Welcome ladies and gentlemen to another episode of Story Break, the Writers Room Podcast, where three Hollywood professionals have one hour

to turn a humble idea into a pitch for a radical, daddical movie.

I am your host, Freddie Wong, coming at you live. I'm Will Campos and I'm one

Dadical screenwriter. Nice. Man. You have you having a kid? No but you said

Dadical and so I was just going to roll with it.

Yeah, Matt, Arnold here, Checkers Officionado, first and foremost,

Ryan Director Second, I played games of true skill.

So what are we doing today? Matt play not only play solved games, but today, but today the most unsolved game,

as that we know of, the story of chess.

And a quick shout out to Tyler Ria and Michael Burton who both sent

chess in as a suggestion on Twitter when we were calling out for entries

or Twitter by the way at RJ Story Break There's been a lot of movies about chess, but what of the game itself?

No one has adapted chess. Yeah. No one has dared, but now we dare to tread where fools have I don't remember what the name of the

well one you two are both chess players so why don't you for those I don't know what chess is

Summarize chess really quick and then get into breaking this chess is really quick and then it's get into breaking this.

Chess is the board game for people who are smart enough to not need big dumb board games like the ones mad to place.

As they call the game of Kings, it is a well-known way of getting popular with the ladies in high

school. I found. This is me personally. Just me speaking from personal experience.

Will, what about you? Well, Freddie, I've always felt that chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a chessboard, a chessboard, a chessboard, a chessboard, a checkered game board with 64 squares arranged on 8 by 8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide.

That's the first time I've ever heard like audience statistics.

Yeah, it's like a McDonald's side.

It's like millions and millions of players.

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