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The video was made in 1985 to promote the Chess album and stage show. It features Barbara Dickson, Murray Head, Elaine Paige, and Bjorn Skifs. Tim Rice narrates, providing explanations about what the songs are depicting. It is a very technically well-done video with a lot of dry ice, lighting effects, quick cuts, creative camera angles, and computer aided graphics.
Chess Moves begins with the "Bangkok" music and an intact chess board. During this intro the squares migrate out to form the familiar chess logo. The effect is used again in "Nobody's Side", and in the "The Arbiter" in reverse -- the squares move back into place for him. The sets themselves contain many chess board-esque features -- from the actual game itself to black and white checked walls and floors. The "The Arbiter" number contains the extra verse. "I Know Him So Well" at times has Florence in a cafe forlornly by herself, and Svetlana in a house with a fire that goes out (a play on keeping the home fires burning) . "Pity The Child" contains mainly flash-back footage to the American's childhood (with Murray Head playing his own "father"), and at the end of the video he visits as an adult the places we saw him at as a child. The video to "One Night In Bangkok" was shown on MTV in the united states, and in Britain it won the award for the best British video of a male solo single in February 1985.
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