so brave of the Post to publish the courageous "girls be dumb" take, wherein Babs concludes that societal factors can't explain the lack of women grandmasters because The Queen's Gambit "shows, authentically, that any kid is welcome at any chess club."https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-the-glaring-flaw-of-the-queens-gambit-that-no-one-wants-to-mention …
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Hell here's UK grandmaster Nigel Short saying the same thing in the distant era of 2015https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3046374/Women-aren-t-smart-play-chess-game-requires-logical-thinking-says-British-grandmaster.html …
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Re: the story making Beth an addict It's blatantly unrealistic, and because it's unrealistic I think it is worth analyzing to a degree why it's there and whether it's gendered That to make her genius interesting Beth has to be really clearly badly damaged in some way
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Oh, I believe Polgar implicitly. I'm a woman who works in the video game industry and plays in heavy metal bands. The thing I found most unrealistic vis-a-vis my own experience in male-dominated fields was that dudes she dated and then beat were supportive of her success.
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Lol oh yeah Polgar absolutely didn't date other chess players Her life isn't much like Beth's at all, although Beth is kind of obviously a tribute to her (she was famous for her red hair in her youth and Anya Taylor-Joy dyed her hair red for the part)
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Kasparov was a consultant and Polgar wasn’t? Ah
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Their two chess consultants, Kasparov and Gandolfini, are both actively doing public "chess celebrity" stuff and Polgar told everyone she was retiring from all that in 2014 But yeah it is not the best look
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Oh, wasn’t he the one who cheated pretty visibly when he was losing to a 18 year old Polgar?
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Yes, the famous "double touch" incident Man he did not cover himself in glory in his interactions with her
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