{"id":95078,"date":"2020-10-22T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-queens-gambit-makes-chess-exciting-again\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T14:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:16:58","slug":"the-queens-gambit-makes-chess-exciting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-queens-gambit-makes-chess-exciting-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;The Queen&#8217;s Gambit&#8217; Makes Chess Exciting Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;The Queen&#8217;s Gambit&#8217; Makes Chess Exciting Again<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em>Hello and welcome to\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Up Next<\/em><\/strong><em>, a weekly column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,\u00a0<\/em><em>Liz Baessler<\/em><em>\u00a0takes a look at\u00a0the Netflix mini<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> The Queen\u2019s Gambit.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>It\u2019s a tall order, creating a compelling, sexy, gripping chess drama. It\u2019s not an undertaking for the weak of heart, or for the weak of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>.  You might even, if you were looking for a punchy title tie-in, call it a gambit. <\/p>\n<p>Netflix has made its mark by producing an outlandish amount of original content. This strategy gives creators room to make series that might otherwise not see the light of day, but sometimes it also results in shows that miss the mark. <em><strong>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/strong><\/em>, a miniseries made up of seven hourish-long episodes that don\u2019t shy away from showing <em>a lot <\/em>of chess, could easily have been one of those misses. <\/p>\n<p>But by god, <em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> actually manages to pull it off!<\/p>\n<p>Based apparently very faithfully on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, the show follows the life of chess prodigy Beth Harmon (a fantastic <strong>Anya Taylor-Joy<\/strong>). Orphaned at nine, Beth learns the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> from her orphanage\u2019s janitor (<strong>Bill Camp<\/strong>). She shows an almost preternatural ability and uses her gift to pull herself up from nothing and into the exciting, alluring world of 1960s professional chess. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right. <\/p>\n<p><em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> is pure fiction. Beth Harmon never existed, and maybe chess tournaments have never been quite as thrilling as it makes them out. But it plays like a biography, enough so that it\u2019s easy to expect the real Beth, now in her seventies, to make a knowing cameo appearance. That\u2019s because it doesn\u2019t hit the standard beats of the fictionalized coming of age story, although it flirts with them. Instead, it takes you on a captivating but believable journey from Beth\u2019s childhood to early adulthood as she rises through the ranks and defies expectations. <\/p>\n<p>One area that\u2019s less believable is how little Beth has to struggle as a woman. The story of a teenage girl in the \u201960s entering what was (and still is) very much a male-dominated game, the show would have every right to concentrate on matters of gender and the constraints of the time. And it doesn\u2019t do away with them entirely. There\u2019s a very definite \u201csomething\u201d in the air every time Beth enters a room of confident men and proceeds to mop the floor with them. But it\u2019s far from the main focus, and frankly, that\u2019s something of a relief. Maybe it\u2019s a bit of a fantasy, but it\u2019s a nice one, in which society isn\u2019t Beth\u2019s de facto nemesis. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also something of a tactical decision, as it clears the path for Beth\u2019s real nemesis: herself. <\/p>\n<p>Struggling with substance abuse from a devastatingly young age, unaccustomed to failure, and with a single-minded interest in the game that could easily be called obsession, Beth is a fascinating character, portrayed by Taylor-Joy with a beautiful mix of laser focus and youthful exuberance. You find yourself cheering for her, even as every win pushes her a little closer to falling apart. <\/p>\n<p>And you <em>do <\/em>cheer along with the chess matches, even if you don\u2019t know the first thing about the game (I, for one, can\u2019t win a game). The show throws out theory and vocabulary like it\u2019s candy \u2014 the title teaches you one opening move for free \u2014 but that\u2019s almost beside the point. It\u2019s a story about chess that happens to be about chess. It\u2019s not that much of a stretch to imagine the exact same show in which Beth is the world\u2019s best at tennis. Or maybe topiary sculpting. <\/p>\n<p>That is to say, it\u2019s a universal story in all the best ways. A bildungsroman about a genius that celebrates its particular field instead of gatekeeps. That fosters excitement, rather than blind you with complications. Of course, it doesn\u2019t shy away from the chess element. It shows an incredible amount of onscreen playing. And when the characters aren\u2019t playing chess, they\u2019re often talking about it. But they pump so much life and interest into it, and Beth\u2019s passion for it is so tangible, that it\u2019s difficult not to get swept up in it all.  <\/p>\n<p>You care about Beth and want to be a part of her world, so you find yourself, possibly in spite of yourself, caring about chess.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit <\/em>makes the world of chess seem, god forbid, <em>glamorous. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It also tells a heck of a story of rarely-checked genius seen through a remarkably human lens. It is, all things considered, one of the best results of Netflix\u2019s wide-cast content net in a while. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> premieres on Netflix on October 23rd. <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/the-queens-gambit\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-queens-gambit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#&#8217;The Queen&#8217;s Gambit&#8217; Makes Chess Exciting Again&#8221; Hello and welcome to\u00a0Up Next, a weekly column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week,\u00a0Liz Baessler\u00a0takes a look at\u00a0the Netflix miniseries The Queen\u2019s Gambit. It\u2019s a tall order, creating a compelling, sexy, gripping chess drama. 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