isn t it strange the complications people attach to situations almost as if they want to miss the wood for the trees nothing will change my basic feeling when they have done all their wheeler dealing those in the strongest situations do as they please you might see all kinds of human emotion here passion and pain love and hate i see nothing other than a simple board game at the dusit thani hotel bangkok alexander molokov makes his move we did not bring you to bangkok for a holiday my dear you must tell your husband he has to lose the match and come home talk to anatoly you can have the life you want and anywhere you want it but if anatoly wins life is going to be very tough for you and your children tell anatoly that make him think of you not narcissistic dreams of glory how many times does he want to be champion anyway two days later the wife svetlana sergievsky makes her move how many times do you want to be champion anyway come home anatoly who needs a dream who needs ambition who d be the fool in my position once i had dreams now theyre obsessions hopes became needs lovers possessions now you re where you want to be and who you want to be and doing what you always said you would and yet you know you haven t won at all running for your life and never looking back in case there is someone right behind to shoot you down and say he always knew you d fall when that crazy wheel slows down where will you be back where you started and at the oriental hotel walter de courcy from global television plays his opening gambit you father is alive my father alive alive in russia 30 years in prison  and you think i would believe you well the evidence is conclusive and if you don t believe me anatoly will now you get him to lose against viigand and molokov assures me he can get your father out and not only him we have some people to recover i know that you would simply love a chance to make sure your father s name was high on our list we want him back which is to say a gesture is needed from your player we wouldn t mind if he got beaten in fact we insist there must be a lie you wouldn t tell me a limit to your devious ambition but what it could be i can t imagine is there no one here who s not a politician there s no deal when i was young i learned that memories shouldn t be built to last luxuries such as father mother jettisoned in the past how can a half remembered figure from a past so remote that it s hardly real alter the way i feel pity the child who 25 years on finds her confidence gone while in subterranean marble surroundings two of the world s most powerful players make a mid game assessment you should have seen how she reacted i couldn t leave till she d extracted promises she would see her father simple i said told her the way she could achieve this even though you might not believe this she said that i was not to worry go right ahead you don t know her well she could have fooled you she could despite herself try to resist us yes i may be wrong but to be certain there are others we can call in to assist us and who better than a dethroned king now remember who s been paying for you to be here freddie in bangkok we have a deal with the soviets to get some people out including florence s father provided anatoly loses and gets on back to moscow you d like that wouldn t you huh communist democrat an intriguing collusion fair exchange tit for tat comradeship in profusion and the appeal partner of this deal partner is we both stand to win you and me the lady also don t break her heart partner just be smart partner throw the match show your love is as pure as snow in moscow thank god we are so civilized and our word can be our bond we can turn this into friendship for life and beyond refugee total shit that s how i ve always seen us not a help you ll admit to agreement between us there s no deal partner who s your real partner could there be just a chance that you have got some heavy clients that s not true partner how could you partner think i d want to pursue any deal but our alliance how can you only think of your selfish ambition and not of her position or you d rather perhaps see her world collapse for a tinpot competition who put you up to this there s no deal so frederick makes a desperate final play for the woman he hasn t seen in a year silly boy woman who i should not have let walk out there s no hitch that we two can t untangle or talk out and the appeal partner of this deal partner is we both stand to win we will bring back the golden era stick with me honey leave him be honey you don t know what they have planned for you long ago in moscow can t you see we ve moved on chess has nothing to do with this chess isn t life but i have changed he won t help you with your father anatoly would never throw any match i m telling you the truth florence come back to me who d ever think it such a squalid little ending watching him descending just as low as he can go i m learning things i didn t want to know who d ever guess it this would be the situation one more complication should be neither here nor there i wish i had it in me not to care let him spill out his hate till he knows he s deserted there s no point wasting time preaching to the perverted who d ever think it no one makes the moves intended till the game has ended then they say i told you so i m learning things i didn t want to know it can all be different now florence i love you come back to me everybody s playing the game but nobody s rules are the same nobody s on nobody s side never be the first everybody s playing the game but nobody s rules are the same nobody s on nobody s side never be the last to deceive 