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

Описание: "Tonight on British television, we're inviting you to take part in a highly experimental programme - the first of its kind anywhere in the world."

Could you defeat English Grandmaster chess player Jonathan Speelman?

Your Move - the first live, interactive chess game on television - pitted the collective wisdom of BBC viewers against one of the world's leading chess brains. The programme was introduced by Rob Curling, with William Hartston providing expert analysis and implementing moves on behalf of the public on his wondrous new touchscreen computer. Viewers at home dialled a special chessline number* to input their desired move, these moves were then recorded on a computer which displayed the most popular selection to Mr Hartston.

This is effectively what Twitch would be like, if it had been created by the BBC.


Your Move aired for the first (and last) time on 7 December, 1990.

*Don't bother phoning in - the lines have been closed for over 30 years.

If you don't want to know the result, stop reading now. After two hours, Speelman manoeuvred the public into an impossible position, and 52% of them voted to resign.





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