Get from Question A to Question B in three easy steps:-
Question A:
The programme I'm thinking of watching which stars Martin Clunes and is starting tonight on BBC is ... ?
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Question B:
A new book from Quality Chess I'm thinking of buying is ... ?
Pop quiz, Hotshot: what was Martin Clunes's first television appearance?
ReplyDeletewas it on a soap advert as a 5 year old or something like that?
ReplyDeleteReggie Perin, and Reggie Perin's Guide to Chess?
ReplyDeleteReggie Perin was the new programme...
ReplyDeleteStep 1 relates to the original Reggie - or rather who played him.
Who played him at chess?
ReplyDeleteLeonard Rossiter - Philip Rossiter?
ReplyDeleteThe original Reggie Perrin was played by Leonard Rossiter.....who played a character called Smyslov in A Space Odyssey.......so, a new book of Smyslov's games maybe?
ReplyDeleteOur second anonymous friend has it ...
ReplyDeletebut now I look up the link I see that it was New in Chess producing the book not Quality chess.
Oops sorry about that.
Anyway, NIC have just released a book on the Botvinnik-Smyslov" World Championship matches.
- JB
... the third step being Smyslov played Botvinnk in three world championship matches.
ReplyDeleteThe fourth step being I nearly put my fist through the screen having spent quite a lot of time I didn't have perusing the Quality Chess website.
ReplyDeleteI even started wondering whether CJ de Mooi had written something for them.
Sorry again EJH.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get where I am today without making the odd careless blunder I'm afraid.
Cock-up on the publisher information front I'm afraid
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