Karpov is the one on the right.
Now they are real fans
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2025
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Needa change one of the players to white >.>
And add a company logo on the front like football jerseys. Two rival Russian companies.
Incredible work
Realistically speaking, how many of them could even follow the game? Seeing every piece, I mean.
Based on my knowledge of chess tournaments from this time (binge watching The Queen’s Gambit), they have a guy whose job it is to update a large representation of the board on the wall as the game is taking place, so the audience can see
That guy is also shown in the first scene after the opening credits to From Russia With Love.
From my experience with the queens gambit, they would have giant boards that people update in between turns.
The moves were announced and I believe they were following along with chess-specific score/move sheets in their hands. I wouldn't be surprised if the move announcements were all that would be necessary, though for a bunch of chess fanatics.
I saw a documentary that featured a dramatic reenactment of a scene like this and that's how it went 🤷
At the time of this match, I do believe they had overhead projectors (the kind that magnify whatever is placed on their surface). So they might have had a projector-specific (with the necessary transparency) chessboard projected behind/above the camera also showing the moves.
Another way I've seen it done is with magnetic pieces on a giant blackboard-like surface that had the squares drawn/painted on. There would be a person on each side with a pole that could move the pieces. One person would be assigned to white, the other to black.
If everyone is sitting up high like that a simple extra large chessboard on the floor nearby would suffice as well. They could even place it down at an angle for the audience to view. I don't know if they did that but I was thinking about it, "how would I do it without modern technology?" That's probably how I'd do it 🤷
I'd be the guy in the middle wearing black that forgot it was white T-shirt day.
You would still stand out of you wore a white T-shirt, they’re all long sleeves.
You are being incredibly pedantic... which I both love and support, 5 stars.
Congratulations, you just won an eight-year vacation to beautiful Siberia.
Do they all shop at the same place?
It was the USSR period of Soviet Russia…so yes.
There's a joke in Cuba. You go to the store and you're upset because there's only one brand for everything. But you console yourself knowing its the one brand Americans would kill to get their hands on.
I wish every second person was wearing a black t-shirt
why the white shirts?
Maybe they're all cheering for the white pieces?
that makes sense now
Which row?