Re: Great Chess Quotes
Great Chess Quotes
July 4, 2016
Tony Hancock was an English comedian featured on Hancock’s Half Hour on BBC radio and then, television. It aired in the 50s and 60s.
In the episode The Radio Ham (June 9, 1961) he has taken up amateur radio, but is dissatisfied with his conversations with other users. He plays poker, snakes and ladders and chess over the air.
One of the first conversations we hear is with Jaroslav Mihailovic in Belgrade, to whom Tony relays his latest move in their game:
KP to QB3 check
Jaroslav says, “Good move. This needs thinking about.”
A bit later Tony hears a distress signal from a man whose ship is sinking but for various reasons he cannot give the information to the authorities even though he spends all night trying and one of his lame colleagues does and gets the credit.
Resuming his usual activities the next morning, he gets this transmission from Belgrade:
KB to QR4 checkmate
and tired, frustrated and despondent, his sells his radio transmitter over the air to the highest bidder.
Can it really be 55 years ago that I enjoyed this?
Great Chess Quotes
July 4, 2016
Tony Hancock was an English comedian featured on Hancock’s Half Hour on BBC radio and then, television. It aired in the 50s and 60s.
In the episode The Radio Ham (June 9, 1961) he has taken up amateur radio, but is dissatisfied with his conversations with other users. He plays poker, snakes and ladders and chess over the air.
One of the first conversations we hear is with Jaroslav Mihailovic in Belgrade, to whom Tony relays his latest move in their game:
KP to QB3 check
Jaroslav says, “Good move. This needs thinking about.”
A bit later Tony hears a distress signal from a man whose ship is sinking but for various reasons he cannot give the information to the authorities even though he spends all night trying and one of his lame colleagues does and gets the credit.
Resuming his usual activities the next morning, he gets this transmission from Belgrade:
KB to QR4 checkmate
and tired, frustrated and despondent, his sells his radio transmitter over the air to the highest bidder.
Can it really be 55 years ago that I enjoyed this?
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