Yeah, Go and Shogi: I have sets for playing both games, but finding over-the-board opponents for both games is impossible even though I live in an area 'colonised' by Japanese companies. On another topic, I have noticed that chess is often used as a symbol for intelligence. This is then usually immediately undermined by the sight of incorrectly oriented boards. This film avoided that error as far as I could see, but made a more subtle one. I mean, what are the odds that so many of the hero's simultaneous opponents (presumably quite good players in their own right) would each miss an immediate mate? Here 'drama' destroyed realism.
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