Jim West On Chess: Maguire as Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice"

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Maguire as Fischer in "Pawn Sacrifice"

How well did Tobey Maguire portray Bobby Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice?

One reviewer feels that "Maguire captures Fischer’s intensity and delivers, ultimately, a moving portrait of the complicated Fischer."

Another reviewer writes that "Tobey’s portrayal of Bobby Fischer was a total miss."

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov