Listen, if I told you about a game … it’s more like a battle, an old-day warfare – it’s called chess. The Grass Arena 1991 ***** starring Peter Postlethwaite & Mark Rylance & Lynsey Baxter & Marian McLoughlin & Andrew Dicks & Billy Boyle & Nick Dawney & Simon Napper & John Garrett & Brian Hall & Gerard Horan et al, director Gillies MacKinnon, bloke in Nick
It’s a mental opiate – chess. Barbaric Genius, John Healy, Sky Arts 2012
During his chess career John won ten international chess tournaments. ibid.
To kill a king. Life of a King 2013 starring Cuba Gooding junior & Malcolm Mays & Richard T Jones & Paula Jai Parker & Carlton Byrd & LisaGay Hamilton & Dennis Haysbert et al, director Jake Goldberger, geezer to geezer prison yard
You want to find out? Sit down. ibid. teacher to students
I robbed a bank. Cops came and we all scattered. ibid. hero to chess club
135,457. Chess is the highest evolved example of a board game produced by the human race. Professor Irving Finkel, Games Britannia I: Dicing with Destiny, BBC 2020