Agency:.Produced in collaboration with la Société Radio-Canada.

Director, Gilles Carle, Camille Coudari ; producer, Hélène Verrier ; photography, Pierre Letarte, Thomas Vamos ; editing, Yves Leduc ; sound editing, Michel B. Bordeleau ; re-recording, Jean-Pierre Joutel.

Narrator, Bondfield Marcoux ; cast, Fernando Arrabal, Bobby Fisher, Anatoly Karpov, Viktor Kortchnoi, Boris Spassky.

Recorded 1982.

In this Gilles Carle feature documentary on the game of chess, the international chess match is cast as a classic Western shoot-out. Three chess greats dominate the film: Russia's Anatoly Karpov; Viktor Korchnoi, a Russian defector; and American Bobby Fischer. Chess aficionados Camille Coudari and Fernando Arrabal analyze the personalities and strategies of the players and comment on the interplay of politics and chess.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

International Press Award, 1982 Honorable Mention, 1983

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).