it's mainly taken straight from walter tevis' imagination, to a screen near you.rong and complex female character? that's a combination of the script and director and a wonderful actress, anya. one of the difficulties we had at last minute, we hired garry kasparov, the former world chess champion for a decade and asked him to read the script and give us any comments. in the first committee gave, he came into town on the monday, read it overnight and we met on the tuesday. he said, there is one thing you absolutely can't do. you cannot have your players say check or checkmate. and we said, but how are we going to tell the audience she is in trouble. he said, you will have to find another way. at that level, the players don't need to say that because they can see what is happening. need to say that because they can see what is happeninglj need to say that because they can see what is happening. i have to say, my sons paused the programme to check all of the chess moves. they wa nted check all of the chess moves. they wanted to catch you out. we had a chess master on