Pawn Sacrifice (2015) Tobey Maguire - Movie Review

Edward Zwick directs this biopic on the enigmatic genius, Bobby Fischer, a chess wizard from Brooklyn who would take the media and popular culture by storm when he rose to challenge the great Russian players who had dominated the game for many years.  Cocky and sure of himself, he proceeds to take down his opponents in the chess circuit, with world champion Boris Spassky is dead in his sights.  Much of the film is a build-up to the eventual match between Fischer and Spassky in the 1972 world chess championships in Reykjavik, Iceland, as well as the political implications in a Cold War environment, that everyone seemed to care about, save for Bobby Fischer, who would become an unwilling participant.