Konstantin Khabenskiy as Korchnoi

Ivan Yankovsky as Karpov

Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Gradov

Victor Dobronravov as Sergey Maksimov

Viktor Sukhorukov as Viktor Baturinskiy

Diana Pozharskaya as Veronika

Anatoly Kot as Igor Zaytsev

Mikhail Troynik as Yuriy Balashov

Aleksandr Filippenko as Leonid Brezhnev

Larisa Shakhvorostova as Karpov's mother

Anton Bogdanov as Vasiliy Brykin

Dmitriy Miller as Sevastyanov

Zurab Miminoshvili as Guladze

David Brodsky as Boris Zelenin

Dmitriy Iosifov as Mikhail Tal

Arseny Topolaga as Pavel

Denis Kotov as Reporter

Anton Lunin as Wedding photographer

Irina Zamula as French reporter

Sergey Taktarov as

Vartan Torosyan as Announcer's helper

Alyona Kim as Marisol

Leon Avtaev as Chess player

Fyodor Dobronravov as Karpov's father

Vladimir Zaytsev as Aranovich

Igor Khripunov as Philippov

Mark Noble as Schmid

Josefin Asplund as Paola

Peter Seaton-Clark as Gofdrey

Junsuke Kinoshita as Kampomanes

Vladimir Khalturin as Spasskiy

Pekka Strang as Fischer

Daniyar Alshinov as Captain Romeo

Armen Ananikyan as Petrosyan

Vladimir Andreyev as Luzhniki announcer

Sesil Plezhe as Press room journalist

Sergey Genkin as Roommate

Pyotr Vins as Murei Yakov

Alexandr Gorelov as Polugaevskiy

Igor Zakharov as Grigoriy Naumovich

Anastasiya Imamova as Accountant

Mikhail Kalinichev as Zlatoust audience

Grant Kagramanyan as Chess player

Nikolay Drozdovsky as Korchnoi's parapsychologist

Ivan Perković as Fragella

Vladimir Tashlykov as Professor Melnikov

Evgeny Chupin as Main grandmaster

Sergey Shokolov as Brezhnev's referent

Radoje Čupić as Kazhic

Grant Amiryan as Bit part