Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who became the youngest grandmaster in the history of the game. Always looking for the best competition – driven to find it, in fact – he publicly and loudly challenged the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky, the reigning world champion at the height of the Cold War.
What most people didn’t know was that Fischer was fighting another battle – an interior battle that threatened his very sanity. This is what lies at the heart of Pawn Sacrifice. Check out the crazy intense trailer after the jump.
Pawn Sacrifice will be in theaters September 18th.
PAWN SACRIFICE
In Select Theatres September 18th
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, PAWN SACRIFICE chronicles Fischer’s terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
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