Sunday, September 12 | 13:30 | Warszawa Room
Game of chess with polish Beth Harmon. Meeting with the grandmaster and an international chess arbiter Agnieszka Brustman after the film GLORY TO THE QUEEN, dir. Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze.
In Polish
Partner: Pomeranian Chess Association
Agnieszka Brustman represented Poland at 9 Chess Olympiads where she played as a leader, with the world’s top players for nearly 20 years. She was awarded four medals for Outstanding Sports Achievements. She will tell us how she competed against a whole array of USSR players on her own and what it is like to be the best Polish chess player. In 1988, in Georgian Tsqaltubo she went through to the tournament in which she was the only player from outside USSR. In both tournaments, she took the 6th place which was the counterpart of the 7th position in the world at that time. She played against the top seven chess players of the world in both. Among them, there were the Georgian players – the protagonists of our film. There is a short film episode in Agnieszka Brustman’s career too – in 1988, she played a participant of a simultaneous chess competition in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Dekalog: One”.
Host:
Przemek Rydzewski – co-creator and coordinator of the Tricity edition of Millennium Docs Against Gravity.
