The Queen’s Gambit

[Sanlmar]

Netflix

Your move

[mulva]

Netflix

Your move

very entertaining.

you should check out the saqqara tomb

[gimmick]

Entertaining enough few episodes in. For real life female child prodigies the Polgar sisters are likely the best known, but their origin story is more like the Williams sisters. Their father spotted enough talent to devote his life to getting them to the top.

There's are documentary on the works about Judit Polgar and Garry Kasparov. Judit is the youngest and most accomplished of the sisters. Kasparov was a child prodigy himself and did enough for Russian chess culture that he's still alive. He has publicly opposed Putin since forever.

[GrenadaRoger]

early episodes look like the world i grew up in---clothes, cars, schoolrooms, general scenery, attitudes and general ignorance/oppression...what a shitty world it was!

the chess was legit

[sonatine]

my semi guilty pleasure since finishing this series has been watching analysis of the games on youtube.

regarding the series itself i got choked up like a bitch constantly, really great stuff.

[sonatine]

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[Sanlmar]

regarding the series itself i got choked up like a bitch constantly, really great stuff.

Reacted same way you did to this. Loved it.

Now Timex is making bold moves. (This is Timex Mike McDonald?)

I need to think again about what I saw and perhaps check out some other reviews.

Rounders and Queens Gambit are both period pieces about their respective games. It never occurred to me to make the comparison though.

[Dan Druff]

early episodes look like the world i grew up in---clothes, cars, schoolrooms, general scenery, attitudes and general ignorance/oppression...what a shitty world it was!

the chess was legit

Yeah, the first episode really makes the '50s look bad -- unlike a lot of 1980s films like Back to the Future which glorifies the era as charming and fun.

I've thought of what life would have been like if I was born in a different decade -- both before and after I was actually born. The 1950s kinda seems like a crappy time to have grown up. Medical and dental technology was pretty bad then, too. We take it for granted nowadays how far we've come in these areas. Even the 1970s were already substantially better.

[Krypt]

Fantastic show thus far, really enjoying it.

[Texter]

Entertaining enough few episodes in. For real life female child prodigies the Polgar sisters are likely the best known, but their origin story is more like the Williams sisters. Their father spotted enough talent to devote his life to getting them to the top.

There's are documentary on the works about Judit Polgar and Garry Kasparov. Judit is the youngest and most accomplished of the sisters. Kasparov was a child prodigy himself and did enough for Russian chess culture that he's still alive. He has publicly opposed Putin since forever.

Susan Polgar brought a chess championship to Texas Tech of all schools.

[Daly]

Checked out episode 1 last night...... ended up binging through the first 5.

Can’t wait to finish it up.

[BetCheckBet]

This show got me back into playing chess.

And because of that I'm getting constant youtube recommendations on the Botez sisters.