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Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.
Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns, each of these types of pieces moving differently. Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces. The object of the game is to 'checkmate' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture. In addition to checkmate, the game can be won by the voluntary resignation of one's opponent, which may occur when too much material is lost, or if checkmate appears unavoidable. A game may also result in a draw in several ways, where neither player wins. The course of the game is divided in three phases. The beginning of the game is called the opening (with the development of pieces). The opening yields to the phase called the middlegame. The last phase is the endgame, generally characterized by the disappearance of queens.
Actors: Ian Fisher (actor), Ian Fisher (director), Ian Fisher (producer), Dominique Swain (actress), Sasha Krane (producer), Danay Garcia (actress), Yaniv Raphael Bar (editor), Yaniv Raphael Bar (producer), Yaniv Raphael Bar (actor), Kathrine Kohl Thorbek (actress), Giuseppe Schillaci (actor), Louis-Karim Nébati (actor), Tal Berkovich (actress), Tal Berkovich (producer), Tal Berkovich (writer),
Genres: Short, Thriller,Actors: Andre Royo (actor), Vern Moen (editor), Vern Moen (producer), Vern Moen (director), Paula Malcomson (actress), Michael Gladis (actor), Grant Lee Phillips (actor), Jesse Gloyd (director), Matt Maust (director), Jesse Gloyd (writer), Matt Maust (producer), Jesse Gloyd (producer), Robert Pierce (producer),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short,Actors: Ricci Harnett (actor), Kristin McIlquham (producer), Henry Blake (writer), Henry Blake (director), Paulo Pandolpho (editor), Victoria Bavister (producer), Ronin Traynor (actor), James Pickering (composer), Asami Ohkubo (miscellaneous crew), June Walker (miscellaneous crew), Zarrien Masieh (actor), June Walker (actor), Ross Philip Lynch (writer), Andre Fyffe (miscellaneous crew), Andre Fyffe (actor),
Plot: Addi & Chess are best mates. However both of them are changing and so is the world around them. Over one day their lives are tested as is the friendship they thought would never change. The film explores an intense bond between two teenage boys set in an area of London which is redefining itself.
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Plot: Fred Williamson stars as Stone, a Los Angeles-area private eye. After a movie star's funeral, the star's signature walking cane disappears. Stone discovers that the cane is somehow connected to a string of murders. Stone's investigation takes him onto a porn movie set and into a religious cult. A major subplot involves Stone's intermittent relationship with a young bisexual woman, and the tension therein.
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Plot: The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
Keywords: based-on-novel, hidden-treasure, pirate, south-seas, trucolor, volcano, whippingPity the Child
>From the Musical Chess
When I was nine I learned survival
Taught myself not to care
I was my single good companion
Taking my comfort there
Up in my room I planned my conquests
On my own, never asked for a helping hand
No one would understand
I never asked the pair who fought below
Just in case they said no
Pity the child who has ambition
Knows what he wants to do
Knows that he'll never fit the system
Others expect him to
Pity the child who knew his parents
Saw their faults, saw their love die before his eyes
Pity the child that wise
He never asked, did I cause your distress?
Just in case they said yes
When I was twelve my father moved out
Left with a whimper not with a shout
I didn't miss him, he made it perfectly clear
I was a fool, and probably queer
Fool that I was, I thought this would bring
Those he had left closer together
She made her move the moment he crawled away
I was the last the woman told
She never let her bed get cold
Someone moved in, I shut my door
Someone to treat her just the same way as before
I took the road of least resistance
I had my game to play
I had the skill, and more - the hunger
Easy to get away
Pity the child with no such weapons
Do defence, no escape from the ties that bind
Always a step behind
I never called to tell her all I'd done
I was only her son
Pity the child but not forever
Not if he stays that way
He can get all he ever wanted
If he's prepared to pay
Pity instead the careless mother
What she missed, what she lost when she let me go
And I wonder, does she know
I wouldn't call, a crazy thing to do