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According to the mag TV & Satellite week, the episode of Mastermind due to be broadcast on Friday 7th November on BBC2 will feature as one of the specialist subjects chess player Bobby Fischer.

Wonder if there going to set a date. Like "Pre 1993".

The contestant's name is Mark Hannon and his specialist subject is "Bobby Fischer - Life and Career".

Mark is a Welsh player, of around 2000 (175) strength. See also http://www.tenby-today.co.uk/tn/news.cfm?id=22333

Oh maybe even this...although as I write, it's not working.....

Good luck to Mark (if it's not taken place already - is it recorded or live?). Hope his performance is better than mine on Fifteen-to-One years ago. I got both my questions wrong and had to sit down.

Or mine on Eggheads, which went a similar way.

You can still see Mark Hannon answer questions on "Bobby Fischer " on BBC iplayer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... pisode_10/

Starts at 4.10

Or mine on Eggheads. Although Heather Lang did manage to knock out Judith on the sport round.

Claire

Claire Summerscale wrote:Or mine on Eggheads. Although Heather Lang did manage to knock out Judith on the sport round.

Claire

Were you and Jack on the same episode? Which one? I can't look thru all 105 of them!

We were not. I was the only chess player on my team; the rest of my team were my mother and her art friends.

FM Jack Rudd wrote:We were not. I was the only chess player on my team; the rest of my team were my mother and her art friends.

There is an episode featuring a team from Camberley Chess Club of

Ken & Christine Coates, Julien Shepley, Paul Sloane and Steve Harely.

The EHs won the final round on the third tie break which was edited out.