Hope for our society!
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I've been on Eggheads, but got all my questions wrong.
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Really? I thought the "golden era" of quiz shows was the 1980s and 1990s; certainly 1994 was well within it. There are far fewer quiz shows these days, and they've been overtaken by Reality TV like X Factor, and panel shows like Mock the Week.Paul Cooksey wrote:It was actually a bit surprising to see someone I knew back then, before quiz shows really took off.
In those days you had Bullseye, Big Break, Strike it Lucky/Rich, Crystal Maze, Generation Game, Price is Right, Play Your Cards Right, Sale of the Century, Going for Gold, Blockbusters, Catchphrase, Wipeout... I can remember all of those in my own lifetime!
Nowadays all that's left really is things like Eggheads, Countdown, Who Wants to be a Millionnaire? and Weakest Link (which is about to be killed off).
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Apologies Kevin, I wasn't aware of your celebrity (I have rectified now this through Google and offer my belated congratulations... )Kevin Thurlow wrote:Perhaps I can answer!
One of my ex-(chess) team mates won £125,000 on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". His £250,000 question was something like "which ex-Soviet leader's name translates as 'Man of Steel' ?". It was too bad that he didn't have a phone-a-friend lifeline left or he could have phoned Keti Arakhamia, another team-mate...
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I appeared on Countdown 4 years ago. That's your lot. Reckon Only Connect would be a laugh though.
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---- you started the list so why didn't you finish ?Alex Holowczak wrote:In those days you had Bullseye, Big Break, Strike it Lucky/Rich, Crystal Maze, Generation Game, Price is Right, Play Your Cards Right, Sale of the Century, Going for Gold, Blockbusters, Catchphrase, Wipeout...
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How far back do you want to go? And how far down the grading list?? I ask because my peak rating, way back in 1973/4, was no higher than 164. Which some might say is too low and too long ago.Stewart Reuben wrote:A list of people would be quite interesting on those who have been, or are, ECF graded or FIDE Rated, who have appeared on quiz shows.
However ..... I did win the New Zealand Mastermind title in 1981, taking as my main specialist subject The History of Chess, 1450-1972! (And let's immediately offset that gross bit of skiting by remarking that my appearance the following year in the international was an unmitigated disaster.)
I've been on several other shows as well in NZ and Oz, making a handy few thou along the way, but no six-figure jackpots as yet.
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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I couldn't think of any more, but reckon there were some.E Michael White wrote:---- you started the list so why didn't you finish ?Alex Holowczak wrote:In those days you had Bullseye, Big Break, Strike it Lucky/Rich, Crystal Maze, Generation Game, Price is Right, Play Your Cards Right, Sale of the Century, Going for Gold, Blockbusters, Catchphrase, Wipeout...
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"Apologies Kevin, I wasn't aware of your celebrity"
No problem!
Dave Ledger lost (I think) on Countdown, having a word disallowed which later became legal. But he did win £3000 on Brainteaser. Simon Gillam was on Countdown years ago. There is a very useful site; http://www.thecountdownpage.com/series.htm and if anyone wants to trawl through that, they will probably find a few more chessplayers. I believe Ken Norman did rather well on Brain of Britain (which is radio, but nonetheless impressive.)
No problem!
Dave Ledger lost (I think) on Countdown, having a word disallowed which later became legal. But he did win £3000 on Brainteaser. Simon Gillam was on Countdown years ago. There is a very useful site; http://www.thecountdownpage.com/series.htm and if anyone wants to trawl through that, they will probably find a few more chessplayers. I believe Ken Norman did rather well on Brain of Britain (which is radio, but nonetheless impressive.)
"Kevin was the arbiter and was very patient. " Nick Grey
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He was also on Only Connect in 2008 as part of the "Edinburgh Scrabblers" - he has an IMdb entry on the back of it.Kevin Thurlow wrote: Simon Gillam was on Countdown years ago.
And as a scrabbler (is that a real word?) he recently competed in the World Championships mentioned here
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I remember seeing an Only Connect where one of the teams was called 'The chessplayers'. I couldn't find any of them in the grading list. In one of the questions they had to complete the following sequence:
QR,QN,QB,?
They got it wrong!
QR,QN,QB,?
They got it wrong!
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There was also a chessboxing team on Eggheads - oh, sorry, Stewart was asking about graded/rated players, "real chessplayers" ...
There was a chess team some five or six years ago of Pein, Cox, Jacobs and Hartston which lost to another random team of friends who played under some banner or other on TV. Sorry, I've even forgotten the name of the programme. The chess players were winning until the end (!)
Felix Kwiatkowski apparently once went very far on 15-1 but could not answer how far the penalty spot should be from the goal.
There was a chess team some five or six years ago of Pein, Cox, Jacobs and Hartston which lost to another random team of friends who played under some banner or other on TV. Sorry, I've even forgotten the name of the programme. The chess players were winning until the end (!)
Felix Kwiatkowski apparently once went very far on 15-1 but could not answer how far the penalty spot should be from the goal.
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Peter Shaw >I remember seeing an Only Connect where one of the teams was called 'The chessplayers'. I couldn't find any of them in the grading list. In one of the questions they had to complete the following sequence:
QR,QN,QB,?
They got it wrong!<
CJ solved that mystery for me. It was a team of quizzers. They simply chose the name without actually being real chessplayers. One team member muttered that he was only familiar with algebraic notation. The opposing team found it hilarious as they gave the answer Q immediately. Quizmaster Victoria Coren said to me she thought perhaps the question was a little unfair, but I disagreed.
QR,QN,QB,?
They got it wrong!<
CJ solved that mystery for me. It was a team of quizzers. They simply chose the name without actually being real chessplayers. One team member muttered that he was only familiar with algebraic notation. The opposing team found it hilarious as they gave the answer Q immediately. Quizmaster Victoria Coren said to me she thought perhaps the question was a little unfair, but I disagreed.
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I think (and he'll no doubt correct me if I'm wrong) that Neil Graham was on Fifteen to One.
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A special "professionals/occupations" series of University Challenge I believe.Jonathan Rogers wrote:There was a chess team some five or six years ago of Pein, Cox, Jacobs and Hartston which lost to another random team of friends who played under some banner or other on TV. Sorry, I've even forgotten the name of the programme.
Former local club member Bob Ginger http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/getre ... ef=111270D did well on "Millionaire" a few years back.
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I believe Feliks also did well on Brain of Britain many years ago.Felix Kwiatkowski apparently once went very far on 15-1 but could not answer how far the penalty spot should be from the goal.