チェス・マッチの決戦が始まった。過去のチャンピオン達の思い出が呼び起こされる。モロコフとフレディが会話を交わしている。理由はそれぞれ異なるが、アナトリーを落とし入れる企てがそこで明らかになる。フローレンスは恋人が敗戦を強いる圧力をかけられている事実を知らずにゲームを見つめ、彼の勝利の為には彼女さえも顧みない異常さを知る。
アナトリーはみんなを無視し、夢の様なゲーム運びを見せ、対戦相手を敗北に追い込む。彼は今までの敵が、彼の勝利に対する執念を見くびってきたことがおかしくもあり嬉しくもあった。私生活の面においては努力を怠ったかもしれないが、彼のブロ・プレイヤーとしての公的な生活において、彼は成功者に成り得たわけだ。そしてそれは彼が唯一望んだ成功だと自覚する。アナトリーは勝利の喜びに浸るが、人々の絶賛や妻の虚栄的ではあるが彼に近づこうとする努力にも、何故か即座に虚無感におそわれる。彼は今まで彼を満足させていた自分の身勝手で心の狭い野望や欲を軽蔑する。スベトラーナも同様だった。彼ら二人の間に和解のチャンスは絶たれた。スベトラーナは悲痛のうちに、アナトリーはあきらめとともに、今後彼らの唯一の義務は自分自身に対してのみということを納得する。（エンドゲーム）
[CHOIR]
1866 Wilhelm Steinitz
1894 Emanuel Lasker
[MOLOKOV]
How straightforward the game
When one has trust in one’s player (Choir 1921 Jose Capablanca)
And how great the relief
Working for one who believes in
Loyalty, heritage, true to his kind come what may
[CHOIR]
1927 Alexander Alekine
[FREDDIE]
Though it gives me no joy (The Russian 1935 Euwe)
Adding to your satisfaction (Choir 1948 Mikhail Botvinnik)
You can safely assume
That your late unlamented employee
Knows if he wins then the only thing won is the chess
[CHOIR]
1957 Vasily Smyslov
[MOLOKOV]
It’s the weak who accept (Florence 1960 Tal)
Tawdry untruths about freedom (Choir 1963 Tigran Petrosian)
Prostituting themselves
Chasing a spurious starlight
Trinkets in airports sufficient to lead them astray
[CHOIR]
1969 Boris Spassky
[FLORENCE]
Does the player exist (Choir 1972 Bobby Fischer)
In any human endeavour (Choir 1975 Anatoly Karpov)
Who’s been known to resist
Sirens of fame and possessions ?
They will destroy you, not rivals, not age, not success
[ANATOLY]
They all think they see a man
Who doesn’t know
Which move to make
Which way to go
Whose private life
Caused his decline
Wrecked his grand design
Some are vicious, some are fools
And others blind
To see in me one of there kind
Anyone can be
A husband, lover
Sooner them than me
When they discover
Their domestic bliss is
Shelter for their failing
Nothing could be worse
Than self-denial
Having to rehearse
To endless trial
Of a partners rather sad
Demands prevailing
[SVETLANA]
As you watch yourself caring
About a minor sporting triumph, sharing
Your win with esoterics,
Paranoids, hysterics,
Who don’t pay any attention to
What goes on around them
They leave the one they love the way they found them
A normal person must
Dismiss you with disgust
And weep for those who trusted you
[ANATOLY]
Nothing you have said
is revelation
Take my blues as read
My consolation –
Finding out that I’m my one true obligation
(Crowd cheer)
[SVETLANA AND THE CROWD]
Listen to them shout
They saw you do it
In their minds no doubt
That you’ve been through it
Suffered for your art
But in the end a winner
Who could not be stirred
Such dedication
We have never heard
Such an ovation
Skill and guts a model
For the young beginner
They’re completely enchanted
But they don’t take your qualities for granted
It isn’t very often
That the critics soften
Nonetheless you’ve won their hearts
How can we begin to
Appreciate the work that you’ve put into
Your calling through the years
The blood, the sweat, the tears
The late, late nights, the early starts
There they go again!
Your deeds enflame them
Drive them wild, but then
Who wants to tame them
If they want a part of you
Who’d really blame them ?
(Crowd cheer louder still)
[ANATOLY]
And so you’re letting me know –
[SVETLANA]
For you’re the only one who’s never suffered anything at all
[ANATOLY]
How you’ve hated my success –
[SVETLANA]
Well I won’t crawl –
And you can slink back to your pawns
and to your tarts
[ANATOLY]
And every poisoned word shows that you never understood
[SVETLANA]
Liar!
[ANATOLY]
Never!
[BOTH]
Nothing you have said
Is revelation
Take my blues as read
My consolation –
[SVETLANA]
Finding out that I’m my only obligation
[ANATOLY]
Is there no one in my life
Who will not claim
The right to steal
My work, my name
My success, my fame
And my freedom
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