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Question: Which actor portrays Werner Heisenberg playing a part "blindfold game" in descriptive with a baseball player?


I anticipate replies suggesting a lack of certainty in their answer.

According to Bill Wall:

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) was probably taught chess by his father. He spent his free time in the evenings playing chess, which he always won. He often held chess matches under his desk at school and could give Queen odds and still win. He would often play blindfold chess with his father while hiking.

Is this Mark Strong?

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:26 am

Is this Mark Strong?

Yes, indeed from the 2018 film "The Catcher Was a Spy" which was enjoyable and reasonably faithful to actual events.

Recommended.

Interesting.

Werner Heisenberg (the famous theoretical physicist in case that wasn't obvious) was the son of Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg, who according to Wikipedia was a German Byzantist. I wonder if Werner's brother Erwin (born 1900, the year before Werner) also played chess? Erwin was a chemist, but not much about him immediately available.