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 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 th...

  The Queen's Gambit a book by Walter Tevis and a huge Netflix Limited Series is the greatest story ever told about chess. Beth Harmon, the lead character in the story is also probably the single most famous chess personality fictional or otherwise. The interest in Chess has been resurgent and seems to know no bounds as chess set sales skyrocket and everybody seems to have either discovered chess can be cool or has rediscovered the game they left years before and proudly state that they used to play. Anya Taylor-Joy, the Golden Globe winning actress who played Beth Harmon did an incredible job with the character. I have watched and rewatched the show several times and when I see her move the pieces I am convinced she knows how to play chess and is genuinely the chess-playing prodigy she claims to be. Beth's nonchalant attitude and indefatigable determination to succeed was irresistible to watch and seems to have energised and powered the enthusiasm we see for all things Chess n...