The Chess Player
The Chess Player is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy- Mazuel.
It is a historical drama set in the late 18th century during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania, and elements of the plot are drawn from the story of the chess- playing automaton known as The Turk.
Away Goes Prudence
Away Goes Prudence is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
This picture was directed by John S. Robertson and starred Billie Burke.
Screenwriter Josephine Lovett provided a story direct for the screen.
This is now considered a lost film.
Little Pal (1915 film)
Little Pal is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by James Kirkwood and starring Mary Pickford.
The film was produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
Frederic Friedel
Frederic Alois Friedel, born in 1945, studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and in Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language.
He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV.
He also joined the American sceptical society CSICOP( now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and investigated/ debunked several paranormal claims.
In the early 1980s he did a feature on computer chess and artificial intelligence, making friends with many top chess players in the process.
In 1985 he met Garry Kasparov and soon after that co-founded the chess database company ChessBase.
From 1983 to 2004 he edited the biggest computer chess magazine in the world," Computer- schach& Spiele", which recently became an online publication.
Friedel served as an advisor to Kasparov during his matches with Deep Blue in 1996 and 1997.
Frederic has been in close contact with many of the world's top chess players, including Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik, Carlsen, Leko, Topalov, Svidler, Short, the Polgar sisters and many others.
Today he spends most of his time editing the chess news page ChessBase.com.
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.
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.
The Moth and the Flame (1915 film)
The Moth and the Flame is a 1915 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
It was directed by Sidney Olcott and is based upon the play of the same name by Clyde Fich.
John S. Robertson
John Stuart Robertson (14 June 1878 – 5 November 1964) was a Canadian born actor and later film director perhaps best known for his 1920 screen adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", starring John Barrymore.
Robert Löhr
Robert Löhr( born 17 January 1973) is a German novelist and screenwriter.
He is best known for his novel" Der Schachautomat", translated into English by Anthea Bell as" The Chess Machine The Secrets of the Chess Machine" in the UK).
His work has been largely collected by libraries.

Question: Do both The Chess Players (film) and Away Goes Prudence films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no