1990: INTERACTIVE CHESS on Your TELEVISION! | Your Move | Retro Gaming | BBC Archive

[@AMultipolarWorldIsEmerging]

Ingenious for the time. I’m so charmed by this. It’s a shame it couldn’t continue. I assume it was because it’s so experimental and didn’t get a whole lot of viewers ?? Incredible how much things have changed since that time

[@Ukedc259]

Bill Hartston was such a great presenter as well as chess player. On Master Game he was fantastic. Made chess seem something you just had to get into.

[@lachutequimarche8074]

What incredible documentation of such a specific time in history. This took a lot of coordination and I hope it gives people an idea of what it was like before the internet.

[@ajs41]

In 1984, on ITN's Euro election night programme, they organised a public vote based on teletext. I've got it on video somewhere.

[@MichaelBosley]

"The music is a specially commissioned composition" - I can tell. Those two-tone metronome pips must've taken ages to compose.

[@lewis7515]

6:45 Damian Stewart must have been ecstatic... I hope he's still alive and finds this video someday.

[@BBC600]

Would be awesome if the full game was made available.

[@brianmmacu]

William Hartson later to be seen on the sofa many years later as a Gogglebox “viewer”

[@fraserkatie]

Loved William Hartston on his series Play Chess!

[@BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

Man, I love these video's.

[@fredskronk]

Hey. Don’t switch off. I was watching that! (Seriously I was. I want to see the full math now)

[@jasonayres]

"BBC tele chess". For chess enthusiasts, it must have been an exhilarating televisual experience. Enhanced by the exciting background music and.. Metronome sounds?

[@andrewmorton3344]

I remember watching this live and William Hartston overruling a move that the viewers had voted for but he absolutely hated.

[@Mirrodin82]

Old but gold. I miss the old days.

[@krognak]

So calm and high brow. Can you imagine this being on telly now? No chance! I think the miserable casino channels are about as close as we get…

[@janbaukespoelstra6839]

I wish this was on tv these days……….we do it all wrong now😂

[@janbaukespoelstra6839]

I think we see only screens instead of real humans😂

[@altebander2767]

Thank you very much for uploading this in its propper 50fps form.

[@NidonocuPoisonBunny]

Funny to think of this as a very early precursor to 'Twitch plays Pokémon'

[@digitaldobbie]

This is going to be amazing when this becomes popular

[@TheStevenWhiting]

I'm not sure about that. I don't think it will catch on.

[@krytod_peel]

This is so ahead of its time. It's like Twitch plays.

[@darinbauer8122]

On the other thread somebody said that wverything from "89 on was garbage, at that particular moment I mentioned Public Enemy, this is also appropriate.

[@markbrown4039]

This is so cool!

[@cookster1001]

This is very ‘Look Around You’ Series 2

[@kennethmcdonald9736]

Anyone remember the TV Show "Chess Masterpieces" ? and "The King Hunt" ?

[@danorthsidemang3834]

MY Move.

[@ArranVid]

This is so cool. The good old days.

[@edmund184]

I remember this. It got me back into chess. No chance of this happening now.

[@jimsimpson1006]

Very interesting, even though I have no recollection of it at all.

[@ArranVid]

I remember Ceefax, good times.

[@sopranottt]

Does anyone know the exact technical reason why they couldn't use the number 1?

[@digitaldobbie]

Because ‘1’ on the dial gave you the option to leave your name on the internal line

[@flyanotherday_original]

Where can we watch the whole thing?

[@jorisbonson386]

0898 for every move - this must be the first ever 419 scam

[@fraserkatie]

Good old Ceefax if you get stuck!

[@Will-nn6ux]

Damn and blast British Telecom!

[@ArranVid]

Wait didn't they say that a2-a4 was the most popular move because the other dude mentioned it? I know that a2-a4 is one of the worst opening moves you can do, but they still should've allowed it if it was the most popular move via the phone line.

[@ArranVid]

Never mind, I think a2-a4 was the 2nd most popular move so that's why it wasn't chosen, fair enough.

[@chrisharris9633]

Was William Hartstone on Gogglebox?

[@kierancoughlan1378]

yes

[@greymack]

Some time later.......

[@janbaukespoelstra6839]

😂😂😂😂😂funny in 2023😂😂let’s go back to this😂

[@pressureworks]

When will this thing called interactive become reality already????

[@atmakali9599]

Isn’t it strange that women don’t and can’t play chess but are expert chess players moving and manipulating people?

[@jimsimpson1006]

Great female players do exist, I believe but are far fewer in number than men.

[@lnteIIigence]

💩

[@ArranVid]

Judit Polgar is a great female grandmaster. She defeated several former World Champions (including Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Boris Spassky) in casual games in the classical and blitz formats. She was also a child prodigy. Her two other sisters are also great chess players. Their dad trained them to be great chess players, and their dad wanted his three daughters to break the sexist gender barrier that stopped women from achieving their true potential in chess. There is still sexism in chess and there has been sexism in chess for a long time. For example, one of Judit's sisters was said to be even more talented than Judit herself (that is what Judit openly says in an interview), and Judit's sister should've been granted the grandmaster title since she did all the required things to get to grandmaster level, but the board denied her the right to get the grandmaster title, simply because Judit's sister is a woman and the board wanted Judit's sister to play against women or something in order to achieve the grandmaster title because, at the time, and it still may be the case today, there are different requirements male vs female in order to get the grandmaster title...and that is not fair on women because that is a double standard that men didn't have to go through to get the grandmaster title. It's complicated, but you can research it on Google or some other search engine.

[@ArranVid]

Atmakali, you sound like a sexist.

[@80srenaissance67]

She probably wore a low cut blouse