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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It was the massive press around the Polgar sisters' success and their insistence on consistently entering the mainstream tournaments rather than bowing to pressure to play in the women's tournaments that ended up making this no longer an acceptable reason to decline a match
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I guess in the timeline of the show, Beth is their universe's Judit Polgar and the revolution comes earlier But they clearly are downplaying what a big deal it would be
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