Review of Pawn Sacrifice (2015) by Smiyamot — 23 Jan 2016

Okay, I'm old. I was college age when the Spassky matches happened. But in those days, mental illness was not out in the open like it is today. Nobody talked about it, even on college campuses. So when Bobby was acting nuts, we thought he was a bad boy, or working some strategy on the Soviets, or just acting the way all geniuses acted, which was accepted from geniuses.

Seeing this movie explained a lot. I also played chess from childhood so seeing how Bobby attacked the Soviet chess machine was an eye opener. There was no talk of this back in the day.