You can see it was The London Docklands Match. People were wearing appropriate tee shirts. So it was half in London and half in NY. They all played on normal chessboards.
I called the moves over from London to NY by telephone. Kasparov wouldn't give the simul if Campo was there. So he was sent off to NY to take charge of the match. It was impossible to get the NY youngsters to take the match seriously. A couple of times I requested them to quieten down. When Campo arrived after a couple of hours, he promptly made the same request.
Dmitrios Agnos is indeed in the photo.
Roger is referring to a different clock simul by Kasparov. In the Acorn Computer 1983 Candidates matches the moves were indeed typed in. Les Blackstock did that from above. Barry Wood wondered why the moves didn't transmit instantly, so he was fooled. t wasn't until 1986 that the Intelligent Chess Software boards became electrosensitive.
It is my fault Susan Walker (later Arkell, later Lalic) fainted in the simul. I had recommended to ICS that the square the piece had last moved to should flash to show the move. I didn't know about photo-sensitive epilepsy at that time. Gavin Crawley took over the position just out of the opening and drew.
I have a video of another of Garry's clock simul against NY youngsters. Sophia Gorman was the arbiter, well possibly Rohde by then. Garry threw a hissy because one of his opponents forced a draw from a standard position. He thought that improper in a simul. Another player reached the same position, varied from the forced draw and lost.
I spent quite a lot of time with Sophia this May.
Sorry to take the thread off track. One could take any number of old photos or videos and spark remininsces.
Statistics: Posted by Stewart Reuben — Sat Nov 03, 2012 3:00 am