It's far from perfect, but one can turn on closed captions with the <CC> button on youtube, and then use the <Settings> button to select the <CC subtitles> to turn on the <auto-translate>. You can then select <English> (or whatever) from the drop-down list.

Thank you both (especially you, beatgiant)! I thought I could retune the subtitles, but I didn't figure out how.

I'm amazed that google translate can do as good a job as it does - but a good translation is a work of art.

So far I only have this humble example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wz... (talking about "Match of the Century" - 1972)

Can someone point me to a better example?

Is that photo among the many shown in <Sally>'s link?

<A letter delivered to me on December 10 made quite a difference to my subsequent life. In it, Mihail Botvinnik asked if I could organise a few simultaneous displays for him after the tournament at Hastings. I publicised his request and invitations poured in from clubs all over the country. Within a week, I had collected nearly 30. He had originally proposed to stay on for ten days or so. I cabled asking him if he could stay until the end of January. Finally, of 47 clubs who wanted him, I was able to satisfy a meagre 16. The job of turning down the heartrending appeals from the others was one of the saddest I have ever had to tackle.

At the moment of writing, he has taken on a total of 205 opponents in Bournemouth, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sunderland, Glasgow, Bellshill, Middlesbrough and London. Many of his opponents have been of British Championship standard; several have represented Britain (or Scotland) in international encounters. Of the 205 games, he has won 170, drawn 29 and lost only 6; an overall percentage of precisely 90 per cent.

Such a score is, of course, no surprise to anybody familiar with his record.

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In simultaneous play he does not "blitz" opponents like Tal or Petroshan. He plays each, to begin with, as if he were facing a master. He likes to take on exactly 25. He then adopts a cycle of five different opening moves, repeated five times. Thus on boards A, B, C, D, E his openings will be different but on board F his opening will be the same as on A. There are certain subtle advantages in this method. I must try it out myself. I have feeling, however, that I still might not get Botvinnik’s results.>

<A combined team of 25 Leicestershire and E.E.C. Quarry Chess Club members forced 10 draws against Russian chess genius Dr. Mikhail Botvinnik in a simultaneous display in Leicester on Thursday. Dr. Botvinnik, world champion from 1948 to 1963 with two intervals, and winner of the recent Hastings Chess Tournament, said his opposition in Leicester was the strongest he has met on his current tour of Britain. So far he has won 89 per cent of his games on the tour.>