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Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 1:26 pm
by Gordon Morse
From the BBC website about Shreyas Royal and a young American player:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57241320
I haven't found any reference to this on the forum but please feel free to delete this post if it's already here
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 2:05 pm
by Stewart Reuben
Gordon Morse
You got the first posting on the 300th page of Media comments. Well done - and what a post!
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:58 am
by Matthew Turner
Chess on Man about the House on ITV3 now - Ruy Lopez just mentioned
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:43 am
by Stewart Reuben
Matthew >Chess on Man about the House on ITV3 now - Ruy Lopez just mentioned<
Any further information would be interesting. Referring to the Ruy Lopez suggests some research was done. I know nothing about the programme.
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:53 am
by Matthew Turner
It is a comedy from the 70's? Before the program there was the usual warning about some 'outdated attitudes'. There was a chat about men having bigger brain and there not being any females Mathematicians or Physicists and chess was proffered as the supreme mental exercise. Then the 'man about the house' gets well and truly smashed at chess by his female flatmate. The language used certainly demonstrated a good working knowledge of the game from the writers.
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 4:04 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
1973 - 1976, Are we talking about episode entitled "We shall not be moved" so I don't have to watch multiple episodes? Not because I think it was rubbish! I think it was a reasonable programme at the time, with quite a good cast.
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 5:59 pm
by JustinHorton
I've just seen an
ad for Movistar security systems which featured a game of chess, played outside with a clock.
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:20 pm
by Stewart Reuben
Justin. I can see why they would have included a chess clock for a security systems company.
Could they be worth approaching regarding chess sponsorship?
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:21 pm
by NickFaulks
For some reason I knew their name very well, and I have remembered that they sponsor a top cycling team.
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:35 pm
by JustinHorton
A notably underperforming one if I recall (not that this is relevant to anything).
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:12 pm
by Simon Rogers
NickFaulks wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:21 pm
For some reason I knew their name very well, and I have remembered that they sponsor a top cycling team.
Yeah. There was talk as to whether Chris Froome might join them.
Being a fan of Motorcycle Racing, I believe they are involved in Moto GP. I think they sponsor one of the Yamaha teams.
Movistar also sponsor Real Madrid Women's Football Team along with basketball in Spain.
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 9:45 pm
by John Clarke
Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:53 am
It is a comedy from the 70's? Before the program there was the usual warning about some 'outdated attitudes'. There was a chat about men having bigger brain and there not being any females Mathematicians or Physicists and chess was proffered as the supreme mental exercise. Then the 'man about the house' gets well and truly smashed at chess by his female flatmate. The language used certainly demonstrated a good working knowledge of the game from the writers.
I happened to catch this episode a while back. Chrissie does look at first as though she's doing all right, but actually ends up being checkmated. (Contrast, though, with the movie, where Robin gets creamed at strip poker.)
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 2:24 pm
by John Sellen
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 3:24 pm
by JustinHorton
Also in the
Guardian an imaginary chessboard
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:03 am
by Kevin Thurlow
Just looking at "Cracking the Cryptic"'s broadcast last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkeJmDcLjAU and the puzzle is linked to
http://abstractstrategygames.blogspot.c ... chess.html
I note that the "fairy chess" game mentioned includes a "buffoon", surprisingly on the board, not one side of it, or writing about it.
I also assume that the term "fairy chess" is not the same as problemists might think.