Remember when "Searching for Bobby Fischer" came out and everyone was confused because it wasn't a movie about a guy named Bobby Fischer? Well, you curious folk and especially chess fans will finally get that Fischer biopic. Variety reports that "Fight Club" director David Fincher will helm "Pawn Sacrifice" at Columbia Pictures, which also produced his upcoming Facebook movie "The Social Network."

"Pawn Sacrifice" will tell the first half of the chess Grandmaster's life story, from his beginnings as a prodigy of the game through to his historical (mostly for the media's hyping its Cold War significance) 1972 World Championship match against Russian rival Boris Spassky, after which Fischer became a celebrity and then, surprisingly, retreated into early retirement.

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