[TV] Netflix : The Queens Gambit

[Questions]

Apologies if there has already been a thread on this series although I checked and didn’t see one.

Firstly what an astonishing seven part series this is. It’s a good solid starter but picks up to form the best tv I’ve seen this year.
Anya Taylor Joy is astonishing as Beth Harmon a chess prodigy from the late 60’s emerging in a male dominated world. Even if you don’t have the slightest interest in Chess - my wife didn’t - it still keeps you pinned ( see what I did there chess fans) throughout.

Highly recommended.

Touches of Tom Ford but so much more in this.

 

[Stat Brother]

Keep up at the back.

The Netflix fred has been full of this for a couple of months.

 

[essbee1]

I always get my prawns moved up asap and the two horses next to cover.

 

[Jim D]

So, it's on Netflix but has nothing to do with 'The Crown' then?

 

[AmexRuislip]

So, it's on Netflix but has nothing to do with 'The Crown' then?

No, but they'll still be a Queens speech on Netflix, probably thanking her subjects in the empire.

 

[Questions]

Keep up at the back.

The Netflix fred has been full of this for a couple of months.

Sorry Stat. I don’t read every thread on here..... but I’m off there now. I knew there would be a 60,000 poster lurking for my error...

 

[Questions]

So, it's on Netflix but has nothing to do with 'The Crown' then?

What’s The Crown then Jim ? And dont say about 5 Bob or 25p in new money.

Anyway it’s brilliant......The Queens Gambit I mean

 

[SAINT ELVIS]

Its a pub in Chatham

 

[SAINT ELVIS]

In Cootham on the main road to Pulborough

 

[Questions]

In Cootham on the main road to Pulborough

Not if you refuse to take that road............. ( god I’m on fire today)

 

[SAINT ELVIS]

I'll see you on the road to Damascus

 

[Dick Swiveller]

Apologies if there has already been a thread on this series although I checked and didn’t see one.

Firstly what an astonishing seven part series this is. It’s a good solid starter but picks up to form the best tv I’ve seen this year.
Anya Taylor Joy is astonishing as Beth Harmon a chess prodigy from the late 60’s emerging in a male dominated world. Even if you don’t have the slightest interest in Chess - my wife didn’t - it still keeps you pinned ( see what I did there chess fans) throughout.

Highly recommended.

Touches of Tom Ford but so much more in this.

Only watched by fools, mate.

 

[Grombleton]

Apologies if there has already been a thread on this series although I checked and didn’t see one.

Firstly what an astonishing seven part series this is. It’s a good solid starter but picks up to form the best tv I’ve seen this year.
Anya Taylor Joy is astonishing as Beth Harmon a chess prodigy from the late 60’s emerging in a male dominated world. Even if you don’t have the slightest interest in Chess - my wife didn’t - it still keeps you pinned ( see what I did there chess fans) throughout.

Highly recommended.

Touches of Tom Ford but so much more in this.

I'm 3 episodes into this at the moment and loving it.

 

[Questions]

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Only watched by fools, mate.

Oh dear ..... could be a long knight

 

[Badger Boy]

I also enjoyed the series. Will there be a second? I presume so, given how successful it has been already.

 

[Official Old Man]

Was The Queens Gambit based on any true events?
They mentioned a few chess players but I do distinctly recall them mentioning the Deep Blue, a chess playing computer, and yet this was not around until 1985/89

 

[Doonhamer7]

It is a great series

 

[Goldstone1976]

Was The Queens Gambit based on any true events?
They mentioned a few chess players but I do distinctly recall them mentioning the Deep Blue, a chess playing computer, and yet this was not around until 1985/89

No - it’s based on a novel. There are some vague similarities between the protagonist and Judit Polgar, and some of the male players have some vague similarities with real players, most especially Fischer. The historical players they refer to are however real: Capablanca, Alekhine etc. Impressively, all the games that she plays are real games from a variety of players including one in which the post-game analysis by another player shows a variation that Kasparov (a consultant to the series) found which is better than the original game.

 

[Questions]

Was The Queens Gambit based on any true events?
They mentioned a few chess players but I do distinctly recall them mentioning the Deep Blue, a chess playing computer, and yet this was not around until 1985/89

Benny is loosely based on Bobby Fischer I read.... I can’t see it personally as Fischer was massively funded by the USA to beat the Russians at their own game.....I don’t remember the Deep Blue reference.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

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Oh dear ..... could be a long knight

I do have a checkered history of posts like this - they tend not to be black or white.