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Chess Whiz

Chess Whiz
Clip: 425827_1_1
Year Shot: 1967 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1759
Original Film: 040-031-08
HD: N/A
Location: Flensburg, West Germany
Timecode: 00:50:47 - 00:51:29

6 year old Jutta Hempel of Flensburg, West Germany, takes on a dozen local chess masters in a mass match, simultaneously. She's a phenomenon, winning nine, drawing one, dropping only two. She's been playing since she was five and now feels ready for the world's best. MCU Cute lil' chess wizard JUTTA HEMPEL looking deep in concentration. Jutta Hempel playing seven games of chess simultaneously, making moves along a line of chess boards. Her competition are five middle-aged men, one woman and one boy. They watch as she moves along the table. She then turns to a table behind her and continues making moves at another seven chess boards. Jutta playing chess. Jutta putting old man in check; exasperated, the old man raises his hands defeatedly in the air, as though he never saw the move coming.