![]() Among the tournament attendees is a Soviet officer who is working with the Americans, Agent White tells Agent Stone they call him Gift. Agent White pursues the hypnotist out of the chess game theatre, but is stopped by members of the Soviet group, who threaten his family who they know a lot about, including his wife being pregnant. In the second game, a hypnotist in the audience blocks Mansky's thoughts and he concedes the game. However, Mansky continues to access alcohol, smuggling it from functions he attends as part of the Chess social evenings. He tells Alfred to deny the American delegation alcohol. The Russian general major meets Gavrylov, and encourages him to keep playing on despite losing the first match. Mansky's eccentric behaviour and alcoholism is revealed to be partly due to his sheer brilliance, with alcohol slowing his brain function enough to operate more normally. Agent Stone reveals that he won the game in 32 moves only. Mansky recalls he got drunk with the hotel director in the morning and does not recall the day at all including the first chess game. The film cuts to four days before the opening scene. The hotel director is told by a Soviet general major (General Krutov, Russian counterintelligence) to 'look after' Mansky, implying he will keep the American chess player drunk. Mansky is housed in the hotel venue of the chess match Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw and meets the hotel director (Alfred Slega) who also seems to like alcohol. He is unable to make the first ceremonial move on the chess board after his opponent as he sees 8,900 moves at one time. Amphetamine drugs help him to regain consciousness before he has to go on to the chess match stage to make his first official appearance as the replacement American player. However, his drinking problem becomes apparent when he is found unconscious in his hotel room. Per tournament rules, Mansky is the only eligible substitute for Konigsberg, as Mansky was the last person to beat him Konigsberg was found dead by Soviet poisoning. He is told he will have to compete in a chess tournament against Alexander Gavrylov in the Polish capital, Warsaw as Konigsberg, the earstwhile American contender, has died. He has some part to play in the winning of the Cold War. We learn that Mansky is a genius who defeated Konigsberg twenty years before but has an unpredictable temperament. He wakes up in a safe room in the US Embassy, where their conversations are secure, and meets Agent Novak, who leads the operation. His agent kidnappers take him on board a plane, drugged. She offers a proposal, only for Mansky to walk out of the bar before hearing it he is followed out of the bar by another man (Agent White) who bundles him into the back of the car that was waiting outside his apartment. This seems to be a source of income for the chess player.Īn attractive girl in the bar (Agent Stone) approaches the chess player, whom she recognizes as Joshua Mansky, a brilliant mathematician and former champion chess player. The chess player wins the card game, takes the money and then receives his cut from the barman. We cut to a scene in a bar where the chess player is in a card game with three others and switches off a TV news item about the upcoming chess match between Soviet champion Alexander Gavrylov and the American Konigsberg. As the chess player walks in, a car pulls up outside the apartment. We cut back to seven days earlier, when the American chess player, an unkempt middle aged man, is talking to a taxi driver who addresses him as the ‘professor’ and drops him off at his apartment. The American looks dazed and has a blood stain on his hand. One of the players (the American) walks out to the table where the other (the Russian) is already seated. ![]() The first scene is one of a Grand Master chess match. The film starts with text setting the background of the height of the Cold War, with Soviet troops stationed in Cuba after the revolution, and President Kennedy being informed in 1962 that the USSR are likely to be preparing for war, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.
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