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Your move
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Your move
very entertaining.Originally Posted by Sanlmar
you should check out the saqqara tomb
Last edited by mulva; 11-01-2020 at 01:00 AM.
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.
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
Last edited by GrenadaRoger; 11-01-2020 at 03:10 AM.
(long before there was a PFA i had my Grenade & Crossbones avatar at DD)
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.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Holy shit. Who is this guy?
He's super cute. Would totally leave my Sicilian open... if ya know what I mean...
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.
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
Im 4 episodes in so far.
Good stuff.
and fyi this is coming from someone who knows virtually nothing about chess
Watched the entire thing the day it came out last week.
I was a top rated junior chess player in my early teens, so I found it extra enjoyable.
I wanted to see her tits real fucking bad 9/10
Slava Ukraini!
Really good, and a perfect use of the miniseries format.
Been playing loads of chess all week after this.
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Susan Polgar brought a chess championship to Texas Tech of all schools.
Checked out episode 1 last night...... ended up binging through the first 5.
Can’t wait to finish it up.
This show got me back into playing chess.
And because of that I'm getting constant youtube recommendations on the Botez sisters.
What a coincidence, it got me back into taking Valium washed down with Gin.
A show about chess doesn't sound very exciting, but everyone seems to love it, so I'll give it a shot.
My wife doesn't play chess and she loved it.
Actually my girlfriend told me today, "There's a good show which kind of reminds me of tournament poker", and mentioned The Queen's Gambit.
She has never played poker, and has no desire to ever play, but noticed the similarities. She said I should watch it. I told her that tons of poker players were already watching it and raving about it, so she was definitely on the right track.
Anyway, given that there seems to be such universal acclaim, I'll watch it.
In the 1980s, a musical called Chess was created by Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus, and Benny Anderson, which attempted to portray a fictional Cold War era chess battle between two grandmasters -- one American, one Russian. It started in Europe, briefly made it to Broadway, but flopped. It was revived in Europe a few years ago. To Americans, it's best known for producing the strange '80s hit, "One Night in Bangkok", which is also about chess.
That was the last time I noticed chess in popular culture, prior to this.
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