The Usual Blunders
As noted in this post, Damian Robert Chapa has produced a movie about Bobby Fischer. Given the importance of chess to a movie about the greatest chess player who ever lived, you'd think that the producer would make absolutely certain he did NOT make the usual stupid mistake that almost every chess film makes.
Check out the trailer, posted on Youtube here.
Find the blunders?
Here's the first:
The board is set up incorrectly, the most basic rule of chess. The board must be set up so that the queen is on the square of her color. As you can see in the image, the white queen is on a black square and black queen on a white square. That is wrong.
The next blunder is less obvious, but just as bad. The trailer has Fischer playing a stupid opening, one he never played.
From the image you can see the game has gone (assuming that the pawn in front of the queen is the queen's pawn):
1. d3 nc6
2. f3
Having the queen on the wrong square makes it hard to visualize, but white (Fischer) opens by moving the queen pawn one square, black responds by moving out the queen knight, and then white plays the king's bishop pawn out one square.
This is about as stupid an opening as you can play. I thank we can say having Fischer play such an open is a bad blunder.
It's possible that the producer/director did not create the trailer. Even if so, he should have made certain that it did not include stupid chess blunders.