Tr0piiic just send me this link. This proves 100% how things are being done behind the scene. You may watch this video if you choose to accept the facts. After you are done, the evidence will self destruct in 5 light years.
Click here to see this conclusive video. Good luck!
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Hillarious!
Gad, I remember that episode! 🙂
Looking at the old MI clip shows that they were way ahead of their time in terms of chess cheating. But seeing the technology available now and I will include algabraic notation and digital clocks in the equation the scene was pretty laughable.
Thanks for the return down memory lane. I’m sure I saw that episode as a kid. However not knowing how to play chess at the time, it probably didn’t mean a lot to me. I’d love to see the entire episode.
I can’t believe “Anderson” had to wait to hear N-N6 ch PxN, Q-R3 mate. You’d think the MI gang would know at least a little chess. 🙂
Brad Hoehne
Yeah, that should have tipped them off that he was cheating right there. Those should have been instant moves. 🙂
Oh, and one more observation. I’m so glad I live in an era in which it is no longer socially acceptable (in my neck of the woods) to smoke in crowded, enclosed, spaces. I would not play in chess tournaments today if smoking was permitted. How did the non-smokers (all three of them) do it?
A ‘light year’ is a unit for measurement of distance, not of time.
Martin Landau and Joan Collins
Actually it was Martin Landau and Barbara Bain (women with the camera broche (sp?).
Thanks, Tr0piiic. Good to know. Still no excuse for hesitating on those last couple moves. 🙂
BTW, since international notation uses Q for the queen, so it took me a moment to decipher your moves – “what’s a D”?. 🙂 I think S (for German Springer) is still somewhat common for the knight, but I don’t recall seeing D for the Dame much if at all in English-language publications.
In what episode of what TV series was there a bomb in the chess clock, and this was figured out just in time to hurl the clock out the window as it exploded?
Google bomb chess clock episode does not tell me. (It does, however, bring up the March Chess Life cover story as hit #30, even though “clock” does not match.)
Also, I’m re-posting my query from Susan’s item on yesterday’s NY Times story—can someone please tell me which Shredder version (10 or 9.1 or…) was tested by GM Larry Christiansen, or forward me (privately: regan@cse.buffalo.edu) a way to contact him? In science it is always vital to have independent confirmation of assertions such as those (for Fritz 9 too) in the story—and experimental results should not be released without providing the methodology and means to verify them.
Great clip! Here’s some background info…(Who originally played that particular game?)
“Mission: Impossible”
A Game of Chess (1968)
Original Air Date: 14 January 1968 (Season 2, Episode 17)
Episode summary 1:
A chess master plans to steal a million in gold seized from the underground resistance in a hostile country. He burns down the bank that is to receive the gold, so that it must be stored in the vault of a hotel where he is playing a tournament.
Rollin wins their first game with the help of Barney’s chess computer, and lets the master know it. The computer has an effect on timepieces in its vicinity, they run faster.
Phelps has a time lock put on the vault. The master joins forces to open it with the apparatus. The IMF immobilize the army guard with symptoms of typhoid fever, take the gold and leave the master with his aide-de-camp in the vault.
Episode Summary 2:
Nicholas Groat, a grandmaster chessplayer, organizes a team that plans to steal gold intended for the underground in an Eastern bloc country that was intercepted by the country’s authorities. The IMF must recover the gold from the authorities and keep Groat from getting it. Groat forces the authorities to move the gold from a bank to a vault at the hotel where he (and Rollin) are playing in a tournament. The hotel puts a time lock on the vault for extra security, but Groat notices that Rollin is cheating, using a hearing aid. When he forces Rollin to demonstrate, the computer “inadverently” accelerates timepieces, so Groat wants to use it to get into the vault. Rollin agrees, but requires Groat use his team. Willy fakes a typhoid outbreak and Dr. Phelps administers shots to the guards which are actually sedatives. With Groat’s help they get into the vault, then take the gold at gunpoint and leave him there.
Writer: Richard M. Sakal
Director: Alf Kjellin
Star: Peter Graves (James Phelps (1967-1973)), Barbara Bain (Cinnamon Carter (1966-1969)), Greg Morris (Barney Collier), Martin Landau (Rollin Hand (1966-69))
Guest Star: Don Francks (Nicholas Groat), Curt Lowens (Captain Stevya), Jason Johnson (Referee), Will J. White (Sergeant), Michael Guarini (Opponent)
[Event “Mission Impossible Episode”]
[Site “TV”]
[Date “1968.01.14”]
[Round “17”]
[White “Computer”]
[Black “Macan, K.”]
[Result “1-0”]
1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. d4 e5 4. Nf3 exd4 5. Nxd4 c5 6. Qe2+ Be7 7. Nb5 Na6 8. N1c3 Qe6 9. Be3 Nf6 10. Qf3 O-O 11. Bd3 c4 12. Nd4 Qb6 13. Nf5 Qxb2 14. Nxe7+ Kh8 15. Bd4 cxd3 16. Qxf6 Rg8 17. Qxf7 Be6 18. Qxe6 Qxa1+ 19. Kd2 Qxh1 20. Ng6+ hxg6 21. Qh3# 1-0
(Who originally played that particular game? I’m assuming the television show just copied a game played elsewhere.)
Wow – and this guy did not even go to the Bathroom once !!!
O H Labone vs NN: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1242901
Congratulations Mr. Topalov. Now you will play GM Kramnik.
In the video, did you notice how much harder it was to see the Black pieces, compared to seeing the White pieces?
Black is an awful color (non-color) for chess pieces. Instead, try brown, or dark cherry red, or navy blue or even royal blue, or a deep forest green.
If we hope to see chess on TV occasionally, Black pieces are working against the goals of the chess promoter.
TO: Anon 4:38
I doubt this was a real game. Any master would have foreseen the mate.
This ending position does not occur in Convekta’s 2006/01/04 edition of its “3 million games” database. Nor do any of the middle game positions I search for (using Fritz9).
GeneM
P.S. Not that anybody will ever see this post I am now making. This Google-BlogSpot blog fails to re-highlight threads that have new activity, a shame.
Mary had a little lamb…