2020-11-13
54 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is James.
Ok my fact this week is that in 1978 chess player Victor Kochnoy accused Anatoly Karpov of cheating using an elaborate yoghurt based code.
Was it an elaborate yoghurt or an elaborate code?
I actually added that word elaborate to kind of make it feel a bit better than it actually is.
No it isn't elaborate yoghurt, it was blueberry wasn't it?
How basic are the yoghurt's that you're eating today, do you think blueberry is elaborate?
Anything about standard Greek is elaborate.
I've read some places that it's blueberry but some places that it might be the even more elaborate bilberry yoghurt.
Ok that actually really is top tier.
But basically what had happened was we'll get on to everything that was happening around there at the time
because it was an extremely controversial match but Karpov was just playing chess and then suddenly someone brought him a yoghurt and no one knew
that they were going to bring a yoghurt,
normally you would have your snacks at very specific times but suddenly they just brought him this blueberry or blueberry yoghurt and then he made a really good move and Karchnay who for various reasons was quite suspicious thought
that this must have been a code and whatever the flavour of the yoghurt was going to be that was telling him what kind of move he had to make.
And then Karchnay later on he did say
that it was a joke and he was trying to sort of parody the fact that people are always blaming each other of cheating but the truth is