New Tricks (TV Series)

The English Defence (2014)

Nicholas Lyndhurst: Danny Griffin

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Danny Griffin : [about chess]  Did you know there are three hundred and eighteen *billion* possible positions after our first four moves each?

  Gerry Standing : Don't try and blind me with science. It's a simple game.

  Danny Griffin : And that the number of distinct forty-move games is greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.

  Gerry Standing : Just make *one* move, will you!

  Danny Griffin : Yes, of course, right.

  [moves his queen] 

  Danny Griffin : Checkmate.