be a chess player myself and i really enjoy this movie and probably more so than the average person . one of the funny moment in the movie be when the grandmaster and who have murder his russian rival and be confront ( again ) by columbo during a chess simul ( an event where a strong player play match against several player at once ) . he become so distracted that he get checkmate by one of his opponent . but the really funny part of this be that you can actually see that the position on the board be the famous fool mate . although not even a mediocre player would fall into this trap much less a grandmaster and even when be annoy it really be a fitting position for the movie and for undoubtedly and any chess player who commit murder for fear of lose a chess match be a fool indeed .