The BBC Radio 4 production Across the Board, which is arguably the most thoughtful and interesting example of journalism to grace our beautiful game recently returned with a third season. Dominic Lawson, current head of the ECF brings us six more games with yet another interesting mix of opponents and questions for them. If you have time to play through the games on line, I suggest you do so whilst listening to the show. By doing that you might notice that Dominic’s questions are as strategic as his play and perform their role in helping him across the board adequately. I have linked Series 3 below. If I may say so, the radio is far more suitable as a medium to study chess than TV/YouTube, as it demands that you must set up a board and physically play through the game yourself. This will enhance the experience of the game you are playing through considerably. Note, however, for this particular program the games must be viewed on line as only a selection of moves are offered during conversation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04njsks/episodes/guide
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Although radio may be a good medium to study chess, I’m not sure that I’d agree with you that it is for these particular shows.
For me there are few concrete links between the moves and the conversation.
Occasionally it becomes obvious which move the game has reached ( “Ah, your attacking my knight..” ), but it didn’t happen very often in the first episode.
However, I find the interviews very good, and Dominic draws some good points from his guests.
My observations on the first game and interview with Steve Davis are here [ http://signalman90.blogspot.nl/2015/05/more-radio-chess-steve-davis-and-magma.html ] , but I admit I was carried away with some great memories it inspired in me and drifted into musical reveries from the late eighties ….
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Hi yes, as I hope I mentioned in the post, for Across the Board you can’t play through the games, which is perhaps, a slight criticism of the show or at least from a chess player’s point of view. I’m not sure if I enjoyed the Kasparov interview as much as the others… .
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Hi Mark. Could you send me an email. It’s regarding T F Fuller of Vauxhall. Thanks, Jon
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