He was teased by the late star's long-time manager, Joe Adams, about always losing chess games to Ray Charles.

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After losing to a supercomputer at chess, Garry Kasparov created a team event with machines and humans working together against a single computer.

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Others will condemn him for losing what he referred to as a game of chess to a master tactician - President Sarkozy of France - who'd always argued that Britain had no role influencing a currency they'd chosen to stay out of.

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Ben Kingsley is the instinct-squelching teacher, who passes his own fear and loathing about winning and losing to his student, while Laurence Fishburne is the intuitive one, a Washington Square Park speed-chess freak who inspires exuberant invention.

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