====== Kronsteen - Vladek Sheyball ====== [[http://imdb.com/name/nm0792996/|IMDb Biography]] **__Film__**: [[films:from-russia-with-love|From Russia With Love]] Kronsteen is the grand master planner for [[films:organizations:spectre|SPECTRE]], using his phenomenal intelligence and brilliant strategies to devise several tasks to insure a win for [[films:organizations:spectre|SPECTRE]]. He is first seen playing, and later winning a championship chess match and the moving on to tell of his plan for bringing down 007 in the most humiliating fashion. He looks upon people as chess pieces, merely objects to move around in hopes for victory. > **Kronsteen**: And there will be no failure. Kronsteen works with [[films:characters:rosa-klebb|Klebb]] in the plan, Kronsteen setting it up, and [[films:characters:rosa-klebb|Klebb]] following his objectives of it. However, Bond surprises them both and the plan doesn’t go accordingly later on. Due to his miscalculations, Kronsteen is killed by a poison-tipped blade, from [[films:characters:ernst-stavro-blofeld|Blofeld’s]] orders.