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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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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I mean it's certainly not that there haven't been plenty of chess greats who were all kinds of messed up in their personal lives But the drinking and pill popping absolutely doesn't make sense (it's like portraying an NBA champion who gets drunk and hung over before a game)
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So if he's saying chess skill is directly linked to intelligence, is he saying he's less intelligent than a home computer running Komodo-8?
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At the subsequent Gibraltar Masters, this game got awarded the Best Game Prize: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1814027 …
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