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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:37 am

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
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Polonius would be proud of him, "This above all, to thine own self be true".
Polonius is an old bore who repeats stock phrases umder the impression that he's dispensing wisdom
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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Paul Cooksey » Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:52 am

I'd always assumed that chess cassettes only existed because they were cheaper to produce than videos. Did the format, rather than the content, have any fans here?

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:31 am

JustinHorton wrote:
Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:37 am
Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:51 pm

Polonius would be proud of him, "This above all, to thine own self be true".
Polonius is an old bore who repeats stock phrases umder the impression that he's dispensing wisdom
And it happens to this day.

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:54 am

Jonathan Bryant wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:56 pm
Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:51 pm
I asked Mike if he knew that Paulsen had played it vs Morphy and he expressed surprise, but he could have been being polite of course.
When did you ask him? He talked about Hartston telling him about the Paulsen games on the cassette. He might well have forgotten many years later, of course.
It must have been when I was still playing it, and probably a quick word between rounds at a tournament.

Nobody has mentioned the coaching by cassette, when for not much money, you could send a couple of games and a cassette, and get expert opinion on your games. As you were listening to the cassette, you were more likely to pay attention than if you were reading the annotations. I started off getting advice from Tony MIles and then John Nunn. Occasionally you were told, "This wasn't the best move, stop the tape and look at the position."

Modern life has caught up with today's online and DVD chess courses. So Mike was a trailblazer.
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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Geoff Chandler » Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:08 am

Very slightly off topic, or am I just updating the current topic.

there are audio chess books at the Audiostore.

https://audiobookstore.com/games-audiobooks/chess/ Just three of a good bunch I saw.

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by David Sedgwick » Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:50 am

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:54 am
Jonathan Bryant wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:56 pm
Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:51 pm
I asked Mike if he knew that Paulsen had played it vs Morphy and he expressed surprise, but he could have been being polite of course.
When did you ask him? He talked about Hartston telling him about the Paulsen games on the cassette. He might well have forgotten many years later, of course.
It must have been when I was still playing it, and probably a quick word between rounds at a tournament.

Nobody has mentioned the coaching by cassette, when for not much money, you could send a couple of games and a cassette, and get expert opinion on your games. As you were listening to the cassette, you were more likely to pay attention than if you were reading the annotations. I started off getting advice from Tony MIles and then John Nunn. Occasionally you were told, "This wasn't the best move, stop the tape and look at the position."

Modern life has caught up with today's online and DVD chess courses. So Mike was a trailblazer.
Kevin, you need to fix the quote tags in your original post

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:26 am

thanks - I'll try to work out how to do that...

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by NickFaulks » Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:32 am

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:26 am
thanks - I'll try to work out how to do that...
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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by David Sedgwick » Thu Jun 17, 2021 1:00 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:26 am
thanks - I'll try to work out how to do that...
You are missing a [/quote] at the end. If you edit your post by adding one, I think that that will do the trick.

I am posting publicly to help Nick as well.

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Thu Jun 17, 2021 3:58 pm

Thanks, David!

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Re: also available on cassette...

Post by Jonathan Bryant » Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:17 pm

Paul Cooksey wrote:
Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:52 am
I'd always assumed that chess cassettes only existed because they were cheaper to produce than videos. Did the format, rather than the content, have any fans here?
When I first bought cassettes chess videos weren’t yet available - and I must have been a good decade after Basman first started producing them.

I quite enjoyed the tapes at the time and found them useful.


The first chess video I remember was a tape of a blitz/rapid/blindfold match between Norwood and Plaskett. I’d have to check when that came out but my guess would be 1988/1989

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