Game of Pawns (game show) Dealing in everything from celebrity cars to antique guns, they never know just what – or who – will walk through the door next. At Branson Pawn, every day’s a gamble. Scott and Brian give each customer three questions. If they get two of the three right, the customer gets their price. If not, the house wins and Brian and Scott get their price. This show runs on the Discovery Channel globally as re-runs and had its debut in 2013 with eight original episodes. Game of Pawns was produced by Highnoon Entertainment, a production company in Denver, Colorado, that has
John Littlewood (chess player) John Littlewood (chess player) John Eric Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006. Perhaps his most famous game was the one he lost against the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the Hastings International Chess Congress 1961/2. Littlewood launched a fearsome attack which Botvinnik was able to defend only by means of a tactical finesse. Botvinnik chose to include the game in his autobiographical "Best Games 1947–1970". John Littlewood was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1931, the fourth of his eleven