Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
| Writing | Alexey Sidorov | Screenplay |
| Camera | Mikhail Milashin | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Alexey Sidorov | Director |
| Production | Nikita Mikhalkov | Producer |
| Production | Leonid Vereshchagin | Producer |
| Production | Michael Kitaev | Executive Producer |
| Production | Rafael Minasbekyan | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ulyana Polyanskaya | Costume Designer |
| Art | Sergey Agin | Production Design |
| Production | Alexey Sidorov | Producer |
| Production | Sergey Gurevich | Producer |
| Production | Anton Zlatopolskiy | Producer |
| Sound | Artyom Vasilev | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Margarita Lenskikh | Casting Director |
| Directing | Ekaterina Molochnaya | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Dmitry Korabelnikov | Editor |
| Sound | Alexey Samodelko | Sound Director |
| Camera | Alexandr Mikeladze | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Filipp Yuzhanin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Aleksandr Vdovenko | Steadicam Operator |
| Crew | Aleksandr Samokhvalov | Stunt Coordinator |
| Visual Effects | Pavel Bezborodov | VFX Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Alexandr Gorokhov | VFX Supervisor |
