Chess Players Association of India
Chess Players Association of India( CPAI) is an association of chess players in India affiliated to the All India Chess Federation.
The objective of this association is to serve a common forum for players for Indian chess players and promote the game in particular.
The Chess Players (film)
Shatranj Ke Khilari
( English:" The Chess Players") is an Indian 1977 Indian historical drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name.
Amjad Khan plays the role of Wajid Ali Shah, King of Awadh, and Richard Attenborough plays the role of General James Outram.
The film also features the actors Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farooque Shaikh, David Abraham, and Tom Alter, as well as Amitabh Bachchan as the narrator.
This is the first hindi feature film of filmmaker Satyajit Ray and second being' Sadgati'- another adaptation of Premchand's short story.
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray( 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature.
Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film" Bicycle Thieves"( 1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic.
He authored several short stories and novels, meant primarily for young children and teenagers.
Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him.
He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.
Ray's first film," Pather Panchali"( 1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
This film, along with" Aparajito"( 1956) and" Apur Sansar The World of Apu")( 1959), form" The Apu Trilogy".
Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material.
Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992.
The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
Ray had received many noticeable awards and gained a prestigious position over his life time.
In 2004, Ray was ranked number 13 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.
Frank Marshall (chess player)
Frank James Marshall( August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.
List of Spanish chess players
A list of Spanish chess players:
List of Russian chess players
This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players.
The majority of these people are chess grandmasters.
List of chess players
This list of chess players includes people who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia.
The Chess Players (sculpture)
The Chess Players is an outdoor 1983 sculpture by Lloyd Lillie, installed in John Marshall Park in Washington, D.C., United States.
The Three Mannequins
The Three Mannequins is a 1926 German silent film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Hans Albers, Anton Pointner and Paul Graetz.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jacoby.
Jaap Speyer
Jaap Speyer( 1891–1952) was a Dutch film director.
He was married to the German actress Mia Pankau.

Question: Are the directors of films The Three Mannequins and The Chess Players (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: no