What's the shirt?

[Donna Ferentes]

Of course she is a world champion, which isn't nothing - and it makes a change that it's actually true. In the normal course of events, whenever somebody is reported in the press as having had an interest in chess in their youth, they are always described as having been a champion (for instance, Andrew Flintoff or Omar Saeed Sheikh, neither of whom actually was) and if any young player is reported on, it's always said that they're a prodigy (e.g. the late Jessie Gilbert, who wasn't).

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

They should put more chess on telly. I played at a bit at school, usually badly, but really enjoyed watching the Short v Kasparov stuff a few years ago and certainly learnt plenty.

I know it's not the greatest spectator sport, but you could create highlights packages with all the thinking time taken out.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

There's been a few attempts to get it on telly recently but nobody can get the executives interested. I really don't see why it won't work given that poker seems to work. People used to watch The Master Game in large numbers, most of them not chess players at all.

In the UK chess is pracitcally invisible to the public now: unless it's on telly I think it's going to stay that way. But it's cheap to play, easy to learn and endlessly fascinating - but you can't get media people to see that.

 

[Maggot]

I think it's the logo of the Red Lion Pub in Snargate:

 

[Kenny Vermouth]

There's been a few attempts to get it on telly recently but nobody can get the executives interested. I really don't see why it won't work given that poker seems to work.

I'd rather watch chess than poker, which is on all the fucking time.