With the score at 9-9 the tape stopped during the match and I asked both opponents to halt whilst I changed the tape and this they did and that I did. So, imagine my horror when I played back the second tape after the change over to find that the board was entirely different to the one we had just restarted with! I now realise that although on the TV screen the picture went blank (thus alerting me to a change of tapes) the actual recording had stopped some time earlier and that I had missed out on a whole raft of moves.

In mitigation I put it to you that this was the first time ever that a match has been recorded in this manner and in my ignorance I genuinely thought that when the screen went blank it coincided with the end of recording - Wrong! So, when we get to that point in Game 12 I have had to ‘invent’ moves to bring us back to the actual board position on the second tape. Sorry.

The entire final can be downloaded as a JellyFish .mat file from here. You can also obtain a free video of the match by sending a blank video tape to me at Biba HQ including a stamped addressed envelope for its return.

Here is the bit that I put in . . .

Game 12

NB: It was at this point that the video camera stopped transmitting a signal which meant that the tape had ended. However, it was discovered that the video camera had stopped recording a few moves earlier and these moves were lost. I have ‘filled in’ the moves to arrive at the ‘re-start’ position. Jansari’s roll of 55 is correct but my moves start here . . .

Barber’s roll 09) of 52 was the actual roll and ends my moves. The remainder is as happened.