Chess Fever

12/21/19250h 24min6.4/10(51 TMDB votes)

Comedy

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Plot

With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.