Maguire to play mad chess genius

08 June 2015 - 09:26
By Tymon Smith

It's taken decades but finally the story of chess genius and all-round madman Bobby Fischer's 1972 Cold War world championship face-off with Boris Spassky has been turned into a feature film. Starring Tobey Maguire as Fischer and Liev Schreiber as Spassky , the first trailer for Ed Zwick's Pawn Sacrifice debuted on YouTube last week.

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