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Right now I am working on expanding this article by providing the names^[1] of some individuals who were involved in the film's creation. This includes the music composer (Roger White) and editor (Pudovkin) which will both be added to the sidebar and actor/director Boris Barnet, who appeared in the film. Sushedley (talk) 05:08, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am expanding on the sparse plot in this Wiki page. One of the sources I am using is the short film^[2] itself, available on Youtube. Sushedley (talk) 06:15, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I just inserted external links into footnotes/references Sushedley (talk) 06:25, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Added a photo and caption of actor in film (José Raúl Capablanca) Sushedley (talk) 06:29, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edit! Changed "the girl" and "the boy" the "hero" and "heroine" in cast list because that is how they are discussed in cited movie review Sushedley (talk) 06:31, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Inserting a new heading and sub-heading (Production//development) to provide some background on the film Sushedley (talk) 06:58, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Added "Cultural Influence" heading; articulated the film's influence on Nabokov's novel (The Defense) and cited accordingly (applied new footnote) Sushedley (talk) 07:16, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Expanded on Cultural Influence and Nabokov's novel; applied new citation (Yuri Leving^[3]) and link Sushedley (talk) 07:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If I am not mistaken, the following chess players from the Moskow tournament also appear while playing or kibitzing: Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky, Solomon Gotthilf, Rudolf Spielmann, Fedir Bohatyrchuk, Friedrich Sämisch (smoking), Grigory Levenfish (kibitzing) and at least two others I could not identify