Your Move
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Host
Co-hosts
Commentator: William Hartston
Grandmaster: Jon Speelman
Broadcast
BBC2, 7 December 1990
Synopsis
Claimed as the first ever interactive game show, this was a "computerised phone-in" in which the entire nation played a game of chess against grandmaster Jon Speelman. Viewers could vote for the next move by phoning a number whose last four digits represented the move's start and finish squares (similar to the common "e2-e4" notation, but using numbers instead of letters).
Trivia
Oddly, we may have the film director Stanley Kubrick to thank for this. Apparently Alan Yentob, the then controller of BBC2, commissioned it after Kubrick, a big chess fan, phoned him up to give him an earful about the fact that the BBC weren't covering the world championships that year.
