Ladies and gentlemen, Tim Rice.
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
It's a great pleasure to be here at the Albert Hall
in a concert version of a show
l wrote or began writing
with Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
about a quarter of a century ago.
And l think at last we're getting it right.
And one of the reasons l think we're getting it right
is that we've got a terrific team here
under the direction of Hugh Wooldridge.
And l'd like you to meet them--
l'd like you to meet them
just before we get going.
So will you please welcome Josh Groban
ldina Menzel
Adam Pascal
David Bedella
Clark Peters
Herry Ellis
and the pride of Scotland Marti Pellow!
And now will you please be kind enough to welcome
the man whose charismatic baton
will control the proceedings
Maestro David Firman.
♪ Each game of chess ♪
♪ Means there's one less ♪
♪ Variation left to be played ♪
♪ Each day got through ♪
♪ Means one or two ♪
♪ Less mistakes remain to be made ♪
♪ Not much is known ♪
♪ Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report ♪
♪ That 1,500 years ago two princes fought ♪
♪ Though brothers for a Hindu throne ♪
♪ Their mother cried ♪
♪ For no one really likes their offspring fighting to the death ♪
♪ She begged them to stop the slaughter with her every breath ♪
♪ But sure enough one brother died ♪
♪ Sad beyond belief she told her winning son ♪
♪ "You have caused such grief ♪
♪ l can't forgive this evil thing you've done" ♪
♪ He tried to explain how things had really been ♪
♪ But he tried in vain ♪
♪ No words of his could mollify the queen ♪
♪ And so he asked the wisest men he knew ♪
♪ The way to lessen her distress ♪
♪ They told him he'd be certain to impress ♪
♪ By using model soldiers on a checkered board ♪
♪ To show it was his brother's fault ♪
♪ They thus invented chess ♪
♪ Chess displayed no inertia ♪
♪ Soon spread to Persia ♪
♪ Then west ♪
♪ Next ♪
♪ The Arabs refined it ♪
♪ Thus redesigned it ♪
♪ Progressed ♪
♪ Still further yet ♪
♪ And when Constantinople fell in 1453 ♪
♪ One would have noticed every other refugee ♪
♪ Included in his bags a set ♪
♪ Once in the hands ♪
♪ And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance ♪
♪ The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance ♪
♪ Through all of Europe's vital lands ♪
♪ Where we must record the game was further changed ♪
♪ Right across the board ♪
♪ The Western touch upon the pieces ranged ♪
♪ King and queen and rook ♪
♪ And bishop, knight and pawn ♪
♪ All took on the look we know today ♪
♪ The modern game was born ♪
♪ And in the end ♪
♪ We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan ♪
♪ And boosted in the main by what is now Iran ♪
♪ Become the simplest yet most complicated ♪
♪ Pleasure yet devised ♪
♪ For just the kind of mind who would appreciate ♪
♪ This well-researched and fascinating yarn. ♪
The World Chess Federation
of which l have the honor of being president,
announces that the next world championship
will take place here in Merano, Italy.
The current world champion Frederick Trumper
of the United States of America
will defend his title against Anatoly Sergievsky
of the Soviet Union.
The first player to achieve six victories
will be declared champion.
The first game will begin
on March 27th, 1979.
Welcome, world, to Merano.
♪ Oh, light the heart ♪
♪ That lingers in Merano ♪
♪ Merano! The spa no ♪
♪ Connoisseur of spas would miss ♪
♪ So healthy, highly recommended ♪
-♪ Is this sweet metropolis ♪ -♪ Mental and physical bliss ♪
♪ The gods have smiled ♪
♪ And blessed is Merano ♪
♪ Merano! There are no ♪
♪ Fitter burghers to be found ♪
♪ Such vigor! ♪
♪ Take the time to taste us ♪
♪ We'll give you a welcome that's typically Tyrol ♪
♪ For then we are sure of our ground ♪
♪ Right now we're Italian, we used to be German ♪
♪ The border keeps shifting around ♪
♪ Speaking as one of the patriarchs ♪
♪ l don't mind taking your lira or marks ♪
♪ Oh, l get high when l saunter by ♪
♪ The mountains of Merano ♪
♪ Rosy-cheeked Merano ♪
♪ Flourishing to a fault ♪
♪ The sparkling streams, the bracing air ♪
♪ The therapeutic salt ♪
♪ l'd have to be carried away to call a halt! ♪
♪ Oh, l feel great in this bouncing state ♪
♪ All hail to thee, Merano ♪
♪ Hearty hale Merano ♪
-♪ Any objections? ♪ -♪ Nein! ♪
♪ Where breathing in will turn you on ♪
♪ Where water tastes like wine ♪
♪ Get out your get up and go ♪
♪ And get in line ♪
♪ It's living your life in a show by Rogers and Hammerstein ♪
♪ Oh, sad the soul ♪
♪ Who passes by Merano ♪
♪ Merano! So far no ♪
♪ Soul has ever passed us by ♪
♪ They love us ♪
♪ Why not stay forever? ♪
-♪ Oh, so many reasons why ♪ -♪ All those in favor say "Aye" ♪
♪ Aye! So sing a song ♪
♪ Let's hear it for Merano ♪
♪ Merano! Soprano ♪
-♪ Alto ♪ -♪ Tenor ♪
-♪ Bass agree ♪ -♪ We're wholesome ♪
♪ What a happy haven ♪
♪ This is a place where your arteries soften ♪
♪ Cholesterol hasn't a chance ♪
♪ From mountain to valley the natural goodness ♪
-♪ Is fighting pollution's advance ♪ -♪ So come to us ♪
♪ And feel the force ♪
♪ All major credit cards taken of course ♪
♪ Oh, l get high when l saunter by ♪
♪ The mountains of Merano ♪
♪ Rosy-cheeked Merano ♪
♪ Flourishing to a fault ♪
♪ The sparkling streams, the bracing air ♪
♪ The therapeutic salt ♪
♪ l'd have to be carried away to call a halt! ♪
♪ Once in a while all the gods will smile ♪
♪ On little old Merano ♪
♪ Humble shy Merano ♪
♪ Suddenly hits the press ♪
♪ And l report with all the pride ♪
♪ And joy that l possess ♪
♪ Half of the world and his wife has our address ♪
♪ Our little town will be rife ♪
♪ With games of chess! ♪
♪ Get out your get up and go and get in line ♪
♪ It's living your life in a show ♪
♪ By Rogers and Hammerstein! ♪
♪ What a scene, what a show what a lovely sight ♪
♪ When my game is the big sensation ♪
♪ Has the mob's sporting taste altered overnight? ♪
♪ Have they found new sophistication? ♪
♪ Not yet! They just want to see ♪
♪ If the nice guy beats the bum ♪
♪ If it's East-West ♪
♪ And the money's sky high ♪
♪ They all come ♪
♪ You can raise all you want if you raise the roof ♪
♪ Scream and shout and the gate increases ♪
♪ Break the rules break the bank ♪
♪ l'm the living proof ♪
♪ They don't care how l move my pieces ♪
♪ Well, l know l'm the best there is ♪
♪ But all they want is a show ♪
♪ Well, that's all right ♪
♪ l'll be glad to oblige ♪
♪ SRO, SRO ♪
♪ Oh, l get high when l saunter by ♪
♪ The mountains of Merano ♪
♪ Rosy cheeked Merano ♪
♪ Flourishing to a fault ♪
♪ The sparkling streams, the bracing air ♪
♪ The therapeutic salt ♪
♪ l'd have to be carried away to call a halt! ♪
♪ Oh l feel great in this bouncing state ♪
♪ All hail to thee, Merano ♪
♪ Hearty hale Merano ♪
-♪ Any objections? -♪ Nein! ♪
♪ Where breathing in will turn you on ♪
♪ Where water tastes like wine ♪
♪ Get out your get up and go ♪
♪ And get in line ♪
♪ It's living your life in a show ♪
♪ By Rogers ♪
♪ And Hammerstein ♪
♪ Now for the sell ♪
♪ We put the ice into paradise, we are the salt of the earth ♪
♪ Sound as a bell, check out the waters and check out the hygiene ♪
♪ At which we excel ♪
♪ Check into a hotel ♪
♪ And schnell ♪
♪ Body and soul get well! ♪
♪ Well, we can't complain that you've been ignored by the press ♪
♪ What they say, what they say ♪
-♪ They're not too polite ♪ -♪ They say l'm a shit ♪
Well, yes, they pulled you to pieces--
♪ In five different languages ♪
the "Times":
♪ "You thrive on unpleasantness" ♪
"Le Monde": "Frederick Trumper..♪'
( speaks French)
♪ l don't believe that they can't see my game ♪
♪ l'm like that tennis player what's-his-name ♪
♪ They love to hate me and for us ♪
♪ That's dollars! ♪
( speaks German)
♪ Hey, look, here's a piece that some idiot's written on you ♪
"Florence Vassy: petite Hungarian-born personal assistant.
♪ His gentle companion--" if they only knew ♪
What do you mean? l've always been gentle with you, Freddie.
♪ "She stands by her champion ♪
Oh, l like this.
♪ Whose demands are so infantile" ♪
l don't like this.
♪ If you don't like it then it's up to you ♪
♪ They like the Russian, they could like you too ♪
Commie newspapers!
♪ Of course the bastards all support the Russian ♪
♪ But Sergievsky seems such a sweet opponent ♪
♪ So why do you abuse him all the time? ♪
Freddie, l love you very much, but just for once,
don't go on about the Russians at the press conference, okay?
♪ Does your opponent deserve such abuse? ♪
All Soviets deserve abuse.
♪ But even you must concede he can play ♪
Sure, he's the best Red on the circuit. l'll give him that.
♪ He hasn't lost for a long time ♪
♪ He could be a tough nut to crack ♪
Listen, if he gets one game off me,
it's because l want to keep press interest going.
♪ Why do you persist with vicious attacks ♪
♪ Ungracious remarks re: opponents? ♪
♪ It smacks of a lack of conviction ♪
♪ Admit you're under duress ♪
♪ And that your only skill left ♪
♪ Is for money, not chess ♪
♪ If Soviet life's as grim as you claim ♪
♪ Then how come their boys are so good at the game? ♪
♪ Though you swear the American dream is clearly the best ♪
♪ You're no advertisement for life and times in the West ♪
♪ Why did you risk the whole match breaking down? ♪
l don't know what you're saying. What are you implying?
♪ All your outrageous demands, your conceit ♪
l don't see anything outrageous about demanding what l'm worth.
♪ They pay you all that you ask for and then you demand even more ♪
l am the reason you're all here. Who had heard of Sergievsky?
♪ It's hard to believe what we're reporting ♪
♪ Why so disparaging? Not very sporting ♪
Are the Communists sporting? My God!
♪ Tell all this to the United Nations ♪
♪ Are you an asset to ♪
♪ East-West relations? ♪
What is this? What have the Russians ever done
for East-West relations?
Have you people any serious questions?
♪ Will you be quitting for good if you lose? ♪
♪ How come your second's a girl, lover boy? ♪
What did you say?
♪ How come your second's a girl, lover boy? ♪
♪ Well, what did l say? He's out of his tree ♪
♪ He's finally flipped and between you and me ♪
♪ He's no hope of retaining his crown in his frame of mind ♪
♪ In fact he shouldn't have come here he should have resigned ♪
♪ Smile, you got your first exclusive story ♪
♪ Now you can bask in his ♪
♪ Reflected glory ♪
♪ Naked and provoked ♪
♪ Yankee aggression! ♪
♪ Oh, what a credit to ♪
♪ Your great profession! ♪
♪ Well, what did l say? He's out of his mind ♪
♪ He's finally flipped, he should have resigned. ♪
The man is utterly mad. Believe me, Anatoly,
you're playing a lunatic.
That's the problem. He's a brilliant lunatic
and you can't tell which way he'll jump.
Like his game, he's impossible to analyze.
You can't predict him, dissect him,
which of course means he's not a lunatic at all.
♪ What we've just seen's a pathetic display ♪
♪ From a man who's beginning to crack ♪
♪ He's afraid ♪
♪ He knows he isn't the player he was ♪
♪ And he won't get it back ♪
♪ Nonsense! Why do you people ♪
♪ Always want to believe ♪
♪ Third-rate propaganda? ♪
♪ My friend, please relax ♪
♪ We're all on your side ♪
♪ You know how you need us ♪
♪ l don't need my army of so-called advisors and helpers ♪
♪ To tell me the man who's revitalized chess single-handed ♪
♪ Is more or less out of his brain ♪
♪ When it's very clear he's sane ♪
♪ Listen, we don't underestimate Trumper ♪
♪ We won't get caught in that trap ♪
♪ After all ♪
♪ Winning or losing reflects on us all ♪
♪ Oh, don't give me that crap ♪
♪ l win no one else does ♪
♪ And l take the rap if l lose ♪
♪ It's not quite that simple ♪
♪ The whole world's tuned in ♪
♪ We're all on display ♪
♪ We're not merely sportsmen ♪
♪ Oh, please don't start spouting that old party line ♪
♪ Yes l know it's your job ♪
♪ But just get out and get me my chess-playing second ♪
♪ In 36 hours we begin ♪
♪ That is if you want to win! ♪
Wanting is not sufficient. We have to know.
We have to make sure.
All men have a weakness. His is that woman.
Take her, and you win the game.
So you think l can't win otherwise?
l'm not saying that.
l'm just making certain.
And she is attractive.
Then there's her intriguing family history--
Hungary, 1956 and all that.
l'm a chess player, Mr. Molokov.
You go and play these other games.
♪ Who needs a dream? ♪
♪ Who needs ambition? ♪
♪ Who'd be the fool ♪
♪ In my position? ♪
♪ Once l had dreams ♪
♪ Now they're obsessions ♪
♪ Hopes became needs ♪
♪ Lovers possessions ♪
♪ Then they move in ♪
♪ Oh so discreetly ♪
♪ Slowly at first ♪
♪ Smiling too sweetly ♪
♪ l opened doors ♪
♪ They walked right through them ♪
♪ Called me their friend ♪
♪ l hardly knew them ♪
♪ Now l'm where l want to be and who l want to be ♪
♪ And doing all l ever said l would and yet ♪
♪ l feel l haven't won at all ♪
♪ Running for my life and never looking back ♪
♪ In case there's someone right behind to shoot me down ♪
♪ And say he always knew l'd fall ♪
♪ When the crazy wheel ♪
♪ Slows down ♪
♪ Where will l be? ♪
♪ Back where l started ♪
♪ No, don't get me wrong ♪
♪ l'm not complaining ♪
♪ Times have been good ♪
♪ Fast, entertaining ♪
♪ But what's the point ♪
♪ If l'm concealing ♪
♪ Not only love ♪
♪ All other feeling? ♪
♪ Now l'm where l want to be and who l want to be ♪
♪ And doing all l ever said l would and yet ♪
♪ l feel l haven't won at all ♪
♪ l'm running for my life and never looking back ♪
♪ In case there's someone right behind to shoot me down ♪
♪ And say he always knew l'd fall ♪
♪ When the crazy wheel ♪
♪ Slows down ♪
♪ Where will l be? ♪
♪ Back where l started. ♪
Comrade Molokov tells me you want to play chess.
Go to hell.
♪ No one can deny ♪
♪ That these are difficult times ♪
♪ No one can deny ♪
♪ That these are difficult times ♪
- Miss Vassy. - Mr. Molokov.
♪ It's the U.S. versus U.S.S.R. ♪
-♪ Yet we more or less are ♪ -♪ No one can deny ♪
♪ That these are difficult times ♪
♪ To our credit putting all that aside ♪
-♪ We have swallowed our pride ♪ -♪ These are very dangerous ♪
♪ And difficult times ♪
♪ It really doesn't matter who comes out on top ♪
♪ Who gets the chop ♪
♪ No one's way of life is threatened by a flop ♪
♪ But we're gonna smash the bastard ♪
♪ Make him wanna change his name ♪
♪ Take him to the cleaners and devastate him ♪
♪ Wipe him out, humiliate him. ♪
♪ We don't want the whole world saying ♪
♪ They can't even win a game ♪
♪ We have never reckoned on coming second ♪
♪ There's no use in losing ♪
♪ It's the red flag up against stars and stripes ♪
♪ But we're peace-loving types ♪
♪ No one can deny that these are difficult times ♪
♪ It's a sweet hail-fellow-well-met affair ♪
♪ For both eagle and bear ♪
♪ These are very dangerous and difficult times ♪
♪ For those who say that this is not a friendly clash ♪
♪ Don't be so rash ♪
♪ l assure you, comrades, that is balderdash ♪
♪ What a load of whingeing peasants! ♪
♪ Thinking they can win-- they can't! ♪
♪ What an exhibition of self-delusion ♪
♪ This one's a foregone conclusion ♪
♪ But enough of all this beating ♪
♪ Round the bushes of detente ♪
♪ We intend to collar the Yankee dollar ♪
♪ We shall thrash them ♪
♪ Trash them ♪
♪ How good to feel that as this great event begins ♪
♪ It underpins ♪
♪ Our quest for peace ♪
♪ The bonds of common interest ♪
♪ Of East and West ♪
♪ As long as ♪
♪ Our man wins ♪
♪ As long as ♪
♪ Our man ♪
♪ Wins. ♪
♪ l've a duty as a referee ♪
♪ At the start of a match ♪
♪ On behalf of all our sponsors l must welcome you ♪
♪ Which l do-- there's a catch ♪
♪ l don't care if you're a champion ♪
♪ No one messes with me ♪
♪ l am ruthless in upholding what l know is right ♪
♪ Black or white, as you'll see ♪
♪ l'm on the case can't be fooled ♪
♪ Any objection is overruled ♪
♪ Yes, l'm the Arbiter and l know best ♪
♪ He's impartial, don't push him ♪
-♪ He's unimpressed ♪ -♪ You got your tricks ♪
♪ Good for you ♪
♪ But there's no gambit l don't see through ♪
♪ Oh, l'm the Arbiter l know the score ♪
♪ From square one l'll be watching all 64 ♪
♪ If you're thinking of the kind of thing ♪
♪ That we've seen in the past ♪
♪ Chanting gurus, walkie-talkies, walkouts, hypnotists ♪
♪ Tempers, fists, not so fast ♪
♪ This is not the start of World War Three ♪
♪ No political ploys ♪
♪ l think both your constitutions are terrific so ♪
♪ Now you know, be good boys ♪
♪ l'm on the case can't be fooled ♪
♪ Any objection is overruled ♪
♪ Yes, l'm the Arbiter and l know best ♪
♪ He's impartial, don't push him, ♪
-♪ He's unimpressed ♪ -♪ You got your tricks ♪
♪ Good for you ♪
♪ But there's no gambit l don't see through ♪
♪ Oh, l'm the Arbiter l know the score ♪
♪ From square one ♪
♪ l'll be watching all 64 ♪
♪ Oh l'm the Arbiter l know the score ♪
♪ From square one ♪
♪ l'll be watching all 64. ♪
And now let us dedicate ourselves
to the spirit of chess.
♪ We are one united family, ♪
♪ Black and white ♪
♪ The game ♪
♪ Our one true guiding light ♪
♪ Sweeping through the darkest corners ♪
♪ To express ♪
♪ Countries, classes, creeds ♪
♪ As one, in love ♪
♪ Of chess. ♪
♪ Whether you are pro or anti ♪
♪ Or could not care less ♪
♪ We are here to tell you ♪
♪ We are here to sell you chess ♪
♪ Not a chance of you escaping ♪
♪ From our wiles ♪
♪ We've locked the doors ♪
♪ We've blocked the aisles ♪
♪ We've a franchise worth exploiting ♪
♪ And we will yes we will! ♪
♪ When it comes to merchandising ♪
♪ We could kill ♪
♪ When you get up ♪
♪ When you get up in the morning ♪
♪ Till your bedtime book ♪
♪ You will have to live your life ♪
♪ With bishop, knight and rook ♪
♪ Clean your teeth with checkered toothpaste ♪
♪ Wear our vests ♪
♪ Our kings and queens on bouncing breasts ♪
♪ You could even buy a set ♪
♪ And learn to play ♪
♪ We don't mind we'll sell you something ♪
♪ Anyway ♪
♪ We've done all our market research ♪
♪ And our findings show ♪
♪ That this game of chess will be around a month or so ♪
♪ Maybe it's a bit confusing for a game ♪
♪ But Rubik's Cubes were much the same ♪
♪ In the end the whole world bought one ♪
♪ All were gone ♪
♪ By which time we merchandisers ♪
♪ Had moved on! ♪
This is Walter de Courcy reporting live for Global Television.
The opening match of the 1979 World Chess Championship
is about to begin here in Merano, Italy.
The title will go to the first man who wins six games.
The players are the champ,ion from the United States
Frederick "Freddie" Trumper,
and the challenger from the Soviet Union
Anatoly Sergievsky.
The political overtones of such a match between a Russian and an American
have created a great deal of media attention from around the world.
And they're off.
There has been a sensational development
in the very first game of the World Chess Championship
here in the snow-covered Tyrollean town of Merano, Italy.
The board and pieces have been thrown to the ground in disgust
by one or other or both of the players.
The world champion Freddie Trumper
has stormed out in a rage.
It looks personal.
Trumper has demanded that Sergievsky apologize
for making him walk out.
Unless someone bangs their heads together,
the championship could be abandoned
after just one game.
Walter de Courcy for Global Television.
♪ l'm on the case ♪
♪ Can't be fooled ♪
♪ Any objection ♪
♪ Is overruled ♪
♪ Don't try to tempt me ♪
♪ You've no hope ♪
♪ l don't like women ♪
♪ And l don't take dope ♪
♪ l'm the Arbiter my word is law ♪
♪ From square one ♪
♪ From square one l'll be watching you. ♪
♪ We wish, no must ♪
♪ Make our disgust ♪
♪ With this abuse ♪
♪ Perfectly clear ♪
♪ We're here for chess ♪
♪ Are the U.S.? ♪
♪ If so, why foul the atmosphere? ♪
♪ l must protest ♪
♪ Our delegation has a host of valid points to raise ♪
♪ It's not just black and white, if l may coin a phrase ♪
♪ As any neutral would attest ♪
♪ But we concede ♪
♪ The fact his masters bend the rules ♪
♪ Is not your player's fault ♪
♪ We'll overlook your crude political assault ♪
♪ And under protest will proceed ♪
♪ If your man's so sweet ♪
♪ Then why his fighting talk? ♪
♪ If he's not a cheat ♪
♪ Then why on earth ♪
♪ Did he go take a walk? ♪
-♪ l am not surprised ♪ -♪ Why let him loose? ♪
-♪ He wanted fresher air ♪ -♪ He'll soon reduce ♪
-♪ Once he realized ♪ -♪ This great event ♪
♪ There was no hope ♪
-♪ In your lot playing fair ♪ -♪ To a brawl ♪
-♪ How sad to see ♪ -♪ It's very sad to see the ancient ♪
♪ And distinguished game that used to be ♪
♪ A model of decorum and tranquillity ♪
♪ Become like any other sport ♪
♪ A battleground for rival ideologies ♪
♪ To slug it out with glee ♪
♪ l would say with regard to ♪
♪ Him, it is hard to rebut ♪
♪ Ever-growing suspicions ♪
♪ My opposition's a nut ♪
♪ l would have said you understand ♪
♪ The strain and pressure getting where he's got ♪
♪ For then you'd simply call him highly strung ♪
♪ And not imply that he was off his head ♪
♪ But how on earth can someone ♪
♪ Even half as civilized and nice as you ♪
♪ Be part of such a self-destructive point of view? ♪
♪ l hope he pays you what you're worth ♪
-♪ l'm not getting rich ♪ -♪ Okay, we'll rise ♪
-♪ My only interest is ♪ -♪ Above your guy's ♪
-♪ In something which ♪ -♪ Tantrums ♪
-♪ Gives me the chance ♪ -♪ Dramas ♪
-♪ Of working with the best ♪ -♪ l can only say ♪
♪ l hope your dream comes true ♪
♪ Till that far-off day ♪
♪ l hope you cope ♪
♪ With helping number two ♪
-♪ How sad ♪ -♪ It's very sad to see ♪
-♪ To see ♪ -♪ The ancient and distinguished ♪
♪ Game that used to be ♪
♪ A model of decorum and tranquillity ♪
♪ Become like any other sport ♪
♪ A battleground for rival ideologies ♪
♪ To slug it out with glee ♪
-♪ It's so sad to see ♪ -♪ It is very sad ♪
♪ A game that really should be ♪
♪ Like a model of decorum ♪
♪ Become just like any other sport ♪
♪ A battleground for rival ideologies ♪
-♪ So sad ♪ -♪ Sad, so sad ♪
♪ The ancient and distinguished game that used to be ♪
♪ A model of decorum and tranquillity ♪
♪ Become just like any other sport ♪
♪ A battleground for rival ideologies... ♪
-♪ A battleground ♪ -♪ So sad to see a game ♪
♪ To slug it out with glee! ♪
Enough!
If the players do not return to the arena within 24 hours
the match is null and void.
The game is greater than its players.
The game is greater than its players, Miss Vassy.
How true.
♪ l don't know how you can allow ♪
♪ This harm to be done to chess ♪
♪ And how this baby of yours can be persuaded back to the game ♪
Easy. You stop playing politics and you start playing chess.
♪ l don't know how you have the gall to ♪
♪ Criticize us when it is all too obvious ♪
♪ This is what you wanted ♪
♪ We get the blame ♪
Your man, following orders,
was planning some sort of bust-up from the word go.
♪ You really are mad, he has no orders ♪
♪ Now let me put my cards upon your table ♪
♪ If he is aggrieved then who can blame him? ♪
♪ He is up against a man who's less than stable ♪
♪ Who rocked his chair throughout the match then? ♪
♪ Who sniffed and coughed, began to scratch, then ♪
♪ Played with his flag and tapped his fingers ♪
♪ Then took a walk? Your precious boy ♪
♪ Listen, you plutocratic throwback ♪
♪ You and your cronies want to go back ♪
♪ Home to your Dachas, not the salt mines? ♪
♪ We better talk ♪
- l wish, Florienz-- - Florence.
Florence
you would refrain from cheap political jibe
at a time when cooperation between us is vital.
Besides, l would have thought you'd be reluctant
to criticize fellow Eastern European.
Fellow Eastern Europeans!
l was born a Hungarian.
Do you remember Hungary?
l wish l could.
l was only five when you bastards moved in.
l have no memory of my homeland--
my mother, my father, my people--
all taken from me by you.
♪ And you call yourself a fellow Eastern European! ♪
♪ Come now, Miss Vassy, we're digressing ♪
♪ Back to the point, let's start addressing ♪
♪ All our attention to the World Chess Championship ♪
Oh, cut the crap. They have to meet.
If you deliver Anatoly,, l will deliver Freddie
at the Merano Mountain Inn
famous for its peace and tranquillity.
That's where l'll do the business.
We'll do the business.
l'll do the business.
Yeah, but Global will still have to pay me.
Our deal was $20,000 a game to play, not to have tantrums!
l shouldn't be dealing with this.
- Where have you been? - Saving your hide as usual.
You have a meeting with Anatoly at the Mountain Inn.
- Anatoly? - Anatoly?
Walter, leave us.
All right.
So now it's Anatoly.
Since when did you two become such good friends?
Wonderful, a traitor in my own camp.
- Whose side are you on? - l'm on your side.
♪ So you're saying that l ought to meet him ♪
-♪ On the top of a mountain? ♪ - You bet!
Can't you see that you're losing your grip, dear?
♪ Are the Communists fooling you too? ♪
♪ Why should l be the only one trying? ♪
♪ Wanna lose your only friend? Well, keep it up, you're doing fine ♪
♪ Why this humiliation? ♪
♪ Why treat me like a fool? ♪
♪ l've taken shit for seven years and l won't take it any more ♪
♪ l'm only teasing Soviets ♪
♪ With gentle bonhomie ♪
♪ And you've a better reason to be anti-them than me ♪
♪ There's a time and there's a place ♪
Well, how about here and now? Are you for me or are you for them?
♪ There's a time and there's a place ♪
♪ 1956-- Budapest is rising ♪
♪ 1956-- Budapest is rising.
♪ l'd have thought you'd support any attack ♪
-♪ On these people ♪ -♪ 1956-- Budapest is rising ♪
♪ On the people who ran ♪
♪ Mindlessly over your childhood ♪
♪ Don't let them fool you for 30 years on ♪
-♪ They're the same ♪ -♪ 1956-- Budapest is fighting ♪
-♪ 1956-- Budapest is falling ♪ -♪ They see chess as a war ♪
♪ Playing with pawns just like Poland ♪
-♪ 1956-- Budapest is dying ♪ -♪ If you walk out on me ♪
♪ You're really betraying your father ♪
♪ Were he alive now he'd surely be ♪
♪ Dying of shame ♪
♪ You know that there's nothing l've done ♪
♪ That he'd be ashamed of ♪
♪ In my whole life! ♪
♪ Why'd you have to do this to me? ♪
♪ What's going on around me ♪
♪ Is barely making sense ♪
♪ l need some explanations fast ♪
♪ l see my present partner ♪
♪ In the imperfect tense ♪
♪ And l don't see how we can last ♪
♪ l feel l need a change of cast ♪
♪ Maybe l'm on nobody's side ♪
♪ And when he gives me reasons ♪
♪ To justify each move ♪
♪ They're getting harder to believe ♪
♪ l know this can't continue ♪
♪ l've still a lot to prove ♪
♪ There must be more l could achieve ♪
♪ But l don't have the nerve to leave ♪
♪ Everybody's playing the game ♪
♪ But nobody's rules are the same ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
♪ Better learn to go it alone ♪
♪ Recognize you're out on your own.
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
♪ The one l should not think of ♪
♪ Keeps rolling through my mind ♪
♪ And l don't want to let that go ♪
♪ No lover's ever faithful ♪
♪ No contract truly signed ♪
♪ There's nothing certain left to know ♪
♪ And how the cracks begin to show! ♪
♪ Never make a promise or plan ♪
♪ Take a little love where you can ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
♪ Never stay too long in your bed ♪
♪ Never lose your heart, use your head ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
♪ Never take a stranger's advice ♪
♪ Never let a friend fool you twice ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
♪ Never be the first to believe ♪
♪ Never be the last to deceive ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
♪ Never leave a moment too soon ♪
♪ Never waste a hot afternoon ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
-♪ Never stay too long ♪ -♪ Never stay a minute too long ♪
♪ Don't forget the best will go wrong ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side. ♪
♪ This is the one situation ♪
♪ l wanted most to avoid ♪
♪ Nothing l say will convince him ♪
♪ This isn't a trick ♪
♪ A drink on a clear moonlit night ♪
♪ l relax, she smiles ♪
♪ There's something peculiar going on ♪
♪ So through no fault of my own ♪
♪ l'm stuck here to carry the can ♪
♪ Embarrassed uncertain, marooned ♪
♪ Now she can't be working for them-- ♪
♪ l mean us-- ♪
♪ She seems to know what she's doing ♪
-♪ But where is he? ♪ -♪ He ♪
♪ Has to turn up ♪
♪ He wanted this meeting didn't he? ♪
♪ Maybe he's scared ♪
♪ But he didn't seem scared in the game ♪
♪ Oh, l just couldn't care less ♪
♪ He can go right ahead, go and wreck his career ♪
♪ l know l've done my best ♪
♪ Well, at least she's a good-looking spy ♪
♪ What if my Russian friend thinks that my plans ♪
♪ Are more of an intimate kind? ♪
♪ If l don't say something and soon ♪
♪ He'll go ♪
♪ Maybe l'm on nobody's side! ♪
♪ Listen, l hate to break up the mood ♪
♪ Get to the point ♪
♪ Begin the beguine ♪
♪ Haven't you noticed we are a protagonist short ♪
♪ In this idyllic, well-produced scene? ♪
♪ He couldn't wait to join you up here ♪
♪ Maybe he walked ♪
♪ Cable cars scare him ♪
♪ Never mind him l haven't missed him so far ♪
♪ Maybe it won't do any harm ♪
♪ To struggle on without his charm ♪
♪ Funny how all at once l feel ♪
♪ That he can go jump off the mountain ♪
♪ l won't care ♪
♪ This is the one situation ♪
♪ l wanted most to avoid ♪
♪ My dear opponent ♪
♪ l really can't imagine why ♪
♪ So l am not dangerous then? ♪
♪ What a shame ♪
♪ No, you're not dangerous ♪
♪ Who could think that of you? ♪
♪ You are so strange ♪
♪ Why can't you be what you want to be? ♪
♪ You should be scheming, intriguing ♪
♪ Too clever by half ♪
♪ l have to hand it to you ♪
♪ For you've managed to make me forget ♪
♪ Why l ever agreed to this farce ♪
♪ l don't know why l can't think of anything ♪
♪ l would rather do ♪
♪ Than be wasting my time ♪
♪ On mountains with you ♪
♪ Who'd ever think it? Such a very pretty setting ♪
♪ Tell me what's the betting ♪
♪ Very pretty plotting too ♪
♪ No matter-- l've done all your work for you ♪
Freddie.
♪ Who'd ever guess it? Daughter in collaboration ♪
♪ With the very nation gave her father the third degree ♪
♪ Where's Daddy, dead, or in the K.G.B.? ♪
While my second has been curling up with my opponent,
l have agreed to new terms with Global Television
which in short means more money-- for you as well,
but that can't be helped.
Therefore this meeting is unnecessary.
The match can continue and we don't have to be friends.
Ladies and gentlemen,
l have succeeded in bringing the players back to the table.
l remind you, the first to win six games will be world champion.
At the end of today's session
the challenger Sergievsky
leads five wins to one.
Five games to one.
lt's all over.
♪ So you've got what you want ♪
♪ What nasty ambition ♪
♪ Set me up, pull me down ♪
♪ Then exploit my condition ♪
♪ l should have guessed, woman ♪
♪ That if pressed, woman ♪
♪ You're on nobody's side but your own ♪
♪ And you're behaving like a mere woman ♪
♪ It's so clear, woman ♪
♪ It's your sex! Once they start ♪
♪ Getting old and getting worried ♪
♪ They let fly, take it out ♪
♪ On the one who supports them ♪
♪ That's you l'm talking about ♪
♪ Who'd ever guess it? Such a squalid little ending ♪
♪ Watching you descending ♪
♪ Just as far as you can go ♪
♪ l'm learning things l didn't want to know ♪
♪ Who'd ever think it? This would be the situation ♪
♪ One more observation ♪
♪ How'd we ever get this far before you showed me ♪
♪ What you really are? ♪
♪ You'll be lost without me ♪
♪ To abuse like you're used to ♪
♪ Go away! Just get out! ♪
♪ Be someone else's parasite! ♪
♪ l'm not the kind to be vindictive ♪
♪ Holding some childish grudge ♪
♪ How can l be? ♪
♪ l'm in the spotlight ♪
♪ Half of the world my judge ♪
♪ All l demand is those l work for ♪
♪ Those l give all my skills ♪
♪ All my time and pain ♪
♪ Those that l entertain ♪
♪ Give me the same compassion in return ♪
♪ But the fools never learn. ♪
Frederick Trumper has conceded the match.
Anatoly Sergievsky is the new world champion!
The drama at the World Chess Championship
here in Merano, Italy is now off the board.
Barely had Anatoly Sergievsky been proclaimed
the new world champion when he upstaged his own triumph
by deserting his Soviet team.
l hear he is now seeking asylum in the West--
and this is incredible--
with the help of Trumper's own second, Florence Vassy.
♪ Oh my dear how boring, he's defecting ♪
♪ Just like all the others he's expecting ♪
♪ Us to be impressed with what he's done here ♪
♪ But he hasn't stopped to think about the paperwork his gesture causes ♪
♪ We've an embassy to run here ♪
♪ If these people can't strike blows for freedom ♪
♪ With a valid visa we don't need 'em ♪
♪ If we seem offhand then please remember ♪
♪ This is nothing very special ♪
♪ He's the fourth we've had since last November ♪
♪ Who do these foreign chappies think they are? ♪
♪ And when he's ♪
♪ Safely in the West he'll be the subject to discuss ♪
♪ The media will lionize him fame and fortune plus ♪
♪ No one will recall it's thanks to us ♪
- You have a wife? - Yes.
- You have two children? - Yes.
- And they're not coming with you? - No, not for the moment.
You play chess. You are good at it?
Oh. l hear you're world champion.
Since yesterday.
That's still good.
♪ Have you an appointment with the consul? ♪
♪ If you don't we know what his response will be ♪
♪ He will not see you-- with respect it buggers up ♪
♪ His very taxing schedule ♪
♪ Pushing peace and understanding ♪
♪ Let's just hope this won't affect it ♪
♪ Far too many jokers cross the border ♪
♪ Not a single document in order ♪
♪ Russia must be empty though we're all for basic human rights ♪
♪ It makes you wonder what they built the Berlin Wall for ♪
♪ Who do these foreign chappies think they are? ♪
♪ And when you've ♪
♪ Filled in all the forms and been passed clear of all disease ♪
♪ Debriefed, debugged, dedrugged, disarmed ♪
♪ And disinfected please ♪
♪ Don't forget the guys who cut your keys. ♪
♪ If it were love ♪
♪ l would give that love every second l had ♪
♪ And l do ♪
♪ Do l know where he'll lead me to? ♪
♪ Did l plan ♪
♪ Doing all of this for the love of a man? ♪
♪ Well, l let it happen anyhow ♪
♪ And what l'm feeling now ♪
♪ Has no easy explanation ♪
♪ Reason plays no part ♪
♪ Heaven help my heart ♪
♪ l love him too much ♪
♪ What if he saw my whole existence ♪
♪ Turning around a word ♪
♪ A smile ♪
♪ A touch? ♪
♪ One of these days and it won't be long ♪
♪ He'll know more about me ♪
♪ Than he should ♪
♪ All my dreams will be understood ♪
♪ No surprise ♪
♪ Nothing more to learn ♪
♪ From the look in my eyes ♪
♪ Don't you know that time is not my friend? ♪
♪ l'll fight it to the end ♪
♪ Hoping to keep that best of moments ♪
♪ When the passions start ♪
♪ Heaven help my heart ♪
♪ The day that l find ♪
♪ Suddenly l've run out of secrets ♪
♪ Suddenly l'm not always ♪
♪ On his mind ♪
♪ Maybe it's best ♪
♪ To love a stranger ♪
♪ Well, that's what l've done ♪
♪ Heaven help my heart ♪
♪ Heaven help ♪
♪ My heart. ♪
Excuse me, Mr. Sergievsky,
why are you leaving Russia?
What about your wife and family?
♪ How long was this planned? What made you defect? ♪
♪ Did anyone help you? And do you expect ♪
♪ To be joined in your exile by loved ones, e.g. your wife? ♪
♪ Or are you starting again in all aspects of life? ♪
Will you be defending your title next year in Bangkok?
Walter, you bastard, you never told me
you and Global would fix all this!
Welcome to the West, Anatoly.
Why did you leave Russia?
l don't leave anything!
♪ No man, no madness ♪
♪ Though their sad power may prevail ♪
♪ Can possess, conquer my country's heart ♪
♪ They rise to fail ♪
♪ She is eternal ♪
♪ Long before nations' lines were drawn ♪
♪ When no flags flew ♪
♪ When no armies stood ♪
♪ My land was born ♪
♪ And you ask me why l love her ♪
♪ Through wars, death, and despair ♪
♪ She is the constant ♪
♪ We who don't care ♪
♪ And you wonder ♪
♪ Will l leave her ♪
♪ But how? ♪
♪ l cross over borders ♪
♪ But l'm still ♪
♪ There now ♪
♪ How could l leave her? ♪
♪ Where would l start? ♪
♪ Let man's petty nations ♪
♪ Tear themselves apart ♪
♪ My land's only borders ♪
♪ Lie around ♪
♪ My heart. ♪
♪ Bangkok! Oriental setting ♪
♪ And the city don't know what the city is getting ♪
♪ The créme de la créme of the chess world ♪
♪ In a show with everything but Yul Brynner ♪
♪ Time flies! Doesn't seem a minute ♪
♪ Since the Tyrollean spa had the chess boys in it ♪
♪ All change! But don't you know that when you ♪
♪ Play at this level it's no ordinary venue ♪
♪ It's Iceland or the Philippines ♪
♪ Or Hastings or this place ♪
♪ One night in Bangkok and your world's your oyster ♪
♪ The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free ♪
♪ You'll find a god in every golden cloister ♪
♪ And if you're lucky then the god's a she ♪
♪ l can feel an angel sliding up to me ♪
♪ One town's very like another ♪
♪ When your head's down over your pieces, brother ♪
-♪ It's a drag ♪ -♪ It's a bore ♪
♪ It's really such a pity to be looking at the board ♪
♪ Not looking at the city ♪
♪ What do you mean? ♪
♪ You've seen one crowded polluted, stinking town, you've'-- ♪
♪ Tea, girls, warm, sweet ♪
♪ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham Suite ♪
♪ Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist ♪
♪ Whose every move's among the purest ♪
♪ l get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine ♪
♪ One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble ♪
♪ Not much between despair and ecstasy ♪
♪ One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble ♪
♪ Can't be too careful with your company ♪
♪ l can feel the devil walking next to me ♪
♪ Siam's gonna be the witness ♪
♪ To the ultimate test in cerebral fitness ♪
♪ This grips me more than would a muddy old river ♪
♪ Or reclining Buddha ♪
♪ Thank God l'm only watching the game, controlling it ♪
♪ l don't see you guys rating ♪
♪ The kind of mate l'm contemplating ♪
♪ l'd let you watch, l would invite you ♪
♪ But the queens we use would not excite you ♪
♪ So you better go back to your bars ♪
♪ Your temples ♪
♪ Your massage parlors ♪
♪ One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster ♪
♪ The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free ♪
♪ You'll find a god in every golden cloister ♪
♪ A little flesh a little history ♪
♪ l can feel an angel sliding up to me ♪
♪ One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble ♪
♪ Not much between despair and ecstasy ♪
♪ One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble ♪
♪ Can't be too careful with your company ♪
♪ l can feel the devil walking next to me. ♪
Welcome back for more from Bangkok, Thailand.
This is Walter de Courcy reporting for Global Television.
And now a few words from the ex-champ,
who needs no introduction.
Thank you, Walter.
The all-Russian struggle for world chess supremacy
is well underway here in this steamy city.
Both players may be Russian, but this is a titanic battle
between East and West.
Anatoly Sergievsky, the current world champion
is now a British citizen
having defected to the free world when he beat me last year.
It's honors even so far with the match two games old.
In the first game, Sergievsky was inspired,
and his Soviet opponent, Leonid Viigand,
played like a man petrified, awestruck.
But in the second game Sergievsky seemed troubled,
distracted, and Viigand sneaked a subtle victory.
You know, Walter l'm quite glad l retired.
- This is Walter de Courcy and-- - Frederick Trumper--
on behalf of Global Television.
♪ But why is he really here? ♪
♪ A whole year of silence and suddenly here he is ♪
He's working for Global. It's big money.
♪ So that's all it is, then? ♪
♪ He has no desire to see you anymore? ♪
♪ Who cares what he's up to? ♪
♪ You're not playing him ♪
♪ Oh no? ♪
♪ l've the feeling l am ♪
Why is he here?
♪ Don't talk yourself out of form ♪
♪ Viigand's the one you have to beat ♪
-♪ And he's a fine player ♪ -♪ Predictable-- he's a machine ♪
Yes, a very fine machine.
♪ So are you ♪
♪ So are we ♪
♪ But there is one other thing ♪
What?
♪ l gather Svetlana is planning to come out here ♪
My wife? Come to Bangkok? No.
You must know about it.
♪ It's been in the papers, they may let her out ♪
♪ This has to be Molokov ♪
♪ Right up his street ♪
♪ So now you've got ♪
♪ One more opponent to beat ♪
♪ Surely you knew ♪
♪ l did not ♪
♪ Well, this is a problem we knew we'd be facing soon ♪
But not now. Not now.
♪ This is an all-too-familiar scene ♪
♪ Life imperceptibly coming between ♪
♪ Those whose love is as strong ♪
♪ As it could or should be ♪
♪ Nothing has altered ♪
♪ Yet everything's changed ♪
♪ No one stands still ♪
♪ Still l love you completely ♪
♪ And hope l always will ♪
♪ Each day we get through means one less mistake ♪
♪ Left for the making ♪
♪ And there's no return ♪
♪ As we slowly learn ♪
♪ Of the chances we're taking ♪
♪ l'd give the world to stay just as we are ♪
♪ It's better by far ♪
♪ Not to be too wise ♪
♪ Not to realize ♪
♪ Where there's truth ♪
♪ There will be lies ♪
♪ You and l ♪
♪ We've seen it all ♪
♪ Been down this road before ♪
♪ Yet we go on believing ♪
♪ You ♪
♪ You and l ♪
♪ We've seen it all ♪
♪ Chasing our hearts' desire ♪
♪ Yet l still think l'm certain ♪
♪ This time it will be ♪
♪ My happy ending. ♪
Thank you.
It's from Molokov.
You were right. She's here.
Landed from Moscow this morning.
Bastards.
Comrades, why are you looking so worried?
We are not dealing with the traitor Sergievsky now.
Comrade Viigand is a disciplined
Soviet chess-playing machine.
♪ Just in case you feel a trace ♪
♪ Of doubt or even nervous tension ♪
♪ Let me draw the latest score ♪
♪ To your attention ♪
♪ Not the score the witless corps ♪
♪ Of commentators are debating ♪
♪ Come, admit who gives a shit ♪
♪ For ELO rating? ♪
♪ No, l prefer and l'm sure you concur ♪
♪ To see who's ahead psychologically ♪
♪ For example, we have on tap an inscrutable chap ♪
♪ Whose thoughts never stray
♪ From the state of the play ♪
♪ Viigand! ♪
♪ Whereas-- ♪
♪ It's so difficult to concentrate ♪
♪ If you have left your native country ♪
♪ For a woman who has plans of her own ♪
♪ It's not easy for a chap to excel ♪
♪ Feeling guilty as hell ♪
♪ Having left his wife to face the music alone ♪
♪ But even worse imagine if his ladies met ♪
♪ Well then, l'll bet ♪
♪ The atmosphere round here would be a little strained ♪
♪ As he explained ♪
♪ How could he do what he's done to those two ♪
♪ Most wonderful girls? "Yes, l love you both" ♪
-♪ Most amusing! ♪ -♪ Starting from scratch ♪
♪ They'll torpedo his match ♪
♪ His horsepower dead on the board and in bed ♪
♪ Bit by bit the pieces fit ♪
♪ The Soviet machine advances ♪
♪ Not one move that won't improve ♪
♪ Our nation's chances ♪
♪ We predict a stunning victory ♪
♪ Both on the board and off it ♪
♪ This will show the traitor ♪
♪ No one rats with profit ♪
♪ Oh we're gonna smash that bastard ♪
♪ Make him want to change his name ♪
♪ Take him to the cleaners and devastate him ♪
♪ Wipe him out, humiliate him ♪
♪ We don't want the whole world saying ♪
♪ They can't even win a game ♪
♪ We have never reckoned on coming second ♪
♪ There's no use in ♪
♪ Losing ♪
♪ We can feel the flame of triumph burning ♪
-♪ Our people's pride returning ♪ -♪ Bit by bit the pieces fit ♪
♪ The Soviet machine advances ♪
♪ Not one move that won't improve ♪
♪ Our nation's chances ♪
♪ Hoy! ♪
♪ No, l prefer, and l'm sure you concur ♪
♪ To see who's ahead psychologically ♪
♪ For example ♪
♪ We have on tap an inscrutable chap ♪
♪ Whose thoughts never stray ♪
♪ From the state of the play ♪
♪ Bit by bit the pieces fit ♪
♪ The Soviet machine advances ♪
♪ Not one move that won't improve our nation's chances ♪
♪ We predict a stunning victory ♪
♪ Both on the board and off it ♪
♪ This will show the traitor no one rats with profit ♪
♪ From ♪
♪ Moscow to the Bering Strait ♪
♪ Citizens will hail our victory ♪
♪ In Arctic circles ♪
♪ Frozen states ♪
♪ We'll join with warmer climes ♪
♪ In revelry ♪
♪ And l can say of this affair ♪
♪ l was there ♪
♪ Did my share ♪
♪ Played my part ♪
♪ And comrades all ♪
♪ Will be aware ♪
♪ l was ♪
♪ There ♪
♪ From the start. ♪
Tonight's final item is a Global scoop.
The former champion, our Freddie Trumper,
talks to Anatoly Sergievsky, the man who beat him a year ago
and who is defending his title here right now
in Bangkok, Thailand.
Let's get that Sergievsky family video lined up, okay?
Okay.
♪ We all want times in our careers ♪
♪ When we make a little history ♪
♪ Receive the plaudits of our peers ♪
♪ Perhaps that time is here right now for me ♪
♪ Ah, Anatoly, if l may ♪
♪ Let me say right away ♪
♪ You'll be thrilled ♪
♪ Because the other seat is filled ♪
♪ By a long-standing ♪
♪ Friend of yours. ♪
Action!
♪ Well, here we are face to face once again ♪
♪ By any standards, a bizarre reunion ♪
♪ Is being homeless affecting your game? ♪
♪ l wouldn't know as l've a home in England ♪
♪ No, by a home l mean real home ♪
♪ The place where your family is ♪
England is my real home.
♪ What are your latest political aims? ♪
♪ What are you saying? ♪
♪ Your anti-Russian crusade-- has it worked? ♪
♪ l'm no crusader ♪
♪ What is your true motivation? ♪
♪ That's something we all want to know ♪
You know damn well what my motivation is, okay?
♪ Here we see a man under great pressure ♪
♪ Two fights to fight yet he ♪
♪ Could not look fresher ♪
♪ Chess and politics ♪
♪ l take my hat off ♪
♪ To any champion ♪
♪ Who can pull that off ♪
♪ l hear your second controls everything ♪
♪ Chess is her passion ♪
♪ But her obsession is East versus West ♪
♪ Chess is her passion ♪
♪ l know a little about her and she's got her own ax to grind ♪
That's not true.
♪ Aren't you concerned that your wife's not here? ♪
♪ l don't discuss my private life in public ♪
♪ But don't you care that she's not by your side? ♪
♪ l think l've had enough of this discussion ♪
♪ Well, we've a little surprise ♪
♪ We've got your wife on the video ♪
Run the video.
♪ Let her talk to you ♪
♪ Give you her version ♪
♪ How married life has changed ♪
♪ Since your desertion ♪
♪ Hey, come back, my friend ♪
♪ We're only showing ♪
♪ Home movies, nothing more ♪
♪ Where are you going? ♪
Great interview!
Bravo, Mr. de Courcy--
Walter.
Ah, Alexander.
l'm glad that old film did the trick.
We are going to be able to help each other.
Heartwarming international cooperation.
l have good news about Anatoly's lady friend.
Florence Vassy's father is alive.
Really? Well, this is good news. Have you told her yet?
No, l was going to leave that pleasure to you.
However, my friend, there is one thing.
Yes, of course there is.
l think Mr. Sergievsky must lose the match
and come home. Do you not agree?
Sure, but there are others beside Vassy we wish to see come home.
That should not be a problem.
Do we have a deal?
We have a deal and everybody wins.
Except Anatoly.
But he gets the lovely Svetlana.
♪ Long ago ♪
♪ In someone else's lifetime ♪
♪ Someone with my name ♪
♪ Who looked a lot like me ♪
♪ Came to know ♪
♪ A man and made a promise ♪
♪ He only had to say ♪
♪ And that's where she would be ♪
♪ Lately, although her feelings ♪
♪ Run just as deep ♪
♪ The promise she made ♪
♪ Has grown impossible to keep ♪
♪ And yet l wish it wasn't so ♪
♪ Will he miss me if l go? ♪
♪ In a way ♪
♪ It's someone else's story ♪
♪ l don't see myself ♪
♪ As taking part at all ♪
♪ Yesterday ♪
♪ The girl that l was fond of ♪
♪ Finally could see ♪
♪ The writing on the wall ♪
♪ Sadly, she realized ♪
♪ She'd left him behind ♪
♪ And sadder than that ♪
♪ She knew that he wouldn't even mind ♪
♪ And though there's nothing left to say ♪
♪ Would he listen if l stay? ♪
♪ It's all very well to say ♪
♪ You fool! It's now or never ♪
♪ l could be choosing ♪
♪ No choices whatsoever ♪
♪ l could be ♪
♪ In someone else's story ♪
♪ In someone else's life ♪
♪ And he could be in mine ♪
♪ l don't see ♪
♪ A reason to be lonely ♪
♪ l should take my chances ♪
♪ Further down the line ♪
♪ And if that girl l knew ♪
♪ Should ask my advice ♪
♪ Oh, l wouldn't hesitate ♪
♪ She needn't ask me twice ♪
♪ Go now ♪
♪ l'd tell her that for free ♪
♪ Trouble is, ♪
♪ The girl is me ♪
♪ The story is ♪
♪ The girl is me. ♪
♪ Isn't it strange the complications ♪
♪ People attach to situations ♪
♪ Almost as if they want to miss ♪
♪ The wood for the trees? ♪
♪ Nothing will change my basic feeling ♪
♪ When they've done all their wheeler-dealing ♪
♪ Those in the strongest situations ♪
♪ Do as they please ♪
You might see all kinds of human emotion here--
passion and pain, Iove and hate.
♪ l see nothing other than a simple board game ♪
At the Dusit Thani Hotel Bangkok,
Alexander Molokov makes his move.
We did not bring you to Bangkok for a holiday, my dear.
You must tell your husband
he has to lose the match and come home.
Talk to Anatoly.
♪ You can have the life you want ♪
♪ And anywhere you want it ♪
But if Anatoly wins,
life is going to be very tough for you
and your children. Tell Anatoly that.
♪ Make him think of you ♪
♪ Not narcissistic dreams of glory ♪
How many times does he want to be champion, anyway?
Two days later, the wife, Svetlana Sergievsky, makes her move.
How many times do you want to be champion, anyway?
Come home, Anatoly.
♪ Who needs a dream? ♪
♪ Who needs ambition? ♪
♪ Who'd be the fool ♪
♪ In my position? ♪
♪ Once l had dreams ♪
♪ Now they're obsessions ♪
♪ Hopes became needs ♪
♪ Lovers possessions ♪
♪ Now you're where you want to be and who you want to be ♪
♪ And doing what you always said you would ♪
♪ And yet you know you haven't won at all ♪
♪ Running for your life and never looking back ♪
♪ In case there's someone right behind to shoot you down ♪
♪ And say he always knew you'd fall ♪
♪ When that crazy wheel ♪
♪ Slows down ♪
♪ Where will you be? ♪
♪ Back where you started ♪
And at the Oriental Hotel
Walter de Courcy from Global Television
plays his opening gambit.
Your father is alive.
My father? Alive?
Alive in Russia-- 30 years in prison.
And you think l would believe you?
Well, the evidence is conclusive.
And if you don't believe me, Anatoly will.
Now, you get him to lose against Viigand
and Molokov assures me he can get your father out.
And not only him.
♪ We have some people to recover ♪
♪ l know that you would simply love a ♪
♪ Chance to make sure your father's name was ♪
♪ High on our list ♪
♪ We want him back which is to say a ♪
♪ A gesture is needed from your player ♪
♪ We wouldn't mind if he got beaten, in fact we insist ♪
♪ There must be a lie you wouldn't tell me ♪
♪ A limit to your devious ambition ♪
♪ But what it could be l can't imagine ♪
♪ Is there no one here who's not a politician? ♪
There's no deal.
♪ When l was young ♪
♪ l learned that memories shouldn't be built to last ♪
♪ Luxuries such as father, mother ♪
♪ Jettisoned in the past ♪
♪ How can a half-remembered figure ♪
♪ From a past so remote that it's hardly real ♪
♪ Alter the way l feel? ♪
♪ Pity the child ♪
♪ Who 25 years on ♪
♪ Finds her confidence gone ♪
While in subterranean marble surroundings,
two of the world's most powerful players
make a mid-game assessment.
♪ You should have seen how she reacted ♪
♪ l couldn't leave till she'd extracted ♪
♪ Promises she would see her father ♪
♪ Simple, l said ♪
♪ Told her the way she could achieve this ♪
♪ Even though you might not believe this ♪
♪ She said that l was not to worry ♪
♪ Go right ahead ♪
♪ You don't know her well she could have fooled you ♪
♪ She could despite herself try to resist us ♪
♪ Yes, l may be wrong, but to be certain ♪
♪ There are others we can call in to assist us. ♪
And who better than a dethroned king?
Now remember who's paying for you to be here, Freddie, in Bangkok.
We have a deal with the Soviets to get some people out,
including Florence's father,
provided Anatoly loses and gets on back to Moscow.
You'd like that, wouldn't you, huh?
♪ Communist, Democrat ♪
♪ An intriguing collusion ♪
♪ Fair exchange, tit for tat ♪
♪ Comradeship in profusion ♪
-♪ And the appeal, partner ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
♪ Of this deal, partner ♪
♪ Is we both stand to win you and me ♪
♪ The lady also ♪
-♪ Don't break her heart ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
-♪ Just be smart ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
♪ Throw the match show your love ♪
♪ Is as pure as snow in Moscow ♪
♪ Thank God we're so civilized ♪
♪ And our word can be our bond ♪
♪ We can turn this ♪
♪ Into friendship for life ♪
♪ And beyond ♪
♪ Refugee, total shit ♪
♪ That's how l've always seen us ♪
♪ Not a help, you'll admit ♪
♪ To agreement between us ♪
-♪ There's no deal, partner ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
-♪ Who's your real partner? ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
♪ Could there be just a chance that you've got some heavy clients? ♪
♪ That's not true, partner ♪
♪ How could you, partner ♪
♪ Think l'd want to pursue ♪
♪ Any deal but our alliance? ♪
♪ How can you only think ♪
♪ Of your selfish ambition ♪
♪ And not of her position? ♪
♪ Or you'd rather perhaps see her world collapse ♪
For a tinpot competition!
Who put you up to this?
There's no deal.
So Frederick makes a desperate final play
for the woman he hasn't seen in a year.
♪ Silly boy, woman who ♪
♪ l should not have let walk out ♪
♪ There's no hitch that we two ♪
♪ Can't untangle or talk out ♪
-♪ And the appeal ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
-♪ Of this deal, partner ♪ -♪ Partner partner ♪
♪ Is we both stand to win ♪
♪ We'll bring back the golden era ♪
-♪ Stick with me, honey ♪ -♪ Honey honey ♪
-♪ Leave him be, honey ♪ -♪ Honey honey ♪
♪ You don't know what they've planned for you ♪
♪ Long ago in Moscow ♪
♪ Can't you see we've moved on? ♪
Chess has nothing to do with this. Chess isn't life.
But l've changed.
He won't help you with her father.
Anatoly would never throw any match.
l'm telling you the truth, Florence. Come back to me.
♪ Who'd ever think it? Such a squalid little ending ♪
♪ Watching him descending just as low as he can go ♪
♪ l'm learning things l didn't want to know ♪
♪ Who'd ever guess it? This would be the situation ♪
♪ One more complication ♪
♪ Should be neither here nor there ♪
♪ l wish l had it in me not to care ♪
♪ Let him spill out his hate ♪
♪ Till he knows he's deserted ♪
♪ There's no point wasting time ♪
♪ Preaching to the perverted ♪
♪ Who'd ever think it? No one makes the moves intended ♪
♪ Till the game has ended ♪
♪ Then they say l told you so ♪
♪ l'm learning things l didn't want to know. ♪
It can all be different now, Florence.
l love you. Come back to me.
♪ Everybody's playing the game ♪
♪ But nobody's rules are the same ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side ♪
-♪ Never be the first ♪ -♪ Everybody's playing the game ♪
♪ But nobody's rules are the same ♪
♪ Nobody's on nobody's side. ♪
♪ When l was nine l learned survival ♪
♪ Taught myself not to care ♪
♪ l was my single good companion ♪
♪ Taking my comfort there ♪
♪ Up in my room l planned my conquests ♪
♪ On my own, never asked for a helping hand ♪
♪ No one would understand ♪
♪ l never asked the pair ♪
♪ Who fought below ♪
♪ Just in case they said no ♪
♪ Pity the child who has ambition ♪
♪ Knows what he wants to do ♪
♪ Knows that he'll never fit the system ♪
♪ Others expect him to ♪
♪ Pity the child who knew his parents ♪
♪ Saw their faults, saw their love die before his eyes ♪
♪ Pity the child that wise ♪
♪ He never asked ♪
♪ Did l cause your distress? ♪
♪ Just in case they said yes ♪
♪ When l was 12 my father moved out ♪
♪ Left with a whimper, not with a shout ♪
♪ l didn't miss him ♪
♪ He made it perfectly clear ♪
♪ l was a fool and probably queer ♪
♪ Fool that l was l thought this would bring ♪
♪ Those he had left ♪
♪ Closer together ♪
♪ She made her move the moment he crawled away ♪
♪ l was the last the woman told ♪
♪ She never let her bed get cold ♪
♪ Someone moved in l shut my door ♪
♪ Someone to treat her ♪
♪ Just the same way as before ♪
♪ l took the road of least resistance ♪
♪ l had my game to play ♪
♪ l had the skill and more, the hunger ♪
♪ Easy to get away ♪
♪ Pity the child with no such weapons ♪
♪ No defense, no escape from the ties that bind ♪
♪ Always a step behind ♪
♪ l never called to tell her all l'd done ♪
♪ l was only her son! ♪
♪ Pity the child, but not forever ♪
♪ Not if he stays that way ♪
♪ He can get all he ever wanted ♪
♪ If he's prepared to pay ♪
♪ Pity instead the careless mother ♪
♪ What she missed what she lost ♪
♪ When she let me go ♪
♪ l wonder does she know ♪
♪ l wouldn't call-- a crazy thing to do ♪
♪ Just in case she said ♪
♪ Who? ♪
♪ Nothing is so good ♪
♪ It lasts eternally ♪
♪ Perfect situations ♪
♪ Must go wrong ♪
♪ But this has never yet ♪
♪ Prevented me ♪
♪ Wanting far too much ♪
♪ For far too long ♪
♪ Looking back ♪
♪ l could have played it differently ♪
♪ Won a few more moments ♪
♪ Who can tell? ♪
♪ But it took time ♪
♪ To understand the man ♪
♪ Now at least l know l know him well ♪
-♪ Wasn't it good? ♪ -♪ Oh, so good ♪
-♪ Wasn't he fine? ♪ -♪ Oh, so fine ♪
♪ Isn't it madness ♪
♪ He can't be mine? ♪
♪ But in the end he needs a little bit more than me ♪
♪ More security ♪
♪ He needs his fantasy and freedom ♪
♪ l know him so well ♪
♪ No one in your life ♪
♪ Is with you constantly ♪
♪ No one is completely on your side ♪
♪ And though l move my world ♪
♪ To be with him ♪
♪ Still the gap between us ♪
♪ Is too wide ♪
♪ Looking back, l could have ♪
♪ Played it differently ♪
♪ Learned about the man before l fell ♪
♪ l was just a little careless, maybe ♪
♪ But l was ever so much ♪
♪ Younger then ♪
♪ Now at least l know l know him well ♪
-♪ Wasn't it good? ♪ -♪ Oh, so good ♪
-♪ Wasn't he fine? ♪ -♪ Oh, so fine ♪
♪ Isn't it madness ♪
♪ He won't be mine? ♪
♪ Didn't l know ♪
♪ How it would go? ♪
♪ If l knew from the start ♪
♪ Why am l falling apart? ♪
♪ Wasn't it good? ♪
-♪ Wasn't he fine? ♪ -♪ Isn't it madness ♪
♪ He won't be mine? ♪
♪ But in the end he needs a little bit more than me ♪
♪ More security ♪
♪ He needs his fantasy and freedom ♪
♪ l know him so well ♪
♪ It took time ♪
♪ To understand him ♪
♪ l know him ♪
♪ So well. ♪
What are you doing here?
♪ This is the one situation ♪
♪ l wanted most to avoid ♪
♪ Then what on earth are you doing? ♪
♪ You could be better employed ♪
♪ No-- please hear me out, l think l can help ♪
♪ If it's about Florence l'm warning you ♪
♪ No ♪
♪ It's not about her your wife or your kids ♪
-♪ Or money or Walter or Molokov ♪ -♪ What the hell is it? ♪
♪ l want to talk chess ♪
Chess?
♪ Something l've noticed in Viigand ♪
♪ It's his King's Indian Defense ♪
♪ One of the lines he's been trying ♪
♪ Doesn't completely make sense ♪
♪ l don't understand ♪
♪ l told you, his King's Indian-- ♪
♪ No, l don't understand why you're helping me ♪
♪ Because l love chess ♪
♪ Does nobody else? Jesus, sometimes l think l'm the only one ♪
♪ How can you let mediocrity win? ♪
♪ What about Florence's father? ♪
♪ My wife and my children? ♪ - Oh, fuck you!
♪ You've let them all down already ♪
♪ Win or betray yourself too ♪
♪ You don't want those shits ♪
♪ To get what they want ♪
♪ They'll get what they want, they always do ♪
♪ No, they won't if you win ♪
♪ Be true to the game ♪
♪ The one thing you know you can count upon ♪
-♪ What about Florence? ♪ -♪ The one thing is chess! ♪
Chess?
How can you let mediocrity win?
You have one chance left. Win for chess.
You were five-one up. Now it's five all.
Get a grip.
♪ Tal ♪
♪ Lasker ♪
♪ Steinitz ♪
♪ Alekhine ♪
♪ Botvinnik ♪
♪ Smyslov ♪
♪ Spassky ♪
♪ Euwe ♪
♪ Karpov ♪
♪ Fischer ♪
♪ Petrosian ♪
♪ Anderssen ♪
♪ Capablanca ♪
♪ Kasparov ♪
♪ Morphy ♪
♪ Capablanca. ♪
Gentlemen, the score is five games each.
You both need just one more win
to be world champion.
All eyes in the world of chess
and indeed many eyes outside
are turned towards Bangkok, Thailand, today,
where what many here expect to be the final game
of the match in this gripping encounter
has just been launched with ceremonial splendor.
And all the talk is of the recent sensational loss of form
of world champion Sergievsky,
who seems certain to surrender his title here today
to the mightily impressive Viigand.
♪ 1866-- Wilhelm Steinitz ♪
♪ 1894-- Emmanuel Lasker ♪
♪ How straightforward the game ♪
♪ When one has trust in one's player ♪
♪ 1921-- José Capablanca ♪
♪ And how great the relief ♪
♪ Working for one who believes in ♪
♪ Loyalty, heritage ♪
♪ True to his kind come what may ♪
♪ 1927-- Alex Alekhine ♪
♪ How straightforward the game ♪
-♪ 1935-- Euwe ♪ -♪ When one is free from distraction ♪
♪ 1948-- Mikhail Botvinnik ♪
♪ When your only concern ♪
♪ Is laid out so clearly before you ♪
♪ 64 squares-- they're the reason you know you exist ♪
♪ 1957-- Vasily Smyslov ♪
-♪ It's the weak who accept ♪ -♪ 1960-- Tal ♪
-♪ Tawdry untruths about freedom ♪ -♪ 1963-- Tigran Petrosian ♪
♪ Prostituting themselves ♪
♪ Chasing a spurious starlight ♪
♪ Trinkets in airports ♪
♪ Sufficient to lead them astray ♪
♪ 1969-- Boris Spassky ♪
♪ Does the player exist ♪
-♪ 1972-- Boris Spassky ♪ -♪ In any human endeavor ♪
♪ 1975-- Anatoly Karpov ♪
♪ Who's been known to resist ♪
♪ Sirens of fame and possessions? ♪
♪ They will destroy you ♪
♪ Not rivals, not age, not success ♪
♪ 1956-- Budapest is rising ♪
♪ 1956-- Budapest is fighting ♪
♪ 1956-- Budapest is falling ♪
♪ 1956-- ♪
♪ Budapest is dying. ♪
♪ They all think they see a man ♪
♪ Who doesn't know ♪
♪ Which move to make ♪
♪ Which way to go ♪
♪ Whose private life ♪
♪ Caused his decline ♪
♪ Wrecked his grand design ♪
♪ Some are vicious some are fools ♪
♪ And others blind to see in me ♪
♪ One of their kind ♪
♪ Anyone can be a husband, lover ♪
♪ Sooner them than me ♪
♪ When they discover ♪
♪ Their domestic bliss is shelter for their failing ♪
♪ Nothing could be worse than self-denial ♪
♪ Having to reverse this endless trial ♪
♪ Of a partner's rather sad demands prevailing ♪
♪ As you watch yourself caring ♪
♪ About a minor sporting triumph, sharing ♪
♪ Your win with esoterics paranoids, hysterics ♪
♪ Who don't pay attention to what goes on around them ♪
♪ They leave the ones they love the way they found them ♪
♪ A normal person must dismiss you with disgust ♪
♪ And weep for those who trusted you ♪
♪ Nothing you have said is revelation ♪
♪ Take my blues as red ♪
♪ My consolation's finding out at last ♪
♪ My one true obligation ♪
♪ Since you seem to have shut out ♪
♪ The world at large then maybe l should cut out ♪
♪ Your tiny inessential world, inconsequential ♪
♪ In the kind of game you're playing ♪
♪ How do you do it? ♪
♪ l tried to be that cynical but blew it ♪
♪ l only changed your life-- you left your home, your wife ♪
♪ l'm not surprised l slipped your mind ♪
♪ Nothing you have said is revelation ♪
♪ Take my blues as red ♪
♪ My consolation-- finding out at last ♪
♪ My one true obligation ♪
♪ Listen to them shout-- they saw you do it ♪
♪ In their minds no doubt that you've been through it ♪
♪ Suffered for your art but in the end a winner ♪
♪ We have never heard such an ovation ♪
♪ Who could not be stirred? Such dedication, skill and guts ♪
♪ A model for the young beginner ♪
♪ They're completely enchanted ♪
♪ But they don't take your qualities for granted ♪
♪ It isn't very often that the critics soften ♪
♪ Nonetheless you've won their hearts ♪
♪ How can we begin to ♪
♪ Appreciate the work that you've put into ♪
♪ Your calling through the years, the blood and sweat and tears ♪
♪ The late, late nights, the early starts? ♪
♪ There they go again! Your deeds inflame them ♪
♪ Drive them wild, but then ♪
♪ Who wants to tame them? ♪
♪ If they want a part of you who'd really blame them? ♪
♪ And so you're letting me know ♪
♪ You're the only one who's never suffered anything at all ♪
♪ How you've hated my success ♪
♪ Well, l won't crawl ♪
♪ And you can slink back to your pawns and to your tarts ♪
♪ And every poison word ♪
-♪ Shows that you never understood ♪ -♪ Liar! ♪
♪ Check! ♪ ♪ Never! ♪
♪ Liar! ♪ ♪ Never! ♪
♪ Nothing you have said is revelation ♪
♪ Take my blues as red ♪
♪ My consolation-- finding out ♪
♪ That l'm my only obligation ♪
♪ Is there no one in my life ♪
♪ Who will not claim ♪
♪ The right to steal ♪
♪ My work, my name ♪
♪ My success ♪
♪ My fame ♪
♪ And my freedom? ♪
Anatoly Sergievsky is the winner
and remains world champion.
So, you've done it. You're still the champion.
l had to win to be free.
Free for what?
Free to help your father-- if l go back.
Free to play chess--
it's the only thing l can stay true to.
♪ This is an all-too-familiar scene ♪
♪ Life imperceptibly coming between ♪
♪ Those whose love is as strong ♪
♪ As it could or should be ♪
♪ l'd give the world to stay just as we are ♪
♪ It's better by far ♪
♪ Not to be too wise ♪
♪ As we realize ♪
♪ There was truth ♪
♪ And there were lies ♪
♪ Knowing l want you ♪
♪ Knowing l love you ♪
♪ Cannot compare my despair ♪
♪ Knowing l've lost you ♪
♪ l've been a fool to allow ♪
♪ Dreams to become great expectations ♪
♪ How can l love you so much ♪
♪ Yet make no move? ♪
♪ There will be days and nights ♪
♪ When l'll want you ♪
♪ More than l want to ♪
♪ More than l should ♪
♪ Oh, how l want you ♪
♪ You and l ♪
♪ We've seen it all ♪
♪ Chasing our hearts' desire ♪
♪ But we go on pretending ♪
♪ Stories like ours ♪
♪ Have happy endings ♪
♪ You could not give me ♪
♪ More than you gave me ♪
♪ l don't know why l'm standing by ♪
♪ Watching this happen ♪
♪ l won't look back anymore ♪
♪ And if l do just for a moment ♪
♪ l can't imagine the time ♪
♪ When l won't care ♪
♪ But here we are today ♪
♪ And it's over ♪
♪ Hold me and tell me ♪
♪ We'll meet again ♪
♪ One happy moment ♪
♪ You and l ♪
♪ We've seen it all ♪
♪ Chasing our hearts' desire ♪
♪ But we go on pretending ♪
♪ Stories like ours ♪
♪ Have happy endings. ♪
So in the end our hero won brilliantly, surprised us all.
He played as well as he's ever done.
No surprise.
Well, this is. He's just announced he's going back to the Soviet Union.
He seems unable to win without the added thrill of changing sides.
Don't you have a single word to say?
No.
♪ You know you wouldn't listen anyhow ♪
♪ And what l'm feeling now ♪
♪ Has no easy explanation ♪
♪ Hasn't this been a great achievement? ♪
♪ Losing your man ♪
♪ And nothing in return? ♪
Not my man, your man.
Anyway, Anatoly's return to the Soviet Union
is a very decent gesture.
It's virtually assured us some very important collateral,
including your father.
He must have done it for you. He wouldn't have done it for me.
We'll get your father out if he's still alive.
What did you say?
Well, we can't be sure he's alive.
But then, you couldn't be sure he was dead.
No change there, huh?
You'll be back next year. It's only a game.
No! l've spent my whole life playing games.
♪ How to survive them? ♪
♪ Where do l start? ♪
♪ Let man's petty nations ♪
♪ Tear themselves apart ♪
♪ My land's only borders ♪
♪ Lie around my heart. ♪