Knight Moves

KNIGHT MOVES by Brad Mirman PROPERTY OF KNIGHT MOVES PRODUCTIONS (third draft) ________________________________________________________________________ 1 FADE IN: INT.AUDITORIUM - 1972 - DAY TWO BOYS sit on opposite sides of a chessboard.One is NINE, the other FOURTEEN.The room is SILENT, the tension between the two young players severe.All the ADULT PLAYERS that have been eliminated from this match by the two boys stand around watching.On the wall is a BANNER that reads:1972 WASHINGTON STATE TOURNAMENT. The FOURTEEN year old moves and hits his TIMER.Frustration fills the NINE year old's face.He moves.The FOURTEEN year old moves and calls CHECK.The NINE year old frantically searches the board for a solution.He moves.Again the FOURTEEN year old moves and calls CHECK.The NINE year is stunned.He picks up his KING to lay it on it's side and signal defeat.Suddenly, he rakes the pieces off the board, grabs his fountain pen and lunges at the FOURTEEN year old, stabbing him repeatedly in the chest.They fall to the floor. The ADULTS try to pull them apart.The NINE year old struggles ferociously, SCREAMING and kicking like a mad man. INT.HOSPITAL WARD - 1972 - DUSK In the b.g. we see the Nine year old Boy sleeping.A DOCTOR and the boy's FATHER, a hard-looking MAN in his forties, walk through the door.We MOVE with them down the hall. DOCTOR The pressures and demands players with your son's abilities put on themselves to win are incredible.