Chess on TV

[PeterTurland]

I think the real reason chess is not on the TV, is the subconscious desire of the people who really run our culture, not to change anything at all, problem is, things have truly changed with human economics.

An acre is the amount of land, a man with a horse and plough can plough in a day, along came tractors, one man with a tractor and plough can achieve well over 30 times that, whilst raising nary a sweat.

Why has our economic theory not progressed beyond Adam Smith?

Why are our affairs run by people like Alan Sugar, who is on record as saying he would rather make money than make love? People like him, do not want a sport that promotes thinking for oneself like chess, people like him only want propaganda propagators on TV, like Eastenders and Coronation St, designed to keep us nice quiet consumers that shop at Tesco's programmed by loyalty points and keep happily funding the insurance betting office racket.

[Niall Doran]

Just had a call from Coronation Street asking for help filming a chess scene this Friday afternoon

My other half's a Corrie fan. When the episode likely to air, and which characters are involved?

A ill-informed source suggests that Dot Cotton is giving a blindfold clock simul versus the Dingle family with Elsie Tanner as arbiter.

There will be a horrendous explosion (someone leaves the gas on) with much mayhem and gnashing of teeth and many "Cor blimeys" and whippets.

Dot will be taken hostage by Dirty Den and later rescued by Benny and "Miss Diane".

In the final scene "JR" will return to "The Street".

And JR will explain that Bobby really was in a coma for over a year, caused by his opponent forcing him to play the Exchange French.

[PeterTurland]

Whale oil beef hooked

[John McKenna]

Peter Turland >Why has our economic theory not progressed beyond Adam Smith?<
Could it be because until recently Adam Smith was a special adviser to Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Sec?
He had to sacrifice himself to give the latter a chance to wriggle out of a tight spot he has gotten into.
If the ECF had managed to associate themselves with the Olympics they may have kept some external funding coming for this year. Bridging finance until enhanced DMS replaces DCMS grant. Hope Adam Smith goes on to better things.

[Stewart Reuben]

John McKenna >If the ECF had managed to associate themselves with the Olympics they may have kept some external funding coming for this year.<

That was a total non-starter once Tony Banks was sacked.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov understands very well the advantages of chess being recognised by the IOC, which of course it is. But he wasn't able to get it actually into the games. The logistics of so many events is the stumbling block.

I doubt Scotland will succeed with the Commonwealth Games in 2014. We didn't in Manchester.

To get chess regularly on TV, a thousand people have to write in independently requesting it to the same set of stations.

[raycollett]

Since the Master Game Series (or before if any existed)
how many programmes on chess either on terrestial or sky can anyone remember ? ( excluding films obviously )

This morning on the RT.com channel there was an interview with Vladimir Kramnik as build up to the world title match opening today in Moscow.

[Stewart Reuben]

What is the R.T channel?

Mike Creaney >Since the Master Game Series (or before if any existed) how many programmes on chess either on terrestial or sky can anyone remember ? ( excluding films obviously ).

This isn't a precise response to this question. What follows is my catalogue of broadcast TV in my DVD collection. I have none of the David Nixon series that started in about 1972. Nor do I have several of the Master Game Series. Some of the material mixed in was not broadcast in Britain. You can find my complete catalogue on the ECF site. That includes fictional material. When I pasted and copied it stripped out most of th tabulation.


Disc Title White Black Commentators
1 Master Game 1980 Schmidt L
Browne W
Hort V Byrne R
Nunn J
Pfleger H Bill Hartston,
Jeremy James
2 Master Game 1980
Rest not available Byrne
Stean M
Hort
Schmidt Korchnoi
Schmidt
Browne
Browne Hartston, James
3 Master Game 1981
Games 1-4 Gligoric, S
Byrne, R
Miles, A
Schmid, L Short, N
Hort, V
Larsen, B
Donner, J Hartston, James
4 Master Game 1981
Games 5-8 Hort, V
Short, N
Donner, J
Larsen, B Gligoric, S
Byrne, R
Miles, A
Schmid, L Hartston, James
5 Master Game 1981
Games 9-12 Gligoric, S
Short, N
Larsen, B
Miles, A Byrne, R
Hort, V
Donner, J
Schmid, L Hartston, James
6 Master Game 1981
Game 13 Short, N Miles, A Hartston, James
7 Ohra, Belgium 1987
Nunn, J
Kasparov, G
Short, N
Short, N Short, N
Short, N
Kasparov, G
Hubner, R Hartston, James
7a Ohra Nunn
Short
Hubner
Kasparov Kasparov
Korchnoi V
Kasparov
Hubner Hartston, James

7b Ohra

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
ICC World Lightning 2000 Korchnoi
Korchnoi
Jim Plaskett
on programme
Pons
Nunn
Portisch, Lajos



1 minute chess
8 Ohra
Docklands Speed 1986
World Cup 1982 Final
Master Game 1982,Game 1 Korchnoi V
Kasparov, G
Karpov, A
Keene, R Short, N
Short, N
Spassky, B
Browne, W Hartston, James
Ray Keene
Hartston, James
Hartston, James
9 World Cup 1982 Spassky B
Karpov A
Torre E
Timman J Timman J
Nunn J
Lobron E
Spassky B Hartston, James
10 World Cup 1982 Seirawan Y
Torre E
Karpov A
Spassky B Karpov A
Spassky B
Seirawan Y
Lobron E Hartston, James
11 World Cup 1982 Seirawan J
Karpov A
Karpov A
Spassky B Nunn J
Bouaziz S
Spassky B
Karpov A Hartston, James
12 Master Game 1982 Lobron E
Christiansen L
Short N
Browne W Quinteros M
Adorjan A
Hecht H J
Lobron E Hartston, James
13 Master Game 1982 Quinteros M
Christiansen L
Hecht H J Keene R
Short N
Adorjan A Hartston, James
14 Master Game 1982
Two games missing Quinteros M
Lobron E
Lobron E Browne
Adorjan A
Keene R Hartston, James
15 Acorn Computer World Championship Semis Kasparov G
Smyslov V Korchnoi V
Ribli Z Independent production
16 Candidates 1984
World Championship 1984 Kasparov G
Kasparov G Smyslov V
Karpov A Hartston, James
16b Candidates 1985 Hartston, James
17 Candidates 1984
World Championships 1984, 1985
1986 BBC Games 7-9 Kasparov G
Kasparov G

Kasparov G Smyslov V
Karpov A

Karpov A Hartston, James



17a 1986 to Game 12 Kasparov Karpov
18 World Championship 1986

Infolink Speed Chess Kasparov G


Kasparov G
Speelman J Karpov A


Polgar S
Ilescas M John Nunn,
Sheila Jackson,
Ray Keene
Keene
18a London Docklands Speed 87 Games 2-6 Kasparov Short
Tony Bastable
Keene
18a1 Great British Triumphs
Infolink Speed Chess
London Dockland Miles
Speelman
Short Karpov 1983
Kasparov
Kasparov
See 19
See 18a*
18b BIS Speed 87 Chandler, M
Arkell, Keith
Hodgson,Julian
Speelman Nunn
Ivanov, Igor
Flear, Glenn
Short Keene
18c Games people played
BIS concluded, Semis

Final
Nunn
Hodgson
Hodgson
Speelman
Ivanov
Nunn documentaries
19 Infolink Speed Chess
Timman J
Adams M
Kasparov G
Adams M Lautier J
Hjartarsson
Speelman J
Timman J Keene
20 James Capel Speed 1 Ray Keene,
Larry Evans
21 James Capel Speed 2
+ blitz in all 3 matches Adams M
Short
Short Speelman J
Nunn J
Adams Keene, Evans
22 Duels of the Mind, Best 12 1-4 Keene,
Donald Woods
23 Duels of the Mind 5-8 Keene, Woods
24 Duels of the Mind 9-12 Keene, Woods
25 Prodigies:
Your Exceptional Child
Anderson interview
Boy who would be King
To Kill a King
Polgar bits
On the Line
Nigel Short
Nigel Short
Nigel Short
Adams, Lane G
Polgar J and S
Matthew Sadler
26 Pilkington Glass Quarters Speelman J Short N
27 Pilkington Glass Semis 89 Speelman J
Karpov A Timman J
Yusupov A Hartston, James
28 Interactive Chess
Olympiad 1990
Montpelier 1990 Speelman J

Kasparov Viewers

Karpov Hartston


29 World Championship 1990
Candidates Quarters Kasparov G
Short N
Korchnoi V
Anand A
Ivanchuk Karpov A
Gelfand B
Timman J
Karpov A
Yusupov A
29a GM Video Oakham 1992



Shirov interview
Chandler,Murray
Kasparov
Shirov, Alexei
Polgar, Judit
Shirov

Fischer Olafsson, Helgi
Karpov 1990
Bareev, Evgney
Angelova
Zhuvevlov

Spassky 1992 Hastings 1991
Norwood

1990
1988 Olympiad
1983
Cathy Forbes
30 Olympiad 1990
World Championship 1990 Keene
30a GM Video Ward, Chris
Mystery
NatWest
British Champ. Suba, Mihai
Police
1991
1991
Keene
Norwood
Julian Hodgson
31 World Championship 1991 Kasparov G Karpov A Kasparov, Karpov
David Norwood
Bachiar Kouatly
31a GM Video interview Kasparov James Plaskett
32 Candidates Matches 1991 Short N Speelman J Keene
32a GM Video

Candidates Semis Khalifman, Alexander
Short N Larsen, Bent

Karpov A Watson, Farley and Williams
Malcolm Pein
33 Candidates Final 1993
On the Line
Introduction to World
Championship 1993 Short N
USSR chess Timman J Hartston, King

BBC and
Channel 4
34 American Gambit
Masters of Disaster
Chess in Pieces
Business of Sport 2005 Kasparov simul
Harlem School

sponsorship US Juniors
Documentary

Documentary
35 Kasparov’s Winning Moves Simul for charity 1993
35a On the Line,Red Squares
1993 Pre-match report
36 World Championship 1993
Full match Kasparov G Short N Keene +
Daniel King
37 Channel 4 1993 Kasparov + Short Commentators All
37a Channel 4 1993 speed Kasparov G v Short N
37b Channel 4 1993 speed Continued.
Match summary
38 Kasparov Interview
39 Intel Speed Chess 1993-4 Maurice Ashley
Danny King
40 Intel Rapidplay 1994 Ashley, King
41 Intel Rapidplay 1994-5 Ashley, King
41a World Championship 1995 Kasparov G Anand V Ashley, King
42 Sultan’s Prisoner
Grandmasters of Dundee

Chess Kids Sultan Khan
Motwani, Paul McNab, Colin
World Youth


US doc. Better print 66a
42a Battle of Brains Polgar, Susan Horizon
42b My Brilliant Brain Polgar, Susan
43 Chess, the most beautiful game
Chess, a state of mind
44 Foreign & Colonial Hasting Amateur Lord Callaghan speech SR cameraman
45 Story of Hastings Documentary Elmira Mirzoeva
45a Knight with Koltanowski Knight Tour +
anecdotes Koltanowski,
George
46 Magnus Carlssen Documentary
46a Elista 1996 Karpov, A Kamsky, Gata amateurish
47 Russian Blitz 2005
48 Sydney Samole Museum
49 Bobby Fischer Documentary Modern material
49a Clash of the Titans (1) Karpov, A Polgar, Susan amateurish
49b Clash of the Titans (2) Karpov Polgar, S
50 GM Video match
Understanding Chess Jim Plaskett
Bruce Pandolfini Norwood D
50a Checkmate Hydra chess
computer
50b Torino 2006 CD music Morricone
50c Turin 2006 Yasser Seirawan
50d Question Time No chess Inc. Kasparov See 66c
50e Computer Comparison Ismenio Sousa
50f Faking It

University Challenge Devereux, Maxim

Chess v V&A As a football coach

50f1/2/3 Child Genius Peter Williams TV Series

81 How to win at chess BBC4 21.12.2009

[John Upham]

Stewart,

Is your collection for personal use only?

Does the National Chess Library have access? Would you allow them to digitize your collection?

Potentially, this could form a very significant collection.

[raycollett]

What is the R.T channel?

It's an English Language Russian TV channel. If you've got a digital TV you should be able to get it unless you're in the sticks. The programme I heard is on their web site below and is downloadable:
http://rt.com/programs/spotlight/russia ... r-kramnik/

[Roger de Coverly]

It's an English Language Russian TV channel. If you've got a digital TV you should be able to get it unless you're in the sticks.

This one presumably
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_%28TV_network%29

from which

In the UK and Ireland, the channel is available on the Sky platform's channel 512, including in the Freesat from Sky package. It is also available in the UK 24 hours per day on Digital Terrestrial platform Freeview channel 85 and also on Freesat channel 206.

I suppose it's plausible they will have coverage of Anand v Gelfand.

[John McKenna]

Aleksandr: What is this RT, Sergei? More like Putin TV, please turn over. I mean TV not you, idiot!

www.comparethemeerkat.com/meet-team

[Stewart Reuben]

John Upham >Is your video collection for personal use only? Does the National Chess Library have access? Would you allow them to digitize your collection?<

The NCL in Hastings has most of my material. I recorded it for them. Some commercial material can't be copied. Thy have never advertised this part of their collection. But somebody can ask to access the material. Their reluctance is because such a high proportion is copyright.

The catalogue has been on the ECF website for several years.

Sometimes I have copied material for people on the strict understanding that they wouldn't copy it on. Thus there is a good proportion of it in Israel, Nigeria, South Africa. Sometimes people need a single item. Sometimes people come to my home to view particular items. Of course I cannot charge, so I ask for a donation to Hastings Chess Congress.

To the best of my knowledge my collection is the biggest in English in the world.

I don't know technically how to copy such as the Kramnik interview in a way in which I can add it to my permanent collection. Of course the interviewer was very mediocre, but Kramnik spoke well.

[Ian Thompson]

I don't know technically how to copy such as the Kramnik interview in a way in which I can add it to my permanent collection. Of course the interviewer was very mediocre, but Kramnik spoke well.

It's available as a download from the Russia Today web site link quoted above, so you can get an MP4 version of the programme and copy it to a CD.

[Mick Norris]

Just had a call from Coronation Street asking for help filming a chess scene this Friday afternoon

My other half's a Corrie fan. When the episode likely to air, and which characters are involved?

Matthew is back from Weatherfield, with the news that broadcast is likely to be 2 July, and that he can't say more than that

Good news is that a follow up scene is being filmed in a couple of weeks

[Mick Norris]

Latest news is that Corrie are filming chess on 3 more days in the next few weeks

If it stretches to end June, we hope to get Kasparov in the Rovers Return