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Chess in the Movies

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Chess serves the same symbolic purpose on film as in life -- intellectual activity, competition, gamesmanship -- plus a quick nod to art and science. Here are movie scenes showing chess and people playing chess. [Scans courtesy of Champions Stuff.]

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As the Devil Commands (1933)	Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)	A Girl With Ideas (1937)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)	Casablanca (1942)	Voice of the Whistler (1945)
The Pretender (1947)	Mask of the Avenger (1951)	Anything Can Happen (1952)
Sins of the Borgias (1953)	Flood Tide (1958)	The Scapegoat (1959)

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