Cliff Curtis in The Dark Horse 2014 Cliff is such a talented actor...he wears many hats! look him up, : )
Kubrick and George C. Scott were both strong chess players and had running games throughout the shooting of "Dr. Strangelove". Kubrick usually won.
In the Inner Sanctum radio show Death Across the Board (from 6 June 1945), a madman transforms city streets into a giant chessboard. This plot device has been used many times since, including a 1972 episode of Raymond Burr's Ironside guest-starring Noel Harrison.
One of my very favorite chess scenes in a movie, the one where weapons expert Mike Vickers (Christopher Denham) plays four people in a park in Charlie Wilson's War:
Andrew Bujalski's - Computer Chess (2013) In 1980, an annual gathering of teams of idiosyncratic nerds compete in a nondescript California hotel to see which of their computer programs can best the others at computer chess.
I think it was the Kubrick doc A LIFE IN PICTURES that mentioned Stanley making ends meet early in his career by playing chess in Washington Square.
Outstanding episode featuring the great Lawrence Harvey in one of his last roles. My only complaint is the idea that a World Chess Champion would lose an simultaneous exhibition game via “Fool’s Mate.” No matter how distracted he was, no chess player of even average ability would ever fall for it.