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Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Josh and Fred Waitzkin are playing chess, Fred picks up a bishop and puts down a rook.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Josh hits the clock button at the start of his match with Jonathan, but in the next shot the button on his side is still raised.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After he works out the sequence of moves which will win the game, Josh offers Jonathan a draw before making his move. Proper chess etiquette dictates that a player only offer a draw AFTER making a move.
  
  

• Continuity: Vinnie is holding the McDonald's cup with his fingertips and thumb. In the next shot, Vinnie's hand is wrapped around most of the cup.
  
  
• Continuity: When Fred meets Morgan's Father at the pool, the beach sandals and towel jump about between shots and then disappear.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scene when Josh encounters Vinnie for the first time, as Vinne stands there with the baseball pointing at the chess piece the sunlight is over his left shoulder. In the reverse angle shot of Josh, the sunlight should be over his *right* shoulder, yet the light is on Josh's left.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: "Errors" such as the McDonalds cups seen in the movie being from the early 90s and not mid-80s are not goofs. Although the real life events happened in the mid-80s, the movie makes no attempt at all to stay in period. The cars, computers, clothes, etc., are contemporary to the film and not from the 80s.
  
  
• Continuity: There are numerous mismatched shots of games in the film. In the final game, Josh moves his queen early in the game, yet later it can be seen on its starting square. In the first game he plays in the park against the old man who beat Tal, as he makes his first move there are already several pieces from both sides deployed on the board. In the first game against his dad, the father picks up a bishop in one shot and a second later sets down a rook to mate Josh.
  
  

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