Two superintelligent characters play a game of chess in a movie. However, to emphasize that they are superintelligent, they play on a board with many more squares (and of course, playing at blitz speed, while casually having a conversation).
Furthermore, they play a slightly blindfolded game in which all the pieces look the same: they are superintelligent enough to keep track in their minds which piece is which. (Previously, checkers chess.)
Behind the scenes, this avoids having to construct a detailed prop large chess set, likely with many different piece types, and having to explain how such a set came to exist in the fictional universe where no normal human is capable of playing it (or at least, have fun playing it). (Then again, large shogi variants did exist.) Perhaps small pegs or nails in a dense pegboard.
It also lessens the need to come up with consistent rules for piece movement: the audience just sees identical pieces being moved around seemingly at random. Promotion or drops require declaring the name of a piece, so avoid them.
A Chess960-style randomization at the beginning of the game: one of the players consults a randomizer and declares they are using start position number N, some large random number.
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