Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Funny Old Game

Chess in comedy, no.1: Hancock, 'The Radio Ham', 9 June 1961:



'King's pawn to queen's bishop three...'






'Just a minute, it's my move...'

3 comments:

ejh said...

Do you know Flanders and Swann?

Jon H said...

Indeed - Michael Flanders tells a little yarn about Alekhine playing Queen's rook to bishop 6 (or something similar) - apparently this caused surprise "since they were playing bridge at the time"...

ejh said...

Specifically