Answers.Body: <p>In addition to the other answer, that position was the subject of Tim Krabbé’s <a href="https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/diary_13.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Open Chess Diary #250</a>. He argues that the move played, 22...Kh7, is a blunder in the modified position.</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>[In the real game] 22...Kh7 was not a blunder; the other possibility 22...Ne6 is met by 23.Ng6 or Qe4 and the Ne6 soon falls. In Kronsteen - MacAdams however, for some reason, the White pawns d4 and c5 were missing, allowing Black a vital check on c5, which enables him to put up a tenacious and possibly successful defence with 22...Ne6.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>However, he wrote this in 2004, presumably without checking with an engine. In 2022, I have the luxury of being able to run Stockfish depth 20 via lichess, and apparently 22...Ne6 is still +2.8 (winning for White) after 23.Ng6 (the only move that keeps an edge). Now:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>23...Qc5+ 24.Kh1. The threat is Bxe6 and Qf7+ (in either order) to win the knight. The only way to avoid it is 24...Kh7, which runs into 25.Qe4, with the simple threat of 26.Nf8 Kh8 27.Qh7# (crucially, Nf8 is a double check, so the black knight has no useful discovery)</li>
  <li>23...Qd6 24.Qe4 and Black cannot prevent the loss of the knight. Black can exchange the queens via 24...Rad8 25.Nf4 Qd4+ 26.Qxd4 Rxd4 but after 27.Nxe6! (27.Bxe6 might be a technically winning endgame, but Black has much more hope of holding) Black will lose another exchange. Stockfish gives 27...Rb4 28.Nxc7+ Rxb3 29.axb3 followed by ...Re2 or ...Re3 as Black’s best, but White is able to keep at least one pawn alive on the queenside, so the piece-up endgame is a fairly easy win.</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>This game is based on a 1960 game between Boris Spassky and David Bronstein, on the 16th round of the USSR Championship:</p>
  <pre><code>[FEN &quot;&quot;]
  [Event &quot;URS-ch27 Final&quot;]
  [Site &quot;Leningrad&quot;]
  [Date &quot;1960.02.20&quot;]
  [Round &quot;16&quot;]
  [White &quot;Spassky, Boris Vasilievich&quot;]
  [Black &quot;Bronstein, David Ionovich&quot;]
  [Result &quot;1-0&quot;]
  [ECO &quot;C36&quot;]
  [PlyCount &quot;53&quot;]
  [EventDate &quot;1960.01.26&quot;]
  [EventType &quot;tourn&quot;]
  [EventRounds &quot;19&quot;]
  [EventCountry &quot;URS&quot;]
  
  1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Bd6 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. d4 O-O 7. Bd3 Nd7 8. O-O
  h6 9. Ne4 Nxd5 10. c4 Ne3 11. Bxe3 fxe3 12. c5 Be7 13. Bc2 Re8 14. Qd3 e2 15.
  Nd6 Nf8 16. Nxf7 exf1=Q+ 17. Rxf1 Bf5 18. Qxf5 Qd7 19. Qf4 Bf6 20. N3e5 Qe7 21.
  Bb3 Bxe5 22. Nxe5+ Kh7 23. Qe4+ 1-0
  </code></pre>
  <p>As you can see, the game on the film shows the same position as after black's move 21, but without the pawns on c5 and d4.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: My guess is that they removed those 2 pawns for aesthetic reasons, as they'd partially obscure the queen from certain camera angles.  It's unlikely they had a chess master on staff when they made the film, they just took a recent game and modified it, thinking (likely correctly) that most of the audience wouldn't notice or care - it only had to be convincing to a layman.  (Also people didn't hyper-analyze films in those days to the degree they do now - especially since seeing it more than once required buying another ticket...)
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Body: <p>The beginning of the James Bond film <em>From Russia with love</em> (1963) portrays the end of a game between the fictional characters Kronsteen (Czechoslovakia) and Macadams (Canada) in the last and decisive round of the Venice International Grandmasters Championship. The moves go like this:</p>
  <pre><code>[White &quot;Kronsteen&quot;]
  [Black &quot;Macadams&quot;]
  [FEN &quot;r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/4b3/5Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1&quot;]
  
  1.Nxe5+ Kh7 2.Qe4+ 1-0 
  </code></pre>
  <p>Is this game based on a real game or famous problem?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Just noticed that Kronsteen moves Qe4 with his left hand, then presses the clock with his right hand. Oops.
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Comments.Text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Players_(film) Bollywood movie based on chess in year 1977.
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Comments.Text: Late Lord Richard Attenborough  was one of the artists in the movie "The Chess Players".
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Tags: <history><famous-games><film>
Title: Game in James Bond film "From Russia with love"
ThreadText: # Game in James Bond film "From Russia with love"
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-05-21)
  
  The beginning of the James Bond film From Russia with love (1963) portrays the end of a game between the fictional characters Kronsteen (Czechoslovakia) and Macadams (Canada) in the last and decisive round of the Venice International Grandmasters Championship. The moves go like this:
  [White "Kronsteen"]
  [Black "Macadams"]
  [FEN "r3rnk1/ppp1qNp1/7p/4b3/5Q2/1B6/PP4PP/5RK1 w - - 0 1"]
  
  1.Nxe5+ Kh7 2.Qe4+ 1-0 
  
  Is this game based on a real game or famous problem?
  
  **Tags:** history, famous-games, film
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Just noticed that Kronsteen moves Qe4 with his left hand, then presses the clock with his right hand. Oops.  
  > **username_2**: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Players_(film) Bollywood movie based on chess in year 1977.  
  > **username_2**: Late Lord Richard Attenborough  was one of the artists in the movie "The Chess Players".  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_0 on 2022-05-21. Score: 26 | Accepted answer
  
  This game is based on a 1960 game between Boris Spassky and David Bronstein, on the 16th round of the USSR Championship:
  [FEN ""]
  [Event "URS-ch27 Final"]
  [Site "Leningrad"]
  [Date "1960.02.20"]
  [Round "16"]
  [White "Spassky, Boris Vasilievich"]
  [Black "Bronstein, David Ionovich"]
  [Result "1-0"]
  [ECO "C36"]
  [PlyCount "53"]
  [EventDate "1960.01.26"]
  [EventType "tourn"]
  [EventRounds "19"]
  [EventCountry "URS"]
  
  1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 Bd6 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. d4 O-O 7. Bd3 Nd7 8. O-O
  h6 9. Ne4 Nxd5 10. c4 Ne3 11. Bxe3 fxe3 12. c5 Be7 13. Bc2 Re8 14. Qd3 e2 15.
  Nd6 Nf8 16. Nxf7 exf1=Q+ 17. Rxf1 Bf5 18. Qxf5 Qd7 19. Qf4 Bf6 20. N3e5 Qe7 21.
  Bb3 Bxe5 22. Nxe5+ Kh7 23. Qe4+ 1-0
  
  As you can see, the game on the film shows the same position as after black's move 21, but without the pawns on c5 and d4.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_4**: My guess is that they removed those 2 pawns for aesthetic reasons, as they'd partially obscure the queen from certain camera angles.  It's unlikely they had a chess master on staff when they made the film, they just took a recent game and modified it, thinking (likely correctly) that most of the audience wouldn't notice or care - it only had to be convincing to a layman.  (Also people didn't hyper-analyze films in those days to the degree they do now - especially since seeing it more than once required buying another ticket...)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2022-05-23. Score: 4
  
  In addition to the other answer, that position was the subject of Tim Krabbé’s [Open Chess Diary #250](https://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/diary_13.htm). He argues that the move played, 22...Kh7, is a blunder in the modified position.
  
  > [In the real game] 22...Kh7 was not a blunder; the other possibility 22...Ne6 is met by 23.Ng6 or Qe4 and the Ne6 soon falls. In Kronsteen - MacAdams however, for some reason, the White pawns d4 and c5 were missing, allowing Black a vital check on c5, which enables him to put up a tenacious and possibly successful defence with 22...Ne6.
  
  However, he wrote this in 2004, presumably without checking with an engine. In 2022, I have the luxury of being able to run Stockfish depth 20 via lichess, and apparently 22...Ne6 is still +2.8 (winning for White) after 23.Ng6 (the only move that keeps an edge). Now:
  
  * 23...Qc5+ 24.Kh1. The threat is Bxe6 and Qf7+ (in either order) to win the knight. The only way to avoid it is 24...Kh7, which runs into 25.Qe4, with the simple threat of 26.Nf8 Kh8 27.Qh7# (crucially, Nf8 is a double check, so the black knight has no useful discovery)
  * 23...Qd6 24.Qe4 and Black cannot prevent the loss of the knight. Black can exchange the queens via 24...Rad8 25.Nf4 Qd4+ 26.Qxd4 Rxd4 but after 27.Nxe6! (27.Bxe6 might be a technically winning endgame, but Black has much more hope of holding) Black will lose another exchange. Stockfish gives 27...Rb4 28.Nxc7+ Rxb3 29.axb3 followed by ...Re2 or ...Re3 as Black’s best, but White is able to keep at least one pawn alive on the queenside, so the piece-up endgame is a fairly easy win.
  
  
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