'The Most Dangerous Match' in 12 Minutes | Recap - S02 EP07 | Columbo 

Dudek was just the nicest guy. There was no malice in him at all. He wasn't a blackmailer, he wasn't holding something over the killer, he wasn't trying to cut him out of a will, he was just a guy who happened to better at chess than the antagonist. But treated him with nothing but respect and kindness.

"You're talking as though he were already dead" that's such a poignant line

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The most sympathetic victim in the entire series. Dudek was a loveable character.

This was another excellent Columbo episode loved how he held dog after he ran upstairs & the finale when he was delivered the line if would be easier if I didn't have to shout! Excellent script & delivery by the lieutenant.

Jack Kruschen was a joy to watch in this episode.........Another classic episode where Colombo beats the "Genius".....Even as a kid I loved the restaurant scene.

Laurence Harvey died later the same year they filmed this, 1973.

8:14 1973 dining table, Ashtray, Real Candle and Booze.......Ashtrays and Real Candles once super common in many restaurants but not so much today....Plenty of Booze still being served though.

Love this episode, but it was academic for me. As soon as I saw Laurence Harvey's devious, menacing look along with his evil 70's hair, I KNEW he was gonna kill SOMEBODY! 😆 Great cast for this one! 👍

Columbo doesn't play by the rules. He makes his own.

I notice if something is important to the case Columbo will learn about it to catch the killer. He acts a bit slow but he is quite intelligent

Cleaning lady: locks herself into the hotel room Chess genious: "yes, its alright, you can go into the room"

A huge grinding machine like that would cause vibrations that everyone would feel . A deaf person could easily tell if it was suddenly turned off .

8:50 I though Colombo was erratically chasing the murderer 🤣

Columbo should have investegated the OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson cases

No matter how many times I would see the ending, I get a little anxious as if I'm in the argument with those 2 until the revelation happens.

The only columbo episode where the victim dies in columbo's presence.

Killing your opponent to get out of a chess match is a bit extreme. Surely he could gave thought of a better way to avoid it.

I can’t help but wonder if the relationship between Linda and Emmett had something to do with Emmett’s fear of losing.

Laurence Harvey is always interesting in everything I’ve ever seen him in. Unfortunately that’s only like 4 things

great episode

Chess is easy to win when you play both sides

Love Columbo❤️❤️

The worker who told Columbo that his dog would not have been hurt if it fell into the trash shredder appeared in several other Columbo episodes.

Send Colombo to Idaho.

I'm not a grandmaster to say the least, but the chess at the start - all you'd do is move the queen back to cover the King, yeah you lose the queen but your bishop comes back on the diagnonal and takes the rook and danger averted.

he won his own game

Now all we need is for Hikaru to try this on Magnus Carlsen :D

I think out of all the villains he is by far the worst one, not in terms of acting just in terms of motive. Usually it's greed or ambition but here it's failure, that's his big reason to kill someone. Most killers on Columbo are evil, he's just pathetic.

If he is deaf what good is a hearing aid to him? So presumably he was not totally deaf.

7:36 The didn't catch the reflection of the cast showing in the mirror.

I have to disagree with the chess moves...

It's tragic Laurence Harvey died seven months after this episode debueted

would have said to him "blimey mate. if the chess match means so much to you i'll throw it"

why on earth would anyone opt to watch a recap of a great episode, instead of watching the entire thing. This must be for young generations with no attention span (might still be too long for them)

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One of the weakest conclusions. He definitely could have felt the vibrations stop. If that were the only link, in a time before genes and forensics and stuff, this guy would be free 😂. I love Columbo though, so he MUST solve the case! 🎉

lol at 7.36, the people in the mirror

Most of the actors in these episodes have since passed on. The cycle of life continues on.

Wait, idk chess, but _why_ did his queen _have_ to take his bishop? Couldn't he have moved it to the left or right and kept his queen save?

0:47 Black does not have to move his bishop. He can block the check with his queen instead and there is no checkmate, although White is a piece up.

Love these stories, but on occasion they have plot holes big enough to fly a Concorde through. In this episode, how does the deaf villain, whose hearing aid has gone out of service leading him to bungle the murder, lure his victim to the scene of the crime with a telephone call that same night? Moreover, if Mr. Dudek was on medication, wouldn't his prescriptions have been in Russian? Either the young lady, who spoke Russian, would have written the prescriptions in Russian herself, or if they were in English, when the villain got to Dudek's hotel room, how would he have been able to interpret the Russian medications to align with whatever English he had written down in order to substitute the right ones? The drama was fun, the performances entertaining, but the plot is like something someone came up with over breakfast and went right to production.

In real life "Dudek" outlived "Clayton" by 30 years. Lawrence Harvey died the same year from cancer. He was probably already seriously ill when he was filming. Jack Krushen died in 2002.

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The toilet articles are very suspicious

Instead of the black Queen taking the Is white Bishop, all he had to do was back the queen up 1 square and it would not be threatened anymore.

When Dudek's associate (doctor?) is on the phone, he says a bunch of stuff that's supposed to be foreign, but out of nowhere, he says "Duddy Kravitz." I have never read anyone talk about that.

FACT there was 69 episodes

What if he killed the guy who made that bad toupee instead?

Please don’t letterbox future uploads

Forward with red helmets

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I feel that the dude's ability to kill the other guy showed that he was the best player. The fat guy might've been better at chess, but he was no match for sideburns guy in the game of Life.

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Most shows about chess are so fake. The deaf chess player gets checkmated in two moves. No grandmaster would open that way. So fake.

I like this episode but not the ending, the ending is one of the weakest of the series, along with that episode with the matador

do not smack, Clayton!

The chess in this show was so phony.

do not make stupid smacking sounds, Dudek!

The chess in this episode was horrendous. Very phony

He says a few chessplayers names and he is a great chess grandmaster. Then he gets checkmated with Fools Mate. Thats in two moves. Phony.

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