The Chess Show Archives
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| 1.94Mb Shift Click | "Phyllis Diller" sings "I'd rather play chess than eat" from the Cheesy Chess Lounge show  |
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| 548Kb Shift Click | Ballad of Kasparov vs. Deep Blue |
| 337Kb Shift Click | Talk'n About Chess |
| 548Kb Shift Click | Polishing the Bishop |
| 301Kb Shift Click | You're my Queen |
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What we'd really like to see is a match between Madonna and Yoko Ono.
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| Still More Madonna A 1.4mb download from Holland, of "Ray of Light". Don't blink or you'll miss the chess at 1:01. Could having chess in two Madonna videos just be a coincidence!? | |
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The Chess Master
, an episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater starring Paul Hecht and hosted by Tammy Grimes, which first aired on Fri, 5/28/82
Runtime 43 minutes, format MP3 32kbs 22khz mono, 10mb download. |
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Poet T.S. Eliot reads the section entitled A Game Of Chess from his modernist classic The Wasteland. Download Format AU, size 3mb
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Saturday Night Live - Chess For Girls Commercial
Chess has historically been a boys' game ... until now! Calling all little girls! The bishop is ready for a night of dancing - and she smells like strawberries! Format Streaming RealMedia 300 kbs 128 kbs 56 kbs 28 kbs |
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| Mind Game - A chess game takes on an added dimension when a champion faces the slowly intensifying realization that his opponent is more than he expected. Source : ifilm | |
| Stalemate - A chess match that lasts through the night and after a while things start to look unusual... | |
| Kasparov's Gambit - AltaVista commercial: The famous chess player Kasparov gets more of a challenge then he expected from a kid who searched on Altavista to find a way to beat Kasparov's Gambit. | |
| Checkmating - A woman tests her dates over games of chess, with each contest taking on the mood of the relationship. She’s in full control, knowing exactly what she wants in a man—until she finds it. | |