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The boy's brother
Also"my brother"; the little brother (the script's word); the rook-brother (the boy's picture of him)
Never seen or heard: the boy's brother exists in one comparison, Evans's rook that keeps checking ("He keeps poking you, and if you hit him, you get in trouble."), and in the boy's impression of his taunt, "I'm not touching you."
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He is in the film for eight seconds and never appears. When the teacher shows Evans's desperado rook, which keeps giving check because taking it is stalemate, the boy recognises it at once from home: a brother who pokes you and gets you in trouble if you hit back. The board puts the boy's crayon face on the rook, and the boy does the voice. Two minutes later the boy finds the same idea at Board 14 himself: a rook that checks forever, which the other side can't take without stalemate. The brother taught him perpetual check before the teacher did.
Who7 lines
- On screenThe boy has a brother: "It's like my brother. He keeps poking you, and if you hit him, you get in trouble." {E4 16:15.90} edit
- On screenThe boy voices him through the rook, sing-song: "I'm not touching you." {E4 16:23.71} edit
- On screenNever seen or heard himself. {E4 0:00-30:00} edit
- RunningA little brother: the script directs the line as "his little brother's sing-song taunt"; the film never says older or younger. {E4 script S16} edit
- RunningNothing places him at the table on the lesson night; it is a school night and he is not mentioned again. {E4} edit
- IdeaFor our own reference: about six, already asleep when the lesson starts, in the room the boy shares with him. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit
- IdeaFor our own reference: he holds his finger a centimetre from his brother's arm for as long as it takes; he would be a terrifying chess player. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit
By episode7 lines
- On screenThe teacher shows Evans v Reshevsky 1963 at the park: the rook that keeps checking, where taking it is stalemate. {E4 15:31-16:14} edit
- On screenThe boy: "It's like my brother. He keeps poking you, and if you hit him, you get in trouble." {E4 16:15.90} edit
- On screenOn the home board the blueprint rook wears the boy's orange crayon face as the little brother, a finger hovering near the king. {E4 16:16 S16} edit
- On screen"I'm not touching you." in the rook-brother's voice. {E4 16:23.71} edit
- On screenThe teacher makes no remark and goes on to Kasparov's simul. {E4 16:25.96} edit
- On screenAt Board 14 the boy finds the same shape himself: "If he takes it, I can't move. If he doesn't, I keep doing it." "Like the man in the park." {E4 17:37.76; 17:46.10} edit
- RunningSo the brother's poking is the boy's first picture of perpetual check, and the drawing move of the night grows out of it. {E4 16:15-17:46} edit
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Voice2 lines
Ties4 lines
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Running His shape returns as the boy's Rc2+ at Board 14, played with the The plastic rook. {E4 17:37; 27:05} edit
Open4 lines
- OpenHis name and his age; whether he is younger, as the script reads him. {E4 script S16} edit
- OpenWhether he plays chess, and on what. {E4} edit
- OpenWho sets up a new game in the dark after Black's flag falls. {E4 30:00-30:20} edit
- IdeaThe little brother, awake past bedtime, sets up the new game in the dark. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit