Rossolimo: Chess Artist 2/2

This segment covers Rossolimo's chess career in America, during which he ran a famous chess studio in Greenwich Village, New York, for 17 years. During this time, Rossolimo became a trusted friend to all American chess players, including luminaries such as Bobby Fischer and Marcel Duchamp. The segment concludes with an account of the bizarre mystery surrounding his sudden death in 1975.

CORRECTION; Arturo Pomar was a Spanish, not Peruvian, chessmaster.

Written by Jessica Fischer

Narrated by Richard Dewoskin

Research by Jessica Fischer, Larry Crawford and Annie Kappel

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Rossolimo
• chess
• jessicafischerqueen
• kingscrusher
• Nicolas Rossolimo
• chess documentary
• Rossolimo chess studio
• Bobby Fischer
• Marcel Duchamp
• Greenwich Village
• David Bronstein
• Pal Benko
• Samuel Reshevsky
• World Open chess tournament

[keelasever]

I really love all the vids you,ve done about chess history .they are of high quality.I hope you go on doing this because your vids are really out of the ordinary. Good Luck.

Only one thing i guess you mixed up was the nationality of Arturo Pomar.

He is from Spain and not Peruvian.

[jessicafischerqueen]

@keelasever Thanks very much for the correction- you are right. Pomar was born in Spain, and not Peruvian. I put the correction in the video description.

[gabe10021]

Hi Jessica,

who's voice is on the documentary? I think it is very well done as well as the Rubinstein ones.

I regret the first ones were not put together this way with a voice over to narrate the biography, maybe you could redo them ?

Regards,

[jessicafischerqueen]

@gabe10021 Thanks Gabe- that's my boyfriend Richard Dewoskin. I will indeed be "redoing" a lot of the older videos- but it will take us a long, long time. It takes around three months to do one of them now.

[gabe10021]

@jessicafischerqueen yeah he narrates very well, and it is very well written.

I'm disappointed to hear that I'd have to wait another 3 months ;-)

what is the next video? when ?

[jessicafischerqueen]

@gabe10021 The next chess history video will be a biography of Rashid Nezhmetdinov. Coming up after that are Harry Pillsbury, Sultan Khan, Mikhail Tal. Those are the projects I've been researching. It will likely take a full year to complete all of them.

[kingscrusher]

Amazing video!

[drob281159]

Superb music. Thank you!



[HickysBoy]

Awesome videos, Jessica! Instructive, entertaining, extremely well-produced, researched, documented. As to Rossolimo I met him briefly at the Chess Studio Rossolimo in NYC.

[keelasever]

@jessicafischerqueen .i need to talk to you about this vid .may i have your mail?

or just have mine and write to me please. keelasever@gmail.com

[Catsfaith]

jessicafischerqueen! Is hard to not be drawn into the world they lived in the way your video are made - and is very much a nice treat to enter the chess worlds such as Rossolimo's. Nice to see him as more then just a win/loss rate or a set of games to be calculated. Thank you :)

[quagapp]

Brilliant again Jessica! Very moving. -Richard

[AnRiabhach]

A captivating documentary Jessica, I think you have a gift for this. I'm looking forward to your new work, especially Pillsbury. Thank you.

[skinnyjohnsen]

Fantastic video! I love the images, the music, cutting and editing, and both the information and narration is simply great! Thank you all so much ;-)

[EikeKehrel]

this video is a piece of art, too ! very well done

[gabe10021]

@jessicafischerqueen I can't wait! let me know if you need help!