The Queen's Gambit Immortalizes The Boring Game of Chess

 The Queen's Gambit has made it cool to obsess over chess. You see everyone going nuts for Chess, even if they don't know anything about the game, especially if they don't know anything about the game. It has been fantastic for chess content creators as we have been posting about one thing since October 2020 and getting props for it. What will we do when the hysteria ebbs away and we are left with the reality that Chess is boring.


Is Chess boring? Yes, it is really boring. Don't get me wrong I love the game and have spent large proportions of my time watching chess events in the flesh and online but the game is pretty dull. The actual miracle here is the actress, Anya Taylor-Joy directed by Scott Frank following an adaptation co-created by Allan Scott and Scott Frank of a novel by the greatest sports novelist of all time, Walter Tevis captured the zeitgeist and propelled Chess, warts and all into the limelight.



How long will it take those new fans of Chess to realize that Chess is boring and the grandmasters who play it business people who peddle their chess skills to earn money to feed their families?

Maybe they never will...

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