“This is as close as one can have it.” The actors used real chess players for inspiration. Kasparov wasn’t sure TV could accurately depict the real feeling of high stakes chess but found himself convinced. “He had so much to give on a personal level about what it’s like to be seven or 10 years old and a genius, taken out of regular circumstances and having your life changed-family dynamics, the KGB, going to tournaments,” Holberg says. Indeed, Kasparov came of age roughly around the same time as the Harmon character and was also a child prodigy when she was coming to prominence. “The beautiful thing about Garry is that not only did he consult with us about the actual chess in the show, but he was the person who has an autobiography that mimics the main character.” “Through Bruce, we got introduced to Garry Kasparov, who’s probably the greatest chess player of all time,” Holberg says.
Pandolfini also made some integral introductions for the series to make its story seem as real as possible.
“He lived this era, he knew Bobby Fischer, and he was involved in the famous 1972 Fischer-Spassky broadcast from Reykjavik as a commentator,” Horberg says. According to Horberg, Pandolfini also lent some real-life expertise to the series’s depiction of the world of high-level chess in the mid-20 th century.
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So, Pandolfini taught members of the Gambit cast how to play the game-“he’s the godfather of chess and I deeply adore him,” series star Anya Taylor-Joy tells T&C-but that isn’t all he offered. It was a real moment of kismet to find that he had a connection to the author and original material he even came up with the title.” I brought him to lunch, and it turned out he had been hired by the publisher to be Walter Tevis’s consultant on the book. Pandolfini was the first guy I called when Scott Frank and I finally realized we were going to revive this project. We cover a wide variety of movies and engage in a lively conversation about what we liked in the pro.
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“I produced the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, and one of the people I met in the course of making that was Bruce Pandolfini, who’s a chess Grandmaster,” says William Horberg, an executive producer on the series.