EMPIRE STATE OF CHESS - Documentary on Chess in NYC During COVID
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2022
- The game of chess has been bringing New Yorkers together for years in parks, squares, cozy clubs and tournament halls. But how can this beloved pastime survive amid a pandemic? Meet the city’s most interesting pawn pushers, grandmasters, club owners and street players who keep the hope, and the game, alive.
This past year, as a The New School Documentary Studies student, I was given the opportunity to make a short documentary on any topic in New York City. After The Queen's Gambit was released on Netflix last Fall, my brother and I started researching #chess in New York City.
#EmpireStateOfChess is a film about chess in New York at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chess is one of the oldest and most popular activities in NYC, and has brought New Yorkers together for years. This film explores how the NYC chess community adapted to the imposed restrictions from the ongoing health crisis.
For months, I filmed with many of NYC’s most influential chess players and advocates including @carl_neblett, Union Square’s most famous and dedicated chess player; Irina Krush, the only active female American Grandmaster (@irina.krush); Shawn Martinez, National Master and one of the best chess coaches in the country (@pushingpawnsnyc); and Imad Khachan, owner of the @chessforum, the last old style New York chess store and game parlor still open to the public. It has been an incredibly rewarding journey to film this documentary and I’m beyond thankful to have met these people along the way.
The film, completed in June 2021, won the National Board of Review (@NBR) Student Grant and was screened at Doc NYC, NYC Film Week as well as other festivals in the U.S.
Enjoy!
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Beautiful documentary. I’m glad chess is becoming more popular now and those businesses and hustlers are starting to see a revival
thank you so much!
Need more chess docs like this. Great work
thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it.
Wow I've never expected someone who will make a documentary from 10 subs! Keep it up hoping for more docs in the future!
thank you!
Very well done documentary. Really enjoyed the stories you captured.
thank you so much!
Awesome film. Made me remember the days when I lived and played chess in the city. Thank you posting this.
Thanks so much for your comment! Where did you use to play? Union Sq? Washington Sq Park? Also... who's your favorite character/the most interesting in your opinion?
Simon
This deserves more views! Great documentary 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! thank you so much
Really enjoyed this!
thank you so much :)
Excellent documentary!
thank you so much. Glad you enjoyed it.
no way you got only 30 subs. Great documentary.
ha thank you! I should post more :)
@@simontchoukriel yeah, keep up the good work man, really looking forward to more from you
@@nhatan2511 thank you so much! working on a series of cinematic short films in the city... will post the first one soon.
just posted the first one :) check it out!
Great chess documentary! Any more coming up?
thank you !
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thank you !
Thank you for this. I really enjoyed it. Hoping to one day come and play chess in NY. When that time comes will see if I can make contact with you. FM Cupid here.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Definitely reach out when you're in NYC. We'll go film in Union Square or Washington Square Park.
That's rough... I hear there is only one chess shop with OTB games in the entire city of NYC. And this guy is trying to survive by playing chess for money. That is doubly rough. What else is there to do when you cannot earn enough between two SERVICE jobs to pay bills? It's a shame that chess has declined in NYC, unless we are seeing simply a change in where and how chess is played, if not its popularity. I don't like the trend of chess being increasingly online. It's just not the same... I hope it has returned to some semblance of what it was before the demons hatched the plan of the virus and the subsequent lockdowns as laid out in a Rockefeller document in 2010.
I live in India, where chess is thriving and growing.
There is no better place in the city than the Chess Forum to play OTB chess.. And Imad is the best!
Felt like a movie. Great skill for transfering the feeling and empathy. I hope u make it one day !
thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Working on a new piece... more cinematic. Keep you posted!
@@simontchoukriel sure thing. I think that chess leaks these kind of cinematic edits to really make it go big and grab wider audience that will watch it