Does the Queen's Gambit Accurately Represent the Chess World?

Except for a few minor details, like "speed chess" instead of "blitz chess", and having 1 GM analysis helper, with 4 casual players, it was pretty good.

@bizarreguest your parents might be uncomfortable about you watching it. Always worth asking though 😁.

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Holy cow.

It's not that bad. It's just 5-6 scenes out of the whole series.

Actually, addiction is THE overarching theme of the series, and is is definitely not suitable for 11-year-olds..

She beat a 2,150 in her first tournament. Not sure that’s realistic.

Then a bunch of masters and only became 1,800.

They call 1. d4 the Queens Gambit. Quite poor when that’s the name of the show.

Lots of king tipping.

There seem to be some very basic things she misses in analysis when she’s beating masters.

She beats a lot of GMs in under 30 moves, doesn’t really happen often.

I think it overall gets the feel right though and only geeks care about the accuracy.

well i am not a fan of women's chess

but you can check judith's games; they are more realistic

and netflix directors aren't chess players

That is exactly how we did it back in the day in Swiss system tournaments. Every player would have a card with their round by round results. Those would be sorted by score and seeding, and you would make the pairings for the round and write them on a sheet of paper.

11 year-olds should not learn about addiction? Or do you mean that the show glamorises the addiction rather than showing it to be a problem for her?

I mean that these are complex problems. She is addicted to chess as well as she is addicted to that tranquilizer, so are both bad? Or just the second? She also occasionally lies and steals to get her fix (drugs repeatedly, and also that chess magazine). What do you say to that? 11-year olds are not well equipped to deal with this kind of stuff.

On the other hand, the show has enough straightforward positive messages that are suitable even at that age, about trusting yourself, about friendship, about girls not being inferior.

So, realistic?

I recently read that chess boards are selling out in stores across the world because of this series. I would say it had a very positive influence on the Chess World community. Kudos to the makers and actors in the film.

I think there's a small mistake. When Mr.Shiabel was teaching Beth Harmon he played the move d4 against her and he said that this is the Queen's Gambit, but the queen's Gambit is 1.d4 d5 2.c4.This small mistake doesn't really change anything in the back story but just wanted to tell everyone about this small mistake

The series very accurately depicts the state of chess in the early 60’s. The books author also wrote “The Hustler” and “The Color of Money”. Two other top notch movies made from his books. Walter Tevis was a chess enthusiast/player and researched his writing. He got some things wrong in the book but irrelevant. The director and producers got it amazingly right. Remember - it’s a story of the 50’s and 60’s Life and times. Chess is used as a backdrop and was not intended to be of primary focus. It’s a story of growing up- becoming all you can be despite hardships early in life.

This is the appeal for the general public. The dramatic story of overcoming seemingly impossible odds. Chess is used as the medium and is not the primary focus of the story.

The public was engaged in the “Cold War - Fischer /Spassky”. The match was followed by most everyone - including non players. Similar to the phenomenon called Beth today.

A prediction for the sequel surely to come.

Beth marries the cowboy. Their offspring enters into today’s world of internet play !

You mean a whole nother series perhaps next year?