TV Alert - 7th Nov 2008

[Roger de Coverly]

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.

[Ben Purton]

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

[John Saunders]

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

[JustinHorton]

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.

[IM Jack Rudd]

Or mine on Eggheads, which went a similar way.

[Neill Cooper]

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

[Claire Summerscale]

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

Claire

[Greg Breed]

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!

[IM Jack Rudd]

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

[John Upham]

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.