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Hi Roland,

Russel Hunter (Lonely) sometimes popped into Sandy Bells, he use to watch us play chess though he never played.
Occasionally we exchanged a few words in between blitz games when I was at the bar, I found him quite a nice man.

At the moment (the festival) Bells is studded with celebs. (I went to the Tim Vine show - brilliant.)

Roland Kensdale wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 07, 2022 6:14 pm

Hotels.com advert showed 2 people playing in a lounge/lobby.

Expedia advert showed 2 people playing in a heated pool in (I think) an ice hotel.

A bit less current, a Callan episode from 1970 'The same trick twice', has the hero working through Golombek's 'Game of Chess'. They show the cover but not the board position. More often Callan got involved in wargames as the actor enjoyed these in real life - Edward Woodward (John Gielgud : 'His name sounds like a fart in a bathtub'.)

I used to be into wargamming and computing more than chess in my teenage years
Anyone remember the mission impossible 1960s episode on chess grandmasters or the columbo episode of a grandmaster murderer.

[/quote] the columbo episode of a grandmaster murderer.
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Some clips: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD ... NlX-wEHxKL

AlanLlewellyn wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 07, 2022 7:10 pm

Anyone remember the mission impossible 1960s episode on chess...

The villain, a master thief, was GM was Nicholas Groat and he played against one of the M.I. team.

The first game.

N.Groat - Team member wired to a computer.

1.e4 e6 2.Nc3 d5 3.d4 Bb4 4.Qg4 dxe4 5.Nge2 Bxc3+ 6.Nxc3 Nc6 7.a3 Nxd4 8.Qxg7 Nxc2+ 9.Ke2 Qd3

The GM Groat discovers the computer (which was meant to happen as part of the plot) and plays it again.

The second game

N.Groat - the computer

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Bc5 3.Nxe5 Qh4 4.d3 Qxf2

"I am finished." moans Groat. "20 years I have studied the game and now I am beaten by a machine."

Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:31 pm

AlanLlewellyn wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 07, 2022 7:10 pm

Anyone remember the mission impossible 1960s episode on chess...

The villain, a master thief, was GM was Nicholas Groat and he played against one of the M.I. team.

The first game.

N.Groat - Team member wired to a computer.

The GM Groat discovers the computer (which was meant to happen as part of the plot) and plays it again.

The second game

N.Groat - the computer

"I am finished." moans Groat. "20 years I have studied the game and now I am beaten by a machine."

geoff were there two chess episodes in mission impossible season 2 episode 17 i think was entitled a game of chess but it seemed different in clips to the episode i saw which was about a corrupt gm swindling money from memory.

I only know of the one, there could have been two.

In the one I mentioned the player was relaying the moves to a computer via a camera in her broach.
G.M. Groat was planning to steal one million in gold till Scholars Mate foiled him.

Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 09, 2022 1:13 am

I only know of the one, there could have been two.

In the one I mentioned the player was relaying the moves to a computer via a camera in her broach.
G.M. Groat was planning to steal one million in gold till Scholars Mate foiled him.

good thing he didnt know fools mate then the computer would have really been flummoxed, i mean 30 years of study of chess and he never came across scholars mate i guess they must have assumed no-one watching knew scholars mate or how basic it is.

Geoff i hope you realise this message will explode in 5 seconds...or is it self destruct

I watched it for 10 seconds, nothing happened...try again.

darn chineese technology, i blame the cut backs at head office

of course when truss takes over she will get rid of all the superfluous civil servants (like teachers, doctors, nurses, lecturers, police etc etc) and fund MI5 and MI6 to snoop and lockup dissidents (ie teenagers).

(from 'Tragically I was an Only Twin' - The Complete Peter Cook.)

Peter was writing about going to see a Man Utd v Spurs game when a Man Utd fan attacked him.
(it was apparently it was the Spurs rosette that attracted his attackers attention.)

'I believe football is the best game to watch of them all. I mean you can't let off steam
at a chess match,shrieking your head off. ' (Sunday People 4th February 1968)

He became are ardent Spurs fan because he supported Torquay United and
when he moved to London he noticed Tottenham began with 'To...'

Why would you need to move to London to notice that

"Why would you need to move to London to notice that"

Possibly, he wanted to watch live football, and when he got to London that was a reason. If he had moved to Birmingham, he would have found another reason.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-62498889

It doesn't mention chess at all. But if they are willing to have videogames in Commonwealth Games, then why not chess, Magic the Gathering, or sudoku ...?