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A touch of light entertainment...

A couple of videos, chess in New York...
Washington Square Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRjc63IWKPs
&
24 hour chess shop..
http://youtu.be/Khe7p55uaNM

May have been posted before, if so apologies.
A reconstruction, using the original soundtrack recorded 30 years ago, of the Mater Game Final 1981...
TV Chess - "The Master Game" Reconstructed - 1981 Final - Short v Miles - Part 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAgvAL60Blk

Some light relief....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksI9izS2bQ
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ksI9izS2bQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye866253gMY

Among other videos relating to chess, on the British Pathe website there is one of the Gambit Chess Rooms in London, shot in 1946. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=48380 Quoting from the website.."Pictures taken at Gambit Chess Rooms, London, during the lunch hour. Good long shot of the roo...

With a health warning that the language involved, in the programme, may offend some. Chess made a brief appearance, via a draw and a phone, in latest episode of The Thick of It. benedgell and cjdemooi at work ? Product placement ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p5wrm/The_Thick_of_It_Series_...

An interesting article, in view of the of the fact that today we can monitor and play from machines on our desks, laptops on our knees, around the globe.

http://atlantic-cable.com/Article/1926C ... /index.htm

Found via the machines whirring away at Google:_
http://www.clicklancashire.com/sport/ot ... chess.html

Jeremy Clarkson & Chess Mentioned here... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5488548.ece from which "To eliminate the element of luck, I always suggest chess but this doesn’t work either because the only person who knows how to play in my family is my son, w...

I see that the Chessbase Facebook Club, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73688355680 is listed under ......................
"Sports & Recreation - Extreme Sports" (!!!!)

On a lighter note, but alas not a water-based trophy, a video of the human face of Mr. Karpov....
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ipdYFuIX- ... annel_page

Martin

Apologies for the white/black confusion, as I was the original poster over at the Atticus forum,


I took my information regarding colours from Chessbase,
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4970

memo to self: assume nothing