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Subject:	What 2000 movie, based a book by Vladimir Nabokov, starred John Turturro? ...
Date:	Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:57:48 -0500
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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/spotlight_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23962_4443714,00.html

Your move: Match your chess, movie knowledge
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA

... 3.What 2000 movie, based a book by Vladimir Nabokov, starred John Turturro? ...

By Todd Bardwick, Special to the News
February 6, 2006

Chess has played a significant role in movies and in the lives of actors over the past century.

Try this test of your chess movie knowledge:

1. What famous 1963 movie opened with a chess position from a game played in 1960 between Boris Spassky and David Bronstein?

2. In the same movie, what reason did Spassky give as to why two white pawns were purposely omitted from d4 and c5 in the movie version of the real-life game?

3.What 2000 movie, based a book by Vladimir Nabokov, starred John Turturro?

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