Tonight’s episode of “Bones” is centered around a strong chessplayer named Albert Magnusen getting murdered. Wonder where they got that name… There was a scene at a chess club where they were using sets correctly set up but all had analog clocks.
Mike
I wouldn’t say their images of chess players is particularly flattering overall.
No it isn’t, but chess is usually “picked on” by the media in the presentation of chess players. At least in this one you got to see a club where people enjoy themselves and see a series of blitz games where the players are actually playing real recognizable openings. As it is turning out it isn’t the chess player who is the murderer but his mother. Not that that is much better
Nope the chess player did it.
Guess I was writing about the mom as it happened in the background and thought the chess player confessing was just trying to defend his mother. Perhaps with people like Magnus the champion/model the chess player archetype will change from the nerd to something better.
Of course using analog clocks was a deliberate decision. Probably for both the romantic inclination of the game, and the fact most the majority of the public that doesn’t play chess wouldn’t know that digital clocks have largely replaced analog clocks.
It’s also more likely that those of the public that have seen a chess movie… was most likely “Searching for Bobby Fischer” in which analog clocks were used, since both the timeline and the movie was both before the advent of widely used digital clocks.
(Yes, I know there was one or two early digital clocks far pre-dating the Chronos and Gametimes, but it wasn’t until those clocks came out that digital clocks started to largely replace analog clocks in clubs and tournaments).