The French Defense, clip. 3

A play by Dimitri Raitzin

Directed by Aleksey Burago

Starring Robert J. D'Amato
& Dan Simon

Television Directors
Raj Sirohi
Roger Hendricks Simon

Produced for Simon Studio Presents by
Dan Simon
Roger Hendricks Simon

It's Moscow, 1960. For a whole year the world has been waiting to see what happens when Tal and Botvinnik meet for the World Chess Crown. And now, the wait is over. The time is now.

The French Defense by Dimitri Raitzin is an award-winning play about this struggle of generations. The protagonists are the new and the old, pure talent and a lifetime of experience, two different styles and two different outlooks on life.

It is a play about a collision between the two best chess players in the world: the Champion - a survivor of the Stalin era who has held the World Title for 12 years, and the Challenger - a bright new phenom who has only one thing on his mind: victory.


Dimitri Raitzin was born in Moscow and emigrated to Israel and then to the United States in 1975. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia Business School. Prior to embarking on a career as a playwright he has had a 15 year career on Wall Street.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Dan
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• Chess
• Drama
• Theater
• Acting
• Television
• 1960's
• Russia
• Politics
• Cold
• War
• Jews
• Moscow
• Competitive
• Intellectual
• Conflict

[poolplayer999]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Qc7 7.Qg4

f5 8.Qg3 Ne7 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 cxd4 11.Kd1 Bd7 12.Qh5+ Ng6

13.Ne2 d3 14.cxd3 Ba4+ 15.Ke1 Qxe5 16.Bg5 Nc6 17.d4 Qc7 18.h4

e5 19.Rh3 Qf7 20.dxe5 Ncxe5 21.Re3 Kd7 22.Rb1 b6 23.Nf4 Rae8

24.Rb4 Bc6 25.Qd1 Nxf4 26.Rxf4 Ng6 27.Rd4 Rxe3+ 28.fxe3 Kc7

29.c4 dxc4 30.Bxc4 Qg7 31.Bxg8 Qxg8 32.h5 1-0

[poolplayer999]

does anyone have the full variation that they played out? Looks like the Poisoned Pawn variation of Winawer?

[Ruxistico]

strange... When I watched the first clip I just thought "damn this is terrible" but now I find myself strangely intruiged...

[zada4a]

aatack attack attack

[PhilomathBret]

I'm sure glad Tal said "check". Botvinnik wouldn't have noticed.

[keynesrules]

Very good.

[icesyncer]

yea its good.

[franciscofelipe]

I wanna see the end of it.

[Tequ9q]

dammit.. good serie.. but yeah.. where is the rest of the play?!?!? agh :D

[dreamcastII]

where is the rest of the play ? Don't just stop it here