Chess Fever (1925)

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.
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nikolai Shpikovsky
José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Boris Barnet, Zakhar Darevsky, Konstantin Eggert, Natalya Glan, Ernst Grunfeld, F. Ivanov, Sergei Komarov, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Anatoli Ktorov, Frank Marshall, Yuli Raizman, Richard Reti, Rudolph Spielmann, Carlos Torre, F.D. Yates, Mikhail Zharov, Fyodor Otsep
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