Jim West On Chess: Jinky to Earn Royalties from Movie

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Jinky to Earn Royalties from Movie

According to a report in the Manila Standard Today, Jinky Young stands to receive royalties from a movie about Bobby Fischer.

Let the reader beware! There may be factual errors in the article. The reporter seems to have his films mixed up.

Kevin Macdonald is the director of Bobby Fischer Goes to War.

Tobey Maguire will star as Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice.

At the time of his death, only a few days after Fischer's, Heath Ledger was working on a film adaptation of Walter Tevis's novel The Queen's Gambit.

"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