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Review

Every competitive endeavor, whether baseball, figure skating or chess, contains at its core artistry and purity. It's remarkable for a film to capture the passionate involvement of an activity's participants; even more so when the activity is as internal as that of chess. Searching for Bobby Fischer is profoundly successful in this. The story of a young boy's initiation into a glorious obsession with chess is intercut with an almost mythologized recounting of the career of Bobby Fisher. Pomeranc is mesmerizing as Josh, the 10-year-old whose intuitive grasp of the game thrusts him into a world of rivalry, clashing egos and immense satisfactions.