b1-h7 diagonal, pressing down on the f7 square: |
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Apr-15-17
 | | Benzol: It does seem amazing that Bronstein only managed to defeat Spassky once and that was in a blitz game. Bronstein vs Spassky, 1961 :) |
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| May-02-17 | | Ironmanth: Fantastic swashbuckling chess! Thanks for this one, chessgames. |
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| May-11-17 | | User not found: I can't be the only one who thinks this move...Nd6! 
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<One of the deepest sacrifices this side of The Evergreen Game -- Soltis> If you think about it it's an obvious looking move and one of the 1st you'd consider. Any decent player who plays tactically would see it and go for it. At worst you end up with these positions, blacks king is exposed but checking with the engine both these positions are dead equal.. 
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