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[Ed Collins]

Many of you might remember the old 1960s and 1970s "Mission Impossible" TV series.

In a January 1968 episode, called "A Game of Chess" Rollin poses as an amateur chess player entering first chess tournament. He wins the tournament, with the help of a computer that Barney and Jim are running. Cinammon fees the moves to them with a camera trained on the large display board. Jim relays the computer's reply to Rollin via a receiver in Rollin's ear.

You can see the clip here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUElKW6D6gc

Very entertaining. They use descriptive notation, which, of course, was popular at the time.

The description says this is clip #2 of 5, so apparently this entire episode is available on YouTube.

Chess appeared in American TV shows a LOT after Fischer won the championship in 1972. But you don't see too many clips like this from the 1960s.

Here's a description of that episode, from IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649205/