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16 WIZARD CHESS In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the last of three levels of security Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger had to get past to reach the Stone was a giant game of wizard chess.

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    WIZARD CHESS

    In the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the last of three levels of security Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger had to get past to reach the Stone was a giant game of wizard chess.

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    WIZARD CHESS

    PAGE 15 Character development art by Dale Newton for “The Tale of the Three Brothers” sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. Newton, the sequence’s supervisor, gave each brother a distinctive shape.

    OPPOSITE The life-sized wizard chess set constructed by the special effects department for Sorcerer’s Stone.

    ABOVE LEFT For the young actors working on the practical set, the life-sized chess pieces were truly awe-inspiring. In this unit photograph from Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), playing the position of the black bishop, looks up at the intimidating white queen.

    LEFT Conceptual artwork by Cyrille Nomberg and Ravi Bansal for the chess-set pieces.

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