In the actual show, the first few moves have been changed and are not the same as in this video, but it is irrelevant to the game and the conclusion so I did not include this. Hope you enjoy the game :)
In Chess, sportsmanship is really important. I agree with your comment, it was nice to see that. Not childish tantrums thrown by dudes who lost to a woman.
"The Queen's Gambit" was a great series, and so was this video. As a casual chess player, I never imagined myself watching a 25-min. video on a specific game. But this vid was fascinating, clearly explained, very engaging, and gave me a broader appreciation of the show. Much appreciated.
I am now 70 years old, in my youth I played chess intensively, then not for a long time. I watched this series by chance. It's one of the best films of my life. Everything is right, the actors, the chess, the perfect scenery. It's a very empathic and emotional film in the best sense of the word. Plus a very enlightened film. Nearly perfect! I started chess again as old Mr Shaibel!
I’ve played for decades and then grew disillusioned with it. No chess prodigy I. But this series perfectly captured the life of a chess player. Elizabeth fits the mould perfectly because although she is super star stylish compared to the nerds, she’s every bit as much bitten by chess as I was back in the day. It is totally credible. The photography is great, the chess conversation is real, the music is perfect, the entire series is as close to being perfect as any tv I’ve ever seen. Go back to playing, find yourself someone to inspire ;-)
@@howardtreesong4860 I had this thougth when at one point Beltek gives up on her saying "I am not that smart". It must be cool to be a super talent without years of hard work but many of us can relate more to working decades to acquire a skill and still having to resign in front of these superminds. That would also worth a movie, how to deal with the fact that sometimes even if you dream big and work hard for it, you may be denied and you still have to carry on somehow.
@@koborkutya7338 You raise a good point. There’s a couple of things here. On the one hand you see the stars, in whatever field, excel at what they do. What you don’t see is the years of slogging it out, the frustration, the failures. It’s very much about perseverance. Michael Jordan once made a Nike commercial in which he sums up his failures. It’s those failures that gave him the determination to carry on regardless and become the champion that he was. On the other hand, much though it’s painful for some: there is the factor of raw, innate talent. Combined with the willingness to improve through hard work, that will find a superior expression, and it’s going to be on a level that most people can’t. Today you can learn about General Relativity in school, that doesn’t make you an Einstein-level genius that can come up with the theory (because it’s pretty freaking hard to wrap your head around if you’ve never heard about it) and prove it. Those are different things. To come back to you: how does a non-genius cope with the idea that they’ll never be a master-level chess player, or famous in another field where it’s the talent that makes the difference? It is the understanding that there’s more to life than just that one thing. You can be contributing to your community. You can be the rock of the family, the person everybody goes to for help and support. You can be a mentor to a kid who turns out to be a great (you name it), who later reflects on you as a positive force in their life who directed them towards the higher goal. Most people, I’m really thinking everyone, has the potential to excel in something they do. And be at peace with the fact that what they do is something they’re really good at and which contributes, in whatever form it takes, to the lives of others. We’re a social species. If we can contribute positively to the lives of others, that’s a life well-lived.
It's such a bizarre experience as a noob to understand everything that is happening in this video while simultaneously knowing absolutely nothing that is happening in this video.
Yeah the movement of the pieces is quite easy to understand as well as how check mate works, but reading the game is the difficult thing. Its an insanely difficult game but still pretty easy to follow as a noob, weird lol
@Alejandro Herrera Barboza I thought it was a fantastic metaphor for today's youth and how prominent things like Adderall and Ritalin are with kids these days. I doubt that's what the show intended but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
@William Banda not 100% sure but I think that’s what they were kinda going for, regardless who played the character I think the idea was to kind of love/hate her because of how good she was at chess and getting fucked up. Idk for sure I enjoyed the character and the actress
@@Tommyknocker46 I remember reading the novel (many moons ago, when I was much closer to Beth's age than I am now :) and feeling the biggest gut-punch when he died without Beth ever going back to visit.
Damn. I thought I was the only one. I even told my girlfriend I cried during the end of the series. She stil has 2 more episodes left to watch. Best thing is we play chess together though.
what I liked about this series was the fact that you didn't even have to understand chess to enjoy it. This series was about a young girl's life and how she overcame her personal demons.
@@justVontadeh lol. Imagine disregarding a subjective interpretation, when a single sentence doesn't include everything at issue from an art piece with a 7 hour runtime, when your interpretations are not even mutually exclusive, or yours that much more elaborative...
@@AlanSanchez-tv2mj Oh this show is a gas! Too fun, I was in stitches. My absolute favorite scene was when she's in the park playing the lightning-fast timed games. her opponent tries to share a helpful piece of advice with her, which she of course gets offended by, and suddenly her anger enables her to start winning all of the lightning fast games. The power of anger! Lol for a show that wanted to portray men as antagonistic ("Men will try to teach you things!"), we get one very passive aggressive antisocial competitor in this fictitious lady, scene after scene.
@@brassattacks2411 Imagine misinterpreting it this much... Half the advice her mother gave her turned out to cause her damage. For example, "men will try to teach you things". Well in the end she understood that she needed all the help she could get and was eager to accept it. Hell, she won because she trained with the guys in NY and later her male friends helped her to analyze the positions over the phone. Stop seeing agendas everywhere.
And Fischer Vs Spassky when Fischer played 1. C4 instead of his usual E4 in their notable world championship match that transposed into the Queens Gambit
@@ayushgupta0010 Not a hundred percent sure, but I think that could've been a Nakamura game, although like you, I recalled another f6 queen sacrifice besides Nezhmetdinov's.
I also was a bit scolding when he told her to resign if she loses her queen, where GM Ben Finegold might tell most beginners never to resign because that's the only way to guarantee your own loss, but Shaibel was very cognizant of the places she was going in the chess world and knew he ought to teach her to play respectfully at a high level rather than immaturely dragging a forgone game out longer than necessary.
Sheibel, being an avid chess fan probably followed her career and tourneys. His $10 dollars got her winning the Kentucky State Championship. He died knowing his protege was world class chess player.
Well, the series was based on a book, and for a second series there would be no book to back it up. I think they're smarter than to try to recreate Season 8 of Game of Thrones 😂
But what about the secret message Borgov was supposedly going to give to Harmon (said by the American bodyguard on the plane), I think they have left it open to a continuation especially as she chose to get out of the car at the very end, potentially for reasons other than to simply go for a walk?
@@casastrophicmedia4056 The bodyguard said they MIGHT try to give her a message, but it's just government agents doing what they do best: be paranoid. Borgov does give her his black queen piece along with the handshake after the match, but there is no reason to believe it contains any kind of message. It was just a gesture of respect and admiration. She chose to get out of the car because she couldn't stand the bodyguard's diatribe of how she "beat the soviets at their own game". Chess is a game for everyone and which belongs to everyone, not to the "soviets". At the end we see that she sat down to play chess with random people (the old men at the square) for fun. We see that she has learned to love chess for its own sake.
It was just incredible when she looked at the ceiling in the end and doing her "magic" without the benzos. All the episodes up to that moment I was wondering if her chess skills were just some strange side-effect to the drugs. Awesome message
@@nikolaiandre5751 some psychoactive substances can give you hallucinations or, at a lesser level, strong visualisation abilities. Secondly, they change the way and speed at which a person's mind works, and how different parts of the brain communicate. It's absolutely plausible that a person could be better at chess when they have taken something than when they are totally sober.
The drugs aren't real but what It does is it calms the person whoever intakes it and whoever gets an overdose can cause hallucinations and visualisations. But Beth could actually do that herself if she can be calm without the pills. Also that's actually what I thought but the drugs only helped her visualize the board it wasn't the drug doing the board effect but it was herself she just couldn't keep herself calm to be able to do it. And boi do I wish I could do that
@@jebbishop3 Huh? there doesn't need to be cases, i've explained the mechanism. It's a fact that some substances give you hallucinations or at least strong visualisation abilities. It's also a fact that some substances change the way and speed at which your mind works. Neither of those are disputable. There may be a debate to be had as to whether the specific sedatives used in the show would have those effects, but there's no question that some substances do have those effects. Regardless, I did find someone talking about their experiences playing chess on different substances: www.chess.com/forum/view/general/this-is-how-different-drugs-affect-my-play And a study showing that some substances make you better at chess: en.chessbase.com/post/proven-performance-enhancing-drugs-for-chess
To reply to this thread; every drug can in fact be a performance enhancing drug, the pills they used in the show did not exist but they did point out later that those pills were actually a type of a benzodiazepine. Now I have first hand experience with *sharpening* my mind with opaites+benzos (don't do them anymore, but if i was to, i do absolutely know how to use them as tools). Now perhaps the most unbelievable thing in the series is the fact that she had been taking these substances for a prolonged period of time and then just stopped with no extreme or even minor withdrawal symptoms more so, she managed to keep playing chess the same if not better. In reality this could never happen, but then again the whole thing is a work of fiction. And one more thing, you can use different substances to CLEAR and SHARPEN your mind if you know how to dose and you know how your body and mind reacts to these substances, what really kind of bothered me is when she said that her mind needs to be clouded.. because certainly, you will cloud your mind if you take a dose that will just make you absolutely fucked up, but if you want to cloud your mind you can easily do it without drugs just by thinking about all of your insecurities and anxieties :) That being said, if you have never tried any psychoactive substances, you're better off keeping it that way, either way, it's not worth it, even if, for example you use some drug so you can study better or do exams easier or engage in anything mentally challenging.. it's not worth it, sooner or later you will have to make a decision; do i continue using for the rest of my life, which will result in an earlier death (among many other horrible factors) or do i stop, which will result in you possibly succeeding or not (either way it will take a lot of time to get off), or do i stop living. Be careful.
know loved that the movie showed the warmth of the Russian people to an American champion. It reminds me of how they loved the American pianist Van Cliburn when he won first place in a piano competition in Moscow, in 1958, during the Cold War. Which reminds us that our gripe, if we have a gripe, is not with the people of Russia or China or the United States, but with their Governments.
yeah i was there with a student exchange, a poor part of russia but the people there were really hospitable and so much nicer than the cold people they're ofter portrayed as. not everyone is, and i experienced that too, but people are still people, no matter where you go
I wholeheartedly agree with your comments. I was lucky enough to visit China about 5 years ago and couldn’t agree more. The people were kind and generous. As an American I would love to visit there again as well as Russia. To hell with politics!
The people of modern china or the USSR overwhelmingly support/supported their governments. Please consider if you've been deceived by about a century of inti-communist propaganda and the reality is much more nuanced than you've led to believe.
@@АзаматСулейменов-ш4р Hi, speaking from my personal experience, people are basically all the same no matter where they live. That’s why, the original comment has to be seen outside of the geo-political realm. Again, only an opinion... peace. ✌️
@@cinegraphics she won because the writer needed to convey that she was struggling with substance abuse as a means to improve her play, which is a completely fine complication to come about a slice of life style series, this complication had been set up since the start of the show.
@@cinegraphics Sorry about this reply, I literally just woke up, I thought this was the starting game between her and beltik at the kentucky opening, didnt even see that dudes face right
@@JarutheDamaja He didn’t care about the money, he cared about chess and Elizabeth. She felt guilty not because of the money, but that she never showed him real gratitude for teaching her and propelling her into what her life became.
@@0xf7c8 Why do you think? The sole person sworn to protect her betrayed her trust, tried to kill her and abandoned her. Of course she had trouble caring for others when she has such trust issues. I feel bad for you if you fail to understand human nature so poorly. The dots aren’t hard to connect.
I loved the way the queen's pawn struggled across the board and became a queen. At times it was supported by other pieces and pawns. Seems to reflects Beth's progress in life. There can't be many games at this level where a pawn reaches the queening square!
0:00 Hello everyone 0:58 Spoiler alert 1:291:48 Without further ado 2:274:41 Double attack 3:27 Castles castles 3:48 Bust open the position 4:516:1614:2920:08 Captures captures 13:46 Not captures, without captures 5:49 Bonus question 9:09 Improving the position of the king 9:43 Very interesting position 12:06 (Completely new game) 13:05 Completely crazy position 16:53 Staring at the ceiling 19:28 Completely blunders the game 20:28 Give you a couple of seconds 20:40 Enjoy the show 22:42 It was in this position 24:09 Chess historian on Twitter 25:33 Morphy saga
@@sublimesense7761 When AlphaGo made that move, the commentators (6p professional masters) -- and the rest of the Go world -- were stunned thinking the computer made a mistake. It was revolutionary.
1. Bobby Fischer's game 6 opening vs Spassky in World Final 1972 2. Mikhail Tal's knight sacrifice against Botvinik in World Final 3. Rashid's queen sacrifice considered to be one of the greatest moves in chess history 4. Spassky's applause for Fischer's masterpiece in game 6, world final 1972
Fascinating! I didn't realize they were playing "actual" games. Just thought they were moving pieces at random to make it "look" like they were playing. Makes me appreciate the series that much more.
@@goodial ahhh, perfect. I was wondering this whole time how the games were constructed. I noticed a bit of the time the moves were accurate so I appreciated that aspect. Just wasn't sure how advanced the moves would be for the show.
This show is a great example of how working with experts on the topic improves the show. Wish we'd see more about that. For example, working with HEMA experts when making a movie/show where there are fight scenes set in medieval europe.
The show's also a great example of appealing to a wide audience on so many different levels. I was fascinated by this game analysis but had no idea real games or strategies were even being shown while enjoying the series. I'd watch it again just to see this type of play by play analysis after each episode.
What i absolutely loved about this series is that it was a real story with flawed human beings, they arent perfect they have their own individual problems like all of us do to one degree or another. It wasnt those perfect people that never makes a mistake. What also was great was that it wasnt the brain thrust behind her winning the game for her it was her winning the game of her life, she had some help on the way for sure but she won it with her own moves and decisions in the end. She had her own problems and they almost did her in but she managed to overcome it in the end and even find some catharsis in doing so, it wasnt the drugs making her win it was her all the time. I sincerly hope we will be blessed with more series like this one, this was very well done. Another great element they captured in the series is that she had to humble herself in order to win, her arrogans worked when she was young and had not real competition, but in order to rise to the top arrogans doesnt work you need people on your side, and you have to face the grim reality that maybe you arent the best after all and be willing to accept help.
I very much enjoyed that all the significant characters were fleshed out. In fact the story was an exercise in misleading first impressions. For instance, I expected her adoptive mother to be more manipulative but she actually cared about Beth and was a more astute observer than early impressions led me to believe. Pretty much every character was more than I expected. They were all too real. There are still talented people in the movie industry though trolling through Netflix's lineup could lead you to believe otherwise.
@@kimghanson yes the mother especially, at first it it seemed like she was just using her so she can get free money from her, but then she actually cared, maybe she was still using her but it seemed more like she truly cared about her love for chess
Exactly! the fact that the humans in the show all had problems made the show sooo real and really hit home. Everybody made mistakes, and even mrs. Deardorff you kinda start to feel sorry for her in the end. Her mother wasn't perfect by any means either
I'd played chess in the past, but this show inspired me to really get into it, and learn actual openings and more about general chess strategy. I never would have thought I'd become this appreciative of how beautiful this game is.
A few of my friends have gotten into it again after years without playing, and I am doing the same thing! I'd never really learned anything about openings before, but I love how the show hinted at what you should do if want to learn from scratch so that anyone can get into the game.
Same, long edit: I was on the swim team, tennis captain and seed 1 at my high school, but once I got to college, man all sport and chess were lost to me. And now that I'm an accountant (5 years), I hardly ever play anything, except maybe the guitar and playstation if that counts as a legitimate hobby... sometimes, I just day dream about playing golf in the beautiful lawn courts near the office building (with all the retired rich folk), I think this day dreaming is what started it all: golfing, painting, writing, playing guitar again and tennis (I swim at the gym, it's the least punishing exercise)... chess was just totally forgotten hey, like just missing in this 2021 hobby equation. Downloaded a chess game on the AppStore and started brushing up after watching The Queen's Gambit. And now here I am, watching videos in a corner of UA-cam I never knew exists! Lol 😂 Another thing is covid has restricted many of these hobbies so I guess it's a great time to play chess again. 👑
I've been to many chess tournaments when I was young and it was amazing to see how perfectly they captured the spirit of competitive chess. Amazing show
I cried a lot during this series. I am adopted and did live in an Romanian orphanage until I was 5 (which was old then). Really connected to this series because I made a friend who is 68 his name is Tito he lives 4 doors next door. I am now 26 and was moved by this film. Also I am currently playing a guy at chess online from the Czech Republic :)
Hey Al, you probably had a really tough childhood and the connection with the movie must have been strong and compelling. I felt really moved, too. But hopefully you're having much better life now and enjoying the games with your friend from my country. Greetings from Czechia to Romania;)
i too am strongly drawn to orphan lead characters! there's really not a lot out there who are adults! this is quite accurate as she was quite old when her mother died and probably have solidified her personality already!
Loved the Netflix series. Taylor-Joy was just mesmerizing. Something with her eyes. I read the book after watching the series to see what was changed, and the series is pretty faithful. There are some minor differences but nothing major. Interestingly, the game against Borgov is not the one shown in the series. The game in the book involved exchanging queens and the end game sounded more similar to the final seen in Searching for Bobby Fischer. That was a great movie too.
The book was written in the mid-80s and the game was played in the early 90s, so it would've been pretty impressive if the author of the book had been able to base the final game on the actual game....
In the actual show, the first few moves have been changed and are not the same as in this video, but it is irrelevant to the game and the conclusion so I did not include this. Hope you enjoy the game :)
Marcin Dorocinski as Borgov, was 'beyond intimidating' as her antagonist on the board! Great actor! unknown and underrated even! Imo Anya Taylor-Joy and Marcin Dorocinski are very potential winners for the next Emmy Awards on Best (female?)leading actress in a series and best support-actor. Dibs to the writer of the original book too, and to the Director of this show! This was a surprise! I was sceptical about 'yet another Strong Female Character in the lead'(not again...), yet this was a másterpiece!
The most powerful game in the series is Beth's game against Luchenko. He shows gracious respect for her, and joy at his own defeat. After the game, Beth tells him she has always studied his games. Luchenko says he may have just played the best chess player in his life, and asks how old she is; Beth starts to say "Twenty ..(something)", but Luchenko stops her and says "Don't say it. It will only drive the stake deeper into my heart. He then bows to her graciously, and smiling. This, from the Luchenko who had played the great Alexander Alekhine to a draw.
The show provides an excellent jumping off point for those interested in how someone becomes a chess "master". Researchers who study how people acquire skill in some area have focussed a lot of their study on chess. It's not so much that chess demands more thought than, say, neurosurgery or sub-atomic physics or public policy or even baking, but it is easier and more straightforward to rank chess players than it is to rank surgeons, nuclear physicists, policy advisors, or chefs. The internationally-recognized ranking system allows researchers to compare players with *this* range of rankings against players with *that* or some other level of rankings, and examine what it is that each group/level does or doesn't do when they think through a game, how long they have been at it, and so on. Beth's singular focus on chess, and particularly her imagining boards/games on the ceiling, while lying in bed, are realistic. Maybe not in the way they are depicted cinematically, but in the manner that she mentally engages in games off-line. This is quite typical of people who develop expert skill in some field, whether it is chess or a musical/mathematical savant of the "Rain man" variety. Their actual participation in the activity, and how much time they have spent doing so, is certainly important, but the constant going over alternatives in their mind, is equally important. It could be a more efficient cut in surgery, the missed rebound at the net in a hockey game, or it could be "the note I should have played" during a rock guitar solo. All are features of people who acquire expertise in some narrowly circumscribed area, including chess. Of course, since we can't see what is going on in their heads, when they're not engaged in the activity they are expert in, we come to the mistaken conclusion that it is somehow instinctive and innate for them; a "gift". It's not. We know that it is the product of thousands of hours of dedicated study and thought. "But I've put in thousands of hours too, and I'm not nearly that good, so it *must* be a gift hardwired into their brain." Nope. The time invested certainly *matters* but a big part of it is what experiences occur in what order, such that the learner's knowledge about the area becomes well organized and interconnected. In Beth's case, she had many tutors, starting with the janitor Mr. Shaibel, and continuing with the other players, not to mention the books, who piled "a-ha" moments one atop the other. It's the rapid access to relevant knowledge, and the ability to quickly separate the relevant from the irrelevant that makes the difference. In that respect, there is nothing different between what Beth or Benny's characters do when playing "speed chess", and what a hockey or basketball player does when approaching the net and assessing what pass and to whom will take advantage of an emerging opening, all with a few tenths of a second. One of the godfathers in the study of expertise, K. Anders Ericsson, passed away earlier this spring. If you find the study of experts and chess experts interesting, look up his work.
@@argandzero0 Yup. I've been an observer of the research on expertise for some 30 years or so, and often had to disabuse students of the idea of "innate talent" in my courses, when I covered the area of skill acquisition. One of the classic studies in cognitive psychology was a 1966 memory study of chess experts and novices by Groot. When tested for their delayed recall of chess-piece positions on a board, chess experts wiped the floor with chess novices. But that advantage was NOT reflective of some sort of better memory in general. The advantage only held for *games interrupted in progress* and not randomly-placed pieces. Unlike the novices, who were obliged to remember "the white horsey thing was X spaces in, the castle-tower thing was over there, and the black salt-shaker-looking piece was over there...", chess experts simply had to store the image as the "1958 Hungadunga-vs-Schlitz opening gambit", and that would allow them to mentally reconstruct the board in all its detail. In effect, their expertise/knowledge made the memorization task *simpler* for them, hence their better performance. When the pieces were randomly placed, however, there was no measurable difference in memory between experts and novices. The late Anders Ericsson has a nice short summary article on the phenomenon on the Florida State psychology department website, for those interested: psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericssonk/ericsson.mem.exp.html As much as I was pleased to see the series "make chess sexy again", I was equally pleased to see the manner in which it drew attention to just how someone becomes really skilled at something. It's a fascinating topic, whether it's about chess, juggling, videogames, or baking.
@@markhammer643 Thank you, I'll look into that which you've provided into further detail, but my confusion only lies in whether, those novices could potentially perform on the level of a said "early prodigy".
The series was a treat, but it was made even better by admagator - his channel is unmatched ... a true gem! The creativity of my play has been unleashed by his insightful analysis of classic and modern games. Kudos! A minor but very personal footnote: my father, Dr. Fred R. Payne is the historical figure of Harry Beltik, as he was the youngest Kentucky state chess champion at age 20 in 1951. A USAF fighter pilot instructor and later an aerospace engineer, educator and computational physicist, my father taught all three of his sons to play chess before age five. He also taught most of the local primary school kids back then, but my brothers and I were the scourge of Fort Worth TX for a decade. Lessons learned over the board proved essential to our careers in medicine-biophysics, abstract mathematics and wartime tank command/criminal investigation. My highest esteem to Mr. Redic for his commitment to the bountiful traditions of chess!!
I'm a casual chess player, but this series, this series will steal all the awards, everything from the writing/storyline, acting, production, editing, soundtrack, employing chess masters ffs, absolutely the best mini series of 2020, and top 10 over the last 10yrs. I've already watched it twice, and I know a third is coming, just trying to give it some room to breathe, so yeah, Netflix, this wasn't just a home run, or a touchdown, or whatever sporting metaphor you want to use, this was a statement, that you are indeed a serious player within the industry, and to borrow from Connor McGregor, "we're not here to take part, we're here to take over" : )) P.S. I subbed because like many of us out there, I need to scub up on my own game, so thanks for the content, a brilliant walkthrough of the pivital moment, very much appreciated.
I only managed to watch like 20 min of the show and got bored. The premise of the show makes even more boring, a chess player with an addiction problem... Wow, like imagine this: a rock star with an addiction problem... Nothing is new just different domain. As for top 10 over the past 10 years, that is pushing it way to hard. I could find more than 10 shows better than this in the past 10 years. Just on netflix you could probably find more than 10, so when you start to count the world and other networks... This show just reminds me of Ratched, how extremely boring and long it is.
@Gillmore Africa That is completly fine, pretty some stuff i like, you don't. But to put in the top 10 of past 10 years is pushing it. You need more people then just chess player niche to make it that high in the ranks :P.
@@Vwapz imagine a gm trying out an obsecure gambit line he has never played but knows about because that's how arrogant the gm is, tries to hard to remember the ideas of the gambit instead of looking at the board objectively, then messes up the order or something to a mate
I finished watching the serries yesterday, went directly to youtube thinking: " Agadmator must have already covered this." Did not find it yesterday, but here it is! Awesome!
To be honest, as a Chess enthusiast, I find this show a great opportunity to make Chess more popular as it also shows why you should also think about life decisions.
@ well personally I've found that after getting into chess over the past year I find myself evaluating decisions I make in a similar manner to how I evaluate moves in games. I'm turning 20 next year so maybe that's just my brain developing, but I find myself thinking about different choices I'm faced with similar to how I think about moves in Chess positions, thinking of different consequences like variations of a certain line. I know that probably sounds super pretentious but that genuinely has been my experience.
@@deftrascal1626 sorry dude, as much as I wish that were true, the science shows that it's just not true. scientifically, getting better at chess only helps you with chess.
Agadmator: "I'm not going to spoil the way game was analysed after adjournment for those who didn't see the show" Also agadmator: "So this way Elizabeth Harmon beats the world champion..."
Thanks for the show. I am Russian, born in the USSR, since childhood I have played chess like everyone else. In each courtyard there were tables where the chess battles of the elderly were going on. I watched this great series and fell into nostalgia. Scott Frank low bows to you. And then they are tired of their propogandous films, smart people will understand.Спасибо !!!!!
Hopefully the show brings some awareness and popularity back to chess. The scenes of the Russian public glued to every move, standing outside in the cold... the mere fact that they even understood the play was a testimony to a great chess nation.
Yes! Those scenes caught the spirit of the Cold War. Russians, freezing their butts off outside, playing dozens of games. Meanwhile, a herd of dudes in a dank NYC basement apartment are her seconds and the only people in America that care. Until she wins. Then America loves her.
It did, the FIDE said they have seen a massive increase in interest in the game. Kasparov also said he believes it had a massive impact too. What's even better is that the FIDE said that this is only part of a "boom" in chess that started in the 90s. I got this information from a CNN article. This game is so amazing and I hope it lives on.
This was an excellent commentary. All of Antonio’s commentaries are fantastic, but this one I particularly enjoyed (even despite never having seen the show).
for we all need Jesus, all sin and fall short of The glory of God and the wages of sin is death. the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, for Jesus died on the cross and rose again and by His blood our sins are forgiven. there is no other way than Jesus for He is The Way The Truth The Life and no one comes to The Father except through Him. for it is by declaring with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you are saved see romans 10:9-13, i encourage you to read your Bible and invite The Holy Spirit to guide your mind as you read, john romans psalms luke and mark are good places to start. God bless God Jesus The Holy Spirit love you and be with you forevermore in Jesus Name we pray amen :) only One God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ i am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. galatians 2:20 in Jesus Name we pray amen, pray for the peace of israel pray for those who are persucated for righteousness sake for their is the kingdom of heaven see matthew 5:10 pray for the brethren pray for me in all things praying for you in Jesus Name we pray amen may you believe in Jesus and be saved in Jesus Name we pray amen i encourage you to repent of your sins turn from them and come to believe in Jesus for it is by declaring with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you are saved and all who truly put their trust in Him will never be put to shame in Jesus Name we pray amen in Jesus Name we pray amen (see romans 10-11) for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, no one is promised tomorrow and Jesus alone saves all in Jesus Name we pray amen God bless God Jesus The Holy Spirit love you and be with you forevermore praying for you pray for me in all things through trials and temptations and sin and to be more Christ like everyday for Jesus is perfect and the same always in Jesus Name we pray amen Jesus loves us all and died and rose again to save us all for by His blood our sins are forgiven, it is God's gift to us to be saved for we do not deserve it and we can not earn it but when we believe in Jesus we are saved and have passed over from death to life with God and Jesus forevermore in Jesus Name hey only God Jesus The Holy Spirit are perfect and only One God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we can be made righteous when we come to Jesus for while we have sinned and fall short of The glory of God Jesus The Holy Spirit but when we believe in Jesus and come to Him our sins are forgiven and we can turn from sin and wickedness and live a life worthy to Jesus in Jesus Name we pray amen Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? micah 6:6-8 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. john 14:6-7 do not use The Lord's Name in vain instead honor God love God with all heart soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself, believe in The One God has sent Jesus Christ for this is The Work of God in Jesus Name we pray amen That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. romans 10:9-13 only God Jesus The Holy Spirit are perfect and when we come to Jesus we can be saved for by His blood our sins are forgiven and when we believe we are saved, i encourage you to read your Bible for it alone is God's Word for us and invite The Holy Spirit into your life for it is God's Word and Spirit that give light and life to all for Jesus is The Living Word and all who believe in Jesus are saved and have passed over from death to life. they re no longer separated from God for eternity but have life and peace with God and Jesus forevermore, instead of being condemned to the lake of fire we have life in the new heaven the new earth and the new jerusalem where there is no more death or mourning or sorrow or crying or pain or sin for Jesus bore them all on the cross taking them away forevermore and when we truly believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior we are saved in Jesus Name we pray amen come into The Kingdom of Light accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior today amen amen For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son john 3:16-18 come to know Jesus today He died on the cross for our sins and rose again, so we can live with Him forever because He loves us, by His blood He has victory over sin, death and hell amen. God Jesus The Holy Spirit love you and be with you forevermore amen God bless amen :) :)
This show's greatness comes from the attention to detail, I love how the actor playing Borgov actually copied the way Kasparov touches/fixes his pieces before the game starts. Also, this show made a lot of us want to learn chess properly but watching your videos I realized how complex and deep it is.
@@srinikethshyamal8553 true, I've already learnt the basics such as development, midgame, endgame. But I'm afraid of the deep learning involved as I've always been an intuitive player in Go
@@hibye-by3yb There's only deep learning as you reach higher levels. Playing intuitively will work fine. Just jump into a match on a chess website and after a couple games you'll get matched up against players of similar skill level.
This mini-series was immensely fun to watch, and seeing this makes me admire the effort put into it more, and I love the events that were based on actual things that happened. This video should be official bonus material with the show. Thanks a lot. I'm not a Chess player, but I occasionally watch your channel and it's always insightful.
@@petyaes17 I'm referring to the chess match moves, and the stand ovation. I understand these are different people and the characters here are totally fictional. But they borrowed from real life events.
@@reservoirfrogs2177 when it comes to her career I do think it's pretty exaggerated, not only because she's a woman (I'm not trying to be sexist, but it's a fact that there is a considerable difference between women and men when it comes to chess), but also because of her trajectory which seemed so easy and quick, it would take a HUGE effort to reach that kind of level.
Although, I watched the series but, honestly, you revealed about the help Harmon gets during adjournment. That was actually one of the most beautiful moments of the series.
Literally just binged watched the first three episodes and can't sleep now all of the sudden you post this! Welcome back to the good stuff captures captures
22:58 The Russian champion that Agadmator was talking about is Boris Spassky who lost game 6 to Bobby Fischer for the world chess championship and then Boris gave an standing ovation to Bobby as a respect because game 6 was truly a masterpiece and for Boris who dedicated his whole life to chess, to play such game even when you are losing, well enjoying the thrill is all that matters. Pls do check game 6 of Bobby vs Boris world chess championship
I’ll definitely look for the game with such great review I like Fischer’s games from what I’ve seen of them kind of new to watching Grandmaster games couple months now but I always enjoy watching the great skill they play with and the brilliant moves they come up with it
Hikaru's chat on Twitch once trolled him of seeing the ceiling while playing games and he showed to everyone by taking picture of the ceiling and posting it on Twitter. LoL
That is a strange idea. The point of chess is that it is incredibly easy to learn. There are a number of moves but there’s not that many rules. It shouldn’t take you more than an hour to learn how the moves work. There are also no unknowns, that is the total mesmerising beauty of the game: everything is on the board, no hanky panky, no luck factor, no hidden pieces. It’s all right there. What chess is, next to being real easy to learn, it is exceptionally hard to master, even on a grandmaster level. You would have all the tools you needed to play a regular game against a grandmaster and not make mistakes against the rules inside of an hour. You would never beat them if you didn’t put in some serious studying and had that talent. I have played many girls and women (I started age 12), I have never accepted the idea that ‘women can’t play chess’. That’s just nonsense. There is no reason why you wouldn’t be a fine chess player (not grandmaster level) if you put your mind to it. People who don’t understand the game don’t appreciate how brutal and aggressive it is. You have to sit down at a board for some time to get a feel for the stone cold murderous violence that is taking place.
@@howardtreesong4860 The doctrine of “take no prisoners” is always in full-effect🤨. But the “unknowns” can best be described in the case of pre- Deep Blue computing power of the mid to late ‘80s, wherein the designated computer of the day would take (if playing White’s opening gambit) 6,000,000 million years to work through the permutations allowing for, presumably, e4... since e4 is “Best by test”... -Fischer 🤔😇). -J
This might be the first intelligent chess-related film ever. Usually the games are finished with the word "mate", as if super strong players miss that in long games. (Dont mention Kramnik vs comp!)
“I suppose , in the end , the whole of life becomes an act of Letting Go ….. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say Goodbye” "RIP to the Oldman in the basement And the woman who adopted beth"
Beth and Mr. Shaibel head a much deeper connection and became a big part of each other's lives, 10 dollars and a few pleasantries notwithstanding, they gave each other a 'raison d'être'. They changed each other's lives immeasurably and permanently, for the better. Beth only became fully aware of this towards the end of the series, whereas as Mr Shaibel knew it all along.
Fun fact - The games in the series look real and accurate because all the actors are actually playing the games instead of acting. Garry Kasparov helped design the final game
@@coolmendotdot2 Nope, Kasparov helped the creators design the final game. All the games shown in the show were actual games being played between the actors, that's why they are accurate games with no illegal moves or any mistakes
Your explanation is a bit confusing as stated by the two gentlemen above, why would they be actually playing if all the moves were pre created before? If they're really playing, it would be a random game even if they're pro, if Kasparov help designed the actual game, it means the actors are acting the game moves that was created to make this episode.
This is interesting, acting and playing chess. I bet the actual filming would be fun to see. All that stuff where the director explains the scene, then ACTION -- CUT, and director says No, no, no -- move your pieces like you mean it.
Really beautiful. But one thing in your reconstruction. You went with Borgov accepting the Queen's Gambit, but in the series, the commentator mentioned that Borgov had declined it.
I think, they actually played the Albin CounterGambit with 2. ...e5 and Elisabeth replies with the crazy 3. e4 as far as I remember, which makes the game wild from the very beginning. They did not play a QGA.
The most important lesson can be learned from series is not about chess and all this moves it's about not forgetting where you have started and who supported you at first. I actually cried for shaibel ...
Two of my favorite moments were when the late-arriving Harry said, I can get out of this. She replies, maybe, if you were on time, and Townes, "Harmon, you're humiliating my rook".
As someone who has played next to no chess in their lives but really enjoyed the show, this kind of breakdown of the game being played was very entertaining. Thank you!
@@davejohn255 humiliating? I don't see anything humiliating in getting yout ass kicked at chess by the freaking World Champion. If anything it's an honor
In the actual show, the first few moves have been changed and are not the same as in this video, but it is irrelevant to the game and the conclusion so I did not include this. Hope you enjoy the game :)
Borgov never quite got the respect he deserved, but he definitely was a magnificent player in his day, especially early in his career, and he introduced many new ideas into chess.
@@robertsanders7060 bruh you can stop now, the joke is getting dry. But to answer your question I've heard she was out but then she went back in. I guess the withdrawal symptoms are strong
Not to spoil anything but the series' ending feels like a nod to Fischer taking out the small chess set during the dinner after winning the world chess championship
You think? To me it was just a sign to point out her deep passion, respectfull approach to chess and also a last nod to the person who actually got her into chess. But your take is interesting!
Lack of draws and the tournament system. There weren't so many opens in the sixties and prizes were definitely not that high before 1970. As for the fast classical chess, they had to thread a fine line. On one hand, classical chess is slow in reality. However, it is impossibly to put a slow game into a movie - the whole episode would have been just one game. So they are actually filming moments when they calculated out the variation or are playing a forced variation and play fast, while showing how much time they spent on the clocks.
I think there is another meaning to the title "Queen's Gambit". Elizabeth was the Queen. As she progressed in her ability and moving up in competition, she focused on herself. She actively avoided people and only occasionally accepted any coaching. The Gambit was sacrificing her isolation to accept the help of a team of people who gamed out the moves for the last game. Yes, there was one they hadn't gamed. She had to focus on the chessboard in the ceiling, without the drugs, and see the way out of the trap and how to win. She showed a lot of emotion at the end. Gratitude and comradery with the group who helped her. They were her friends before she became theirs. And her last game in the park was full circle in a way. A game with an old man, an amateur, for fun. So her gambit won. She sacrificed her "queen", and became a healthier human in doing so. Aside from that thought, I really enjoyed the sportsmanship of most of the Russian players when they lost. They gave her a good lesson there, that the game had more to it than just winning. You could appreciate a brilliant move, a brilliant game by your opponent. There is a quote I love (not from the series), "I never lose. I win, or I learn." It starts off sounding arrogant, but it is a really good attitude to losing. If you approach every loss as a learning opportunity that makes you better the next time, it isn't losing. It's a strength. I think they exhibited that quote as a counterpoint to her anger whenever she lost. Her anger made it truly a loss, not a lesson for learning.
Every grandmaster has seconds. That’s how it works. The real talent is having her kind of ability and that’s not something you get from a book. What you get from a book is to expand on the innate talent you have. A grandmaster-level potential who doesn’t study won’t become a grandmaster, at the same time an ordinary player, no matter how hard they study, will ever reach grandmaster level. At the board you can’t read books to find moves, at the board it’s the grandmaster who wins, that’s what they’re a grandmaster for. It’s also true that your opponent can be gracious in loss but that’s not always the case. Chess is not a game for people who can’t stand losing, because they will be doing a lot of that. A great deal of losing, it comes with the terrain.
Bobby fischer played e4 for most of his life which made unpredictable and hard to prepare against and it was in his match against spassy that he suprised everyone when he played The English with C4 and also played some poison pawn variation and Gambits which suprised everyone as fischer is a e4 player not a d4,c4,or Gambiting player
I would do that when I'm visualizing painting. I have a tree outside and in the winter the light paints silhouettes on my ceiling suggesting how to draw intersecting branches.
Explains the entire ending, "I don't want to give away too much". xD haha great vid as usual, thank you for the time you put into presenting many classics for us.
the queen gambit is not solely about chess it is about survival,. being independent, the importance of talent and discipline and friendship. This film is highly recommended for those hopeless people.
I can see now, chess before engine time. It is an incredible game indeed. So much can happen. And the amazing mentality the old master must have. To have one game for several days. To go home to prepare. It just amazing
In the actual show, the first few moves have been changed and are not the same as in this video, but it is irrelevant to the game and the conclusion so I did not include this. Hope you enjoy the game :)
wouldn't queen to G4 help protect his king though?
Thank you for recommending this series. I enjoyed it. :)
Nice game - Nice analysis. It shows that unfortunately great games that end in a draw aren't often remembered.
If she looks like on that picture, she could beat me in anything. Including wrestling.
yes we are interested in a full review of the games of the series
I haven’t cried in years but when she took out that picture with Shaibel in the last episode that broke me
It was the bit where she saw all the photos in the basement that made me cry.
Yes true
He loved her like his own daughter...
@@markg3947 and she didnt even so see him!
I cried as well. He was watching with pride in the shadows :)
Everyone was super respectful in the show and acted like how real people would. It wasnt over dramatic and people wanted to help each other.
I never even watched the show but I agree
In Chess, sportsmanship is really important. I agree with your comment, it was nice to see that. Not childish tantrums thrown by dudes who lost to a woman.
love it. cant stand in movies and TV when there is so much manufactured conflict and drama, people are just assholes for no reason.
@@craigmeikle3818 exactly, the old veteran Russian was so respectful to her and kind of happy that he lost.
There was no pointless drama.
Yes! I loved this about the show. It felt so genuine.
What Elizabeth was gambiting throughout that series was her liver.
Ups. Funny
Lol
She was employing the Fried Liver Attack
@@comradespoon3104 was literally hoping for this reply lmao
😂
"The Queen's Gambit" was a great series, and so was this video. As a casual chess player, I never imagined myself watching a 25-min. video on a specific game. But this vid was fascinating, clearly explained, very engaging, and gave me a broader appreciation of the show. Much appreciated.
I quite agree and feel there are scores of others thinking the same. Myself included.
Too many nubs after the show
Same
@@estolee5485 Are you really thinking that, or is it only for pleasing me?
@@estolee5485 I guessed :)
Literally just watched a whole Netflix series in preparation for this video.
8 hours of preparation LOL
Same lol
Thats the spirit!
Same here lolll
Were the series good?
I actually cried when Beth saw the pic with Shaibel
I cried when I read you comment about Shaibel
Me too.
I cried like a baby. That one hit way too close.
I wished she would later come see him.
Shaibel deserved so much more!
I am now 70 years old, in my youth I played chess intensively, then not for a long time. I watched this series by chance. It's one of the best films of my life. Everything is right, the actors, the chess, the perfect scenery. It's a very empathic and emotional film in the best sense of the word. Plus a very enlightened film. Nearly perfect! I started chess again as old Mr Shaibel!
That's wonderful. Maybe you will find yourself a young protégé.
I’ve played for decades and then grew disillusioned with it. No chess prodigy I. But this series perfectly captured the life of a chess player. Elizabeth fits the mould perfectly because although she is super star stylish compared to the nerds, she’s every bit as much bitten by chess as I was back in the day. It is totally credible. The photography is great, the chess conversation is real, the music is perfect, the entire series is as close to being perfect as any tv I’ve ever seen.
Go back to playing, find yourself someone to inspire ;-)
did u enjoy the sex scenes?
@@howardtreesong4860 I had this thougth when at one point Beltek gives up on her saying "I am not that smart". It must be cool to be a super talent without years of hard work but many of us can relate more to working decades to acquire a skill and still having to resign in front of these superminds. That would also worth a movie, how to deal with the fact that sometimes even if you dream big and work hard for it, you may be denied and you still have to carry on somehow.
@@koborkutya7338 You raise a good point. There’s a couple of things here. On the one hand you see the stars, in whatever field, excel at what they do. What you don’t see is the years of slogging it out, the frustration, the failures. It’s very much about perseverance. Michael Jordan once made a Nike commercial in which he sums up his failures. It’s those failures that gave him the determination to carry on regardless and become the champion that he was.
On the other hand, much though it’s painful for some: there is the factor of raw, innate talent. Combined with the willingness to improve through hard work, that will find a superior expression, and it’s going to be on a level that most people can’t. Today you can learn about General Relativity in school, that doesn’t make you an Einstein-level genius that can come up with the theory (because it’s pretty freaking hard to wrap your head around if you’ve never heard about it) and prove it. Those are different things.
To come back to you: how does a non-genius cope with the idea that they’ll never be a master-level chess player, or famous in another field where it’s the talent that makes the difference? It is the understanding that there’s more to life than just that one thing. You can be contributing to your community. You can be the rock of the family, the person everybody goes to for help and support. You can be a mentor to a kid who turns out to be a great (you name it), who later reflects on you as a positive force in their life who directed them towards the higher goal.
Most people, I’m really thinking everyone, has the potential to excel in something they do. And be at peace with the fact that what they do is something they’re really good at and which contributes, in whatever form it takes, to the lives of others.
We’re a social species. If we can contribute positively to the lives of others, that’s a life well-lived.
I tried staring at the ceiling at night and all I saw was my sleep paralysis demon
lol
LOL
Thanks for making me laugh
Lol
LMAOOO
It's such a bizarre experience as a noob to understand everything that is happening in this video while simultaneously knowing absolutely nothing that is happening in this video.
Lol
that's why its so nice to have highly knowledgeable people explain things :)
same feeling...and it's great :))
Yeah the movement of the pieces is quite easy to understand as well as how check mate works, but reading the game is the difficult thing. Its an insanely difficult game but still pretty easy to follow as a noob, weird lol
Indeed the possible future moves arent available for us until been laid down.
the younger child actor who played Beth at 9 years age was just chillingly real and a great artist.
Agree!!
She was phenomenal
@Alejandro Herrera Barboza it's not meant to be nice
@Alejandro Herrera Barboza I thought it was a fantastic metaphor for today's youth and how prominent things like Adderall and Ritalin are with kids these days. I doubt that's what the show intended but I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
@Alejandro Herrera Barboza it wouldn't be real drugs, just the outer casings which is not the drug.
This series is the best thing Netflix have ever done - I was hooked and binge watched the entire series - now to learn how to play Chess
Same honestly didn’t know what I was clicking when I picked it and was hooked the first 15 minutes definetly broke out the old chess board afterwards
@William Banda not 100% sure but I think that’s what they were kinda going for, regardless who played the character I think the idea was to kind of love/hate her because of how good she was at chess and getting fucked up. Idk for sure I enjoyed the character and the actress
@William Banda You do realize an "Actor" is quite literally acting right? Everyone behaves a certain way according to the script
As a chess player I agree this is the best show I’ve ever seen on Netflix
Amazing acting! Amazing music! Amazing directing! 100/100 show had me in tears in the end powerful show
Borgov: RA4
Magnus:” that shouldnt happen. He had a whole night to prepare for it.”
agadmator: “absolute best move”
*Ra4
Who is right?
@@glorifiedpaper4011 Daniel Klein
Vid of magnus saying this?
@@pitohui9430 search Magnus Carlsen analysis queen's gambit
R.I.P Shaibel, he lived a good life. Even real men cried when they saw that board.
I really hoped she would at least visited him just once before he died, just to take one more picture of the two of them together.
@@Tommyknocker46 I remember reading the novel (many moons ago, when I was much closer to Beth's age than I am now :) and feeling the biggest gut-punch when he died without Beth ever going back to visit.
Damn. I thought I was the only one. I even told my girlfriend I cried during the end of the series. She stil has 2 more episodes left to watch. Best thing is we play chess together though.
I confess....I cried a bit 😢
2nd time i cried on a movie 😭. 1st is the movie hachiko
what I liked about this series was the fact that you didn't even have to understand chess to enjoy it. This series was about a young girl's life and how she overcame her personal demons.
@@justVontadeh lol. Imagine disregarding a subjective interpretation, when a single sentence doesn't include everything at issue from an art piece with a 7 hour runtime, when your interpretations are not even mutually exclusive, or yours that much more elaborative...
she was a character with absolutely no faults. no character arch. they threw in a drug subplot but still she has no character faults.
@@brassattacks2411 that’s absolutely not true lol
@@AlanSanchez-tv2mj Oh this show is a gas! Too fun, I was in stitches. My absolute favorite scene was when she's in the park playing the lightning-fast timed games. her opponent tries to share a helpful piece of advice with her, which she of course gets offended by, and suddenly her anger enables her to start winning all of the lightning fast games. The power of anger! Lol for a show that wanted to portray men as antagonistic ("Men will try to teach you things!"), we get one very passive aggressive antisocial competitor in this fictitious lady, scene after scene.
@@brassattacks2411 Imagine misinterpreting it this much... Half the advice her mother gave her turned out to cause her damage. For example, "men will try to teach you things". Well in the end she understood that she needed all the help she could get and was eager to accept it. Hell, she won because she trained with the guys in NY and later her male friends helped her to analyze the positions over the phone. Stop seeing agendas everywhere.
Knight f4 - tal vs botvinnik world chess championship 1960 game 6
Queen sacrifice- nezhmetdinov vs chernikov
Applause for elizabeth- Boris spassky
And Fischer Vs Spassky when Fischer played 1. C4 instead of his usual E4 in their notable world championship match that transposed into the Queens Gambit
Congratulations your vast knowledge just increased! 100 points for you
Someone has been spending a lot of time accumulating vast knowledge...
@@ayushgupta0010 Not a hundred percent sure, but I think that could've been a Nakamura game, although like you, I recalled another f6 queen sacrifice besides Nezhmetdinov's.
woah I had just watched both "storm of the century" 1960 game and fischer spassky "the applause" games two days ago 10/23
I loved how Shaibel knew she was gifted and sought out the guy to share her brilliance. He was a quiet spirit but had a powerful presence.
I also was a bit scolding when he told her to resign if she loses her queen, where GM Ben Finegold might tell most beginners never to resign because that's the only way to guarantee your own loss, but Shaibel was very cognizant of the places she was going in the chess world and knew he ought to teach her to play respectfully at a high level rather than immaturely dragging a forgone game out longer than necessary.
Goosebumps
Where I live Chess sets are completely sold out. Along with SpongeBob toys. Says much about 2020.
I cant even remember when I saw a chess set in a store
Lmaoooo
why are spongebob toys sold ?
@@thatsnotmyname6677 new spongebob movie i think
You can buy it online
Sheibel, being an avid chess fan probably followed her career and tourneys. His $10 dollars got her winning the Kentucky State Championship. He died knowing his protege was world class chess player.
And $10 out of pocket :(
rip mr sheibel
he gave her $5. she promised him $10 in return after winning.
@@nsan48 im sure she donated to his estate
@@nsan48 Right !
This series is so successful that a second series would spoil it.
Well, the series was based on a book, and for a second series there would be no book to back it up. I think they're smarter than to try to recreate Season 8 of Game of Thrones 😂
i think its a limited series, theres only one season
Nope, no need for a second series or continuation. Maybe a new chess series
But what about the secret message Borgov was supposedly going to give to Harmon (said by the American bodyguard on the plane), I think they have left it open to a continuation especially as she chose to get out of the car at the very end, potentially for reasons other than to simply go for a walk?
@@casastrophicmedia4056 The bodyguard said they MIGHT try to give her a message, but it's just government agents doing what they do best: be paranoid. Borgov does give her his black queen piece along with the handshake after the match, but there is no reason to believe it contains any kind of message. It was just a gesture of respect and admiration.
She chose to get out of the car because she couldn't stand the bodyguard's diatribe of how she "beat the soviets at their own game". Chess is a game for everyone and which belongs to everyone, not to the "soviets". At the end we see that she sat down to play chess with random people (the old men at the square) for fun. We see that she has learned to love chess for its own sake.
It was just incredible when she looked at the ceiling in the end and doing her "magic" without the benzos. All the episodes up to that moment I was wondering if her chess skills were just some strange side-effect to the drugs. Awesome message
Ah Yes, the Well known side effect of drugs: you become a Chess super genius
@@nikolaiandre5751 some psychoactive substances can give you hallucinations or, at a lesser level, strong visualisation abilities. Secondly, they change the way and speed at which a person's mind works, and how different parts of the brain communicate. It's absolutely plausible that a person could be better at chess when they have taken something than when they are totally sober.
The drugs aren't real but what It does is it calms the person whoever intakes it and whoever gets an overdose can cause hallucinations and visualisations. But Beth could actually do that herself if she can be calm without the pills. Also that's actually what I thought but the drugs only helped her visualize the board it wasn't the drug doing the board effect but it was herself she just couldn't keep herself calm to be able to do it. And boi do I wish I could do that
@@jebbishop3 Huh? there doesn't need to be cases, i've explained the mechanism. It's a fact that some substances give you hallucinations or at least strong visualisation abilities. It's also a fact that some substances change the way and speed at which your mind works. Neither of those are disputable. There may be a debate to be had as to whether the specific sedatives used in the show would have those effects, but there's no question that some substances do have those effects.
Regardless, I did find someone talking about their experiences playing chess on different substances: www.chess.com/forum/view/general/this-is-how-different-drugs-affect-my-play
And a study showing that some substances make you better at chess: en.chessbase.com/post/proven-performance-enhancing-drugs-for-chess
To reply to this thread; every drug can in fact be a performance enhancing drug, the pills they used in the show did not exist but they did point out later that those pills were actually a type of a benzodiazepine. Now I have first hand experience with *sharpening* my mind with opaites+benzos (don't do them anymore, but if i was to, i do absolutely know how to use them as tools). Now perhaps the most unbelievable thing in the series is the fact that she had been taking these substances for a prolonged period of time and then just stopped with no extreme or even minor withdrawal symptoms more so, she managed to keep playing chess the same if not better. In reality this could never happen, but then again the whole thing is a work of fiction. And one more thing, you can use different substances to CLEAR and SHARPEN your mind if you know how to dose and you know how your body and mind reacts to these substances, what really kind of bothered me is when she said that her mind needs to be clouded.. because certainly, you will cloud your mind if you take a dose that will just make you absolutely fucked up, but if you want to cloud your mind you can easily do it without drugs just by thinking about all of your insecurities and anxieties :)
That being said, if you have never tried any psychoactive substances, you're better off keeping it that way, either way, it's not worth it, even if, for example you use some drug so you can study better or do exams easier or engage in anything mentally challenging.. it's not worth it, sooner or later you will have to make a decision; do i continue using for the rest of my life, which will result in an earlier death (among many other horrible factors) or do i stop, which will result in you possibly succeeding or not (either way it will take a lot of time to get off), or do i stop living. Be careful.
know loved that the movie showed the warmth of the Russian people to an American champion.
It reminds me of how they loved the American pianist Van Cliburn when he won first place in a piano competition in Moscow, in 1958, during the Cold War. Which reminds us that our gripe, if we have a gripe, is not with the people of Russia or China or the United States, but with their Governments.
yeah i was there with a student exchange, a poor part of russia but the people there were really hospitable and so much nicer than the cold people they're ofter portrayed as. not everyone is, and i experienced that too, but people are still people, no matter where you go
I wholeheartedly agree with your comments. I was lucky enough to visit China about 5 years ago and couldn’t agree more. The people were kind and generous. As an American I would love to visit there again as well as Russia. To hell with politics!
The people of modern china or the USSR overwhelmingly support/supported their governments. Please consider if you've been deceived by about a century of inti-communist propaganda and the reality is much more nuanced than you've led to believe.
@@АзаматСулейменов-ш4р Hi, speaking from my personal experience, people are basically all the same no matter where they live. That’s why, the original comment has to be seen outside of the geo-political realm. Again, only an opinion... peace. ✌️
Also reminded me of the Russians cheering for Rocky in Rocky 4
She only won because she downloaded stockfish on the ceiling in the middle of the game.
Channeling that Hikaru energy
She only won because it said so in the movie script...
@@cinegraphics she won because the writer needed to convey that she was struggling with substance abuse as a means to improve her play, which is a completely fine complication to come about a slice of life style series, this complication had been set up since the start of the show.
@@cinegraphics Sorry about this reply, I literally just woke up, I thought this was the starting game between her and beltik at the kentucky opening, didnt even see that dudes face right
until now, i'm surprised she had sex with beltik
Shaibel was so proud of her..he even made a board dedicated to her. 😭😭😭😭
Shame she didn't pay him back :)
@@JarutheDamaja He didn’t care about the money, he cared about chess and Elizabeth.
She felt guilty not because of the money, but that she never showed him real gratitude for teaching her and propelling her into what her life became.
@@JarutheDamaja I really thought it was implied that she paid him back. LOL A single call from her would have probably made his day.
I hated the Elizabeth character. She had a rough childhood but she only cared about herself.
@@0xf7c8 Why do you think? The sole person sworn to protect her betrayed her trust, tried to kill her and abandoned her. Of course she had trouble caring for others when she has such trust issues. I feel bad for you if you fail to understand human nature so poorly. The dots aren’t hard to connect.
I loved the way the queen's pawn struggled across the board and became a queen. At times it was supported by other pieces and pawns. Seems to reflects Beth's progress in life. There can't be many games at this level where a pawn reaches the queening square!
Not only that, but also a queen sac first, symbolising her killing the "Beth" that is alcoholic and drug dependent, and then reborn as a new queen.
Nice takeaways, both of you!
0:00 Hello everyone
0:58 Spoiler alert
1:29 1:48 Without further ado
2:27 4:41 Double attack
3:27 Castles castles
3:48 Bust open the position
4:51 6:16 14:29 20:08 Captures captures 13:46 Not captures, without captures
5:49 Bonus question
9:09 Improving the position of the king
9:43 Very interesting position
12:06 (Completely new game)
13:05 Completely crazy position
16:53 Staring at the ceiling
19:28 Completely blunders the game
20:28 Give you a couple of seconds
20:40 Enjoy the show
22:42 It was in this position
24:09 Chess historian on Twitter
25:33 Morphy saga
@Luiz Gonçalves Haha nice, and yes I slept a long time today, sorry about that
Lmao the double "without further ado"
"without further ado" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'll come back to this video after I watch the series to avoid some nasty discoveries
😂
Must watch👍🏻
did they connect the rooks?
@@LeventK with all of them
Nice one!
12:03 It is as of move 37, that we have a completely new game.
Completely new *fictional* game :)
Still theory.
That’s a famous move in a go match between a computer and a world champion
@@sublimesense7761 When AlphaGo made that move, the commentators (6p professional masters) -- and the rest of the Go world -- were stunned thinking the computer made a mistake. It was revolutionary.
1. Bobby Fischer's game 6 opening vs Spassky in World Final 1972
2. Mikhail Tal's knight sacrifice against Botvinik in World Final
3. Rashid's queen sacrifice considered to be one of the greatest moves in chess history
4. Spassky's applause for Fischer's masterpiece in game 6, world final 1972
queen sacrifice on f6 thank you!
WHO ARE YOU?
@@Sidguru101 Your worst nightmare...?
5. My queen sacrifice when i was up 3 queens only to still get a stalemate
Thanks!!!
AGAD: who stares at the ceiling more than Vassily Ivanchuk.
HIKARU: am I a joke to you?
Seeing this retarded format of "jokes" makes me wanna puke.
@@ms_gk I suggest not to hold on to it man, it's not considered healthy.
@@ms_gk Family Guy: who wants chowder?
BaMbOoZlEd
@@ryanflanagan9624 lol u gay
Fascinating! I didn't realize they were playing "actual" games. Just thought they were moving pieces at random to make it "look" like they were playing. Makes me appreciate the series that much more.
The sequences where they play through variations on a move to forecast its consequences several moves out is awesome.
Garry Kasparov was a consultant on the series, he helped create the games ;)
@@goodial ahhh, perfect. I was wondering this whole time how the games were constructed. I noticed a bit of the time the moves were accurate so I appreciated that aspect. Just wasn't sure how advanced the moves would be for the show.
not really actual, based on actual games but was redesign by the great kasparov
@@ardinhajihil5011 : It boggles my mind to think that a chess game can be "redesigned"...!
This show is a great example of how working with experts on the topic improves the show. Wish we'd see more about that. For example, working with HEMA experts when making a movie/show where there are fight scenes set in medieval europe.
The show's also a great example of appealing to a wide audience on so many different levels. I was fascinated by this game analysis but had no idea real games or strategies were even being shown while enjoying the series. I'd watch it again just to see this type of play by play analysis after each episode.
yes..unlike some stupid THe ACOLYTE Starwars trainwreck.
What i absolutely loved about this series is that it was a real story with flawed human beings, they arent perfect they have their own individual problems like all of us do to one degree or another. It wasnt those perfect people that never makes a mistake.
What also was great was that it wasnt the brain thrust behind her winning the game for her it was her winning the game of her life, she had some help on the way for sure but she won it with her own moves and decisions in the end.
She had her own problems and they almost did her in but she managed to overcome it in the end and even find some catharsis in doing so, it wasnt the drugs making her win it was her all the time. I sincerly hope we will be blessed with more series like this one, this was very well done.
Another great element they captured in the series is that she had to humble herself in order to win, her arrogans worked when she was young and had not real competition, but in order to rise to the top arrogans doesnt work you need people on your side, and you have to face the grim reality that maybe you arent the best after all and be willing to accept help.
People say she was arrogant, but I didn't ever think so...
I very much enjoyed that all the significant characters were fleshed out. In fact the story was an exercise in misleading first impressions. For instance, I expected her adoptive mother to be more manipulative but she actually cared about Beth and was a more astute observer than early impressions led me to believe. Pretty much every character was more than I expected. They were all too real. There are still talented people in the movie industry though trolling through Netflix's lineup could lead you to believe otherwise.
@@kimghanson yes the mother especially, at first it it seemed like she was just using her so she can get free money from her, but then she actually cared, maybe she was still using her but it seemed more like she truly cared about her love for chess
@@tanler7953 oh eow
Exactly! the fact that the humans in the show all had problems made the show sooo real and really hit home. Everybody made mistakes, and even mrs. Deardorff you kinda start to feel sorry for her in the end. Her mother wasn't perfect by any means either
Everybody's a gangsta
until Beth sees Chess pieces on the ceiling
everybody gangsta ‘till Beth takes enough pills to kill an elephant from an overdose
while sober
@@okyeahbutwhythoe1804 She was stone cold so we during the Russian tournament.
LMAO yes
Well if i learned anything is that am gonna give my kids drugs
“If you have 8 hours free”... spoken from a true UA-camr...
😂😂
hahaha
Well I had lmao. Watched the whole series as a preparation for this game. Little bit bored while infected with the virus...
me, an undergraduate: of course I have 8 hours free
my deadlines in 5 days: interesting
I'd played chess in the past, but this show inspired me to really get into it, and learn actual openings and more about general chess strategy. I never would have thought I'd become this appreciative of how beautiful this game is.
A few of my friends have gotten into it again after years without playing, and I am doing the same thing! I'd never really learned anything about openings before, but I love how the show hinted at what you should do if want to learn from scratch so that anyone can get into the game.
Same, long edit:
I was on the swim team, tennis captain and seed 1 at my high school, but once I got to college, man all sport and chess were lost to me. And now that I'm an accountant (5 years), I hardly ever play anything, except maybe the guitar and playstation if that counts as a legitimate hobby... sometimes, I just day dream about playing golf in the beautiful lawn courts near the office building (with all the retired rich folk), I think this day dreaming is what started it all: golfing, painting, writing, playing guitar again and tennis (I swim at the gym, it's the least punishing exercise)... chess was just totally forgotten hey, like just missing in this 2021 hobby equation. Downloaded a chess game on the AppStore and started brushing up after watching The Queen's Gambit.
And now here I am, watching videos in a corner of UA-cam I never knew exists! Lol 😂
Another thing is covid has restricted many of these hobbies so I guess it's a great time to play chess again. 👑
Townes: shit he isnt doing what he is supposed to. Its literally me every time i learn an opening or trap
LMAOOOOO same, and then I get destabilized the whole game
Should Odell Beckham Jr. Stay with the Browns?
facts
That’s beginners trying to use the four move checkmate
@@jys5219 i think your in the wrong place
The way Agad presents Chess is incredible.
Just finished the marathon about 5 minutes ago and suddenly found this. This channel never failed me.
I've been to many chess tournaments when I was young and it was amazing to see how perfectly they captured the spirit of competitive chess. Amazing show
I play in pinball tournaments and it’s very much the same in almost every way
@@Dmarcoot I did not know there are pinball tournaments
@@Dmarcoot fencing tournaments too. But a lot quieter
Ditto.
@@Apokalypse456 you need help lifting up that rock you live under?
I cried a lot during this series. I am adopted and did live in an Romanian orphanage until I was 5 (which was old then). Really connected to this series because I made a friend who is 68 his name is Tito he lives 4 doors next door. I am now 26 and was moved by this film. Also I am currently playing a guy at chess online from the Czech Republic :)
Bună! I am also romanian and i'm sorry about your past, i'm sure it made you stronger than ever. ❤️
Hey Al, you probably had a really tough childhood and the connection with the movie must have been strong and compelling. I felt really moved, too. But hopefully you're having much better life now and enjoying the games with your friend from my country. Greetings from Czechia to Romania;)
@@irelandwalks3376 > "I -live- have been living in Ireland -from- since the age of five"
- Adûnâi
i too am strongly drawn to orphan lead characters! there's really not a lot out there who are adults! this is quite accurate as she was quite old when her mother died and probably have solidified her personality already!
@@angamaitesangahyando685 Great. Do you think you well become Ireland's second Grandmaster?
I love what the series is doing for the game of chess. Fantastic.
I checked google trends and found that the search term "chess" popped up when this series was launched
I started playing chess yesterday
@@phunweng962 That's awesome man! Hope you are having fun with it! It's a beautiful game
Loved the Netflix series. Taylor-Joy was just mesmerizing. Something with her eyes. I read the book after watching the series to see what was changed, and the series is pretty faithful. There are some minor differences but nothing major. Interestingly, the game against Borgov is not the one shown in the series. The game in the book involved exchanging queens and the end game sounded more similar to the final seen in Searching for Bobby Fischer. That was a great movie too.
I was mesmerized in every scene she was in. What a beauty.
The book was written in the mid-80s and the game was played in the early 90s, so it would've been pretty impressive if the author of the book had been able to base the final game on the actual game....
In the actual show, the first few moves have been changed and are not the same as in this video, but it is irrelevant to the game and the conclusion so I did not include this. Hope you enjoy the game :)
Seriously, she has an insanely magnetic cinematic presence
Marcin Dorocinski as Borgov, was 'beyond intimidating' as her antagonist on the board! Great actor! unknown and underrated even!
Imo Anya Taylor-Joy and Marcin Dorocinski are very potential winners for the next Emmy Awards on Best (female?)leading actress in a series and best support-actor.
Dibs to the writer of the original book too, and to the Director of this show!
This was a surprise! I was sceptical about 'yet another Strong Female Character in the lead'(not again...), yet this was a másterpiece!
The most powerful game in the series is Beth's game against Luchenko. He shows gracious respect for her, and joy at his own defeat. After the game, Beth tells him she has always studied his games. Luchenko says he may have just played the best chess player in his life, and asks how old she is; Beth starts to say "Twenty ..(something)", but Luchenko stops her and says "Don't say it. It will only drive the stake deeper into my heart. He then bows to her graciously, and smiling. This, from the Luchenko who had played the great Alexander Alekhine to a draw.
"one diagonal, one straight" - how perspective changes everything
I was like “what a weird way to describe an L”
I heard that the first time and I were like, huh? And then I thought about it and I was like, wait a fucking second...
That's how I do 🤷♂️
I noticed this too! Truly amazing when I realized that there's another way to see it :)
@@freeshavaacadooo1095 thing is, it is one diagonal and one straight away from the departure point...
The show provides an excellent jumping off point for those interested in how someone becomes a chess "master". Researchers who study how people acquire skill in some area have focussed a lot of their study on chess. It's not so much that chess demands more thought than, say, neurosurgery or sub-atomic physics or public policy or even baking, but it is easier and more straightforward to rank chess players than it is to rank surgeons, nuclear physicists, policy advisors, or chefs. The internationally-recognized ranking system allows researchers to compare players with *this* range of rankings against players with *that* or some other level of rankings, and examine what it is that each group/level does or doesn't do when they think through a game, how long they have been at it, and so on.
Beth's singular focus on chess, and particularly her imagining boards/games on the ceiling, while lying in bed, are realistic. Maybe not in the way they are depicted cinematically, but in the manner that she mentally engages in games off-line. This is quite typical of people who develop expert skill in some field, whether it is chess or a musical/mathematical savant of the "Rain man" variety. Their actual participation in the activity, and how much time they have spent doing so, is certainly important, but the constant going over alternatives in their mind, is equally important. It could be a more efficient cut in surgery, the missed rebound at the net in a hockey game, or it could be "the note I should have played" during a rock guitar solo. All are features of people who acquire expertise in some narrowly circumscribed area, including chess. Of course, since we can't see what is going on in their heads, when they're not engaged in the activity they are expert in, we come to the mistaken conclusion that it is somehow instinctive and innate for them; a "gift". It's not. We know that it is the product of thousands of hours of dedicated study and thought. "But I've put in thousands of hours too, and I'm not nearly that good, so it *must* be a gift hardwired into their brain." Nope. The time invested certainly *matters* but a big part of it is what experiences occur in what order, such that the learner's knowledge about the area becomes well organized and interconnected. In Beth's case, she had many tutors, starting with the janitor Mr. Shaibel, and continuing with the other players, not to mention the books, who piled "a-ha" moments one atop the other. It's the rapid access to relevant knowledge, and the ability to quickly separate the relevant from the irrelevant that makes the difference. In that respect, there is nothing different between what Beth or Benny's characters do when playing "speed chess", and what a hockey or basketball player does when approaching the net and assessing what pass and to whom will take advantage of an emerging opening, all with a few tenths of a second.
One of the godfathers in the study of expertise, K. Anders Ericsson, passed away earlier this spring. If you find the study of experts and chess experts interesting, look up his work.
wow thanks for sharing would definitely look at the works of Mr.Ericsson
I could tell you've sat on this question and concept for quite a while.
Thank you for this comment
@@argandzero0 Yup. I've been an observer of the research on expertise for some 30 years or so, and often had to disabuse students of the idea of "innate talent" in my courses, when I covered the area of skill acquisition.
One of the classic studies in cognitive psychology was a 1966 memory study of chess experts and novices by Groot. When tested for their delayed recall of chess-piece positions on a board, chess experts wiped the floor with chess novices. But that advantage was NOT reflective of some sort of better memory in general. The advantage only held for *games interrupted in progress* and not randomly-placed pieces. Unlike the novices, who were obliged to remember "the white horsey thing was X spaces in, the castle-tower thing was over there, and the black salt-shaker-looking piece was over there...", chess experts simply had to store the image as the "1958 Hungadunga-vs-Schlitz opening gambit", and that would allow them to mentally reconstruct the board in all its detail. In effect, their expertise/knowledge made the memorization task *simpler* for them, hence their better performance. When the pieces were randomly placed, however, there was no measurable difference in memory between experts and novices.
The late Anders Ericsson has a nice short summary article on the phenomenon on the Florida State psychology department website, for those interested: psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericssonk/ericsson.mem.exp.html
As much as I was pleased to see the series "make chess sexy again", I was equally pleased to see the manner in which it drew attention to just how someone becomes really skilled at something. It's a fascinating topic, whether it's about chess, juggling, videogames, or baking.
@@markhammer643 Thank you, I'll look into that which you've provided into further detail, but my confusion only lies in whether, those novices could potentially perform on the level of a said "early prodigy".
The series was a treat, but it was made even better by admagator - his channel is unmatched ... a true gem! The creativity of my play has been unleashed by his insightful analysis of classic and modern games. Kudos! A minor but very personal footnote: my father, Dr. Fred R. Payne is the historical figure of Harry Beltik, as he was the youngest Kentucky state chess champion at age 20 in 1951. A USAF fighter pilot instructor and later an aerospace engineer, educator and computational physicist, my father taught all three of his sons to play chess before age five. He also taught most of the local primary school kids back then, but my brothers and I were the scourge of Fort Worth TX for a decade. Lessons learned over the board proved essential to our careers in medicine-biophysics, abstract mathematics and wartime tank command/criminal investigation. My highest esteem to Mr. Redic for his commitment to the bountiful traditions of chess!!
I'm a casual chess player, but this series, this series will steal all the awards, everything from the writing/storyline, acting, production, editing, soundtrack, employing chess masters ffs, absolutely the best mini series of 2020, and top 10 over the last 10yrs. I've already watched it twice, and I know a third is coming, just trying to give it some room to breathe, so yeah, Netflix, this wasn't just a home run, or a touchdown, or whatever sporting metaphor you want to use, this was a statement, that you are indeed a serious player within the industry, and to borrow from Connor McGregor, "we're not here to take part, we're here to take over" : ))
P.S. I subbed because like many of us out there, I need to scub up on my own game, so thanks for the content, a brilliant walkthrough of the pivital moment, very much appreciated.
I only managed to watch like 20 min of the show and got bored. The premise of the show makes even more boring, a chess player with an addiction problem... Wow, like imagine this: a rock star with an addiction problem... Nothing is new just different domain. As for top 10 over the past 10 years, that is pushing it way to hard. I could find more than 10 shows better than this in the past 10 years. Just on netflix you could probably find more than 10, so when you start to count the world and other networks... This show just reminds me of Ratched, how extremely boring and long it is.
the sets !! OMFG the sets were amazing. if you didn't catch the sets, pay attention on the re-watch. the were utterly glorious
@Gillmore Africa That is completly fine, pretty some stuff i like, you don't. But to put in the top 10 of past 10 years is pushing it. You need more people then just chess player niche to make it that high in the ranks :P.
@Gillmore Africa :P
The people want their feminist fix. Now I have seen a person wanting more feminism in their television. Now I have seen everything.
- Adûnâi
Take notes "Artemis Fowl", THIS is how you demonstrate that a character is a good chess player. Absolutely beautiful.
How is Artemis Fowl related to this?.. something related to the movie?
@Max Williams damn..thanx for replying..
@Max Williams it could happen 🤷♂️
@@nightcorequeen1074 well anything COULD happen, but I think it’s pretty foolish to say a grandmaster would get mated by anyone in 5 moves
@@Vwapz imagine a gm trying out an obsecure gambit line he has never played but knows about because that's how arrogant the gm is, tries to hard to remember the ideas of the gambit instead of looking at the board objectively, then messes up the order or something to a mate
I finished watching the serries yesterday, went directly to youtube thinking: " Agadmator must have already covered this." Did not find it yesterday, but here it is! Awesome!
Never played chess, then watched Queens gambit and now I absolutely love chess
same im addicted to chess now haha.
I wanna be like Beth Harmon when I grow up
Same!
@@badcornflakes6374 you won’t
Congratulations, friend!
Agad: Who stares at the ceiling more than Ivanchuk
Hikaru: Hold my ceiling fan
LMAO!! Hikaru has stockfish on his ceiling
@@arnolourens2030 lol
Lol
To be honest, as a Chess enthusiast, I find this show a great opportunity to make Chess more popular as it also shows why you should also think about life decisions.
@ Strongly disagree. I personally find many parallels between chess and real life
@ Why can't it be both? The fact that life is more complicated than chess doesn't cancel the fact that there are still parallels between them
@ well personally I've found that after getting into chess over the past year I find myself evaluating decisions I make in a similar manner to how I evaluate moves in games. I'm turning 20 next year so maybe that's just my brain developing, but I find myself thinking about different choices I'm faced with similar to how I think about moves in Chess positions, thinking of different consequences like variations of a certain line. I know that probably sounds super pretentious but that genuinely has been my experience.
@@koyaaanisquatsi chess is a board game
@@deftrascal1626 sorry dude, as much as I wish that were true, the science shows that it's just not true. scientifically, getting better at chess only helps you with chess.
Agadmator: "I'm not going to spoil the way game was analysed after adjournment for those who didn't see the show"
Also agadmator: "So this way Elizabeth Harmon beats the world champion..."
Pretty lol. Anyone that clicked on a video that had ‘final game’ in its title who got spoiled. Try again xD
I think he didn't want to spoil the more, yk, non-chess parts. Like how Benny called her and analysed the game and stuff.
But it was predictable.
I feel a bit dissapoint when i realize that the girl never exist in the real life. I was search her biography in wikipedia as foolish lol
read about the Polgar sisters. They are not any less interesting!
I was the same. I really thought it was a true story
@@TheRybka30 Fischer
He would spend long nights romancing the chess board and caressing it, courting the board and its pieces ~ black et blanc
Fischer was the real Beth Harmon, not PC enough though. Netflix needs to replace him with some edgy teen and her racist black friend.
After 8 years of marriage, my wife actually REQUESTED to see what you have to say about this game... miracles do happen!
After 8 years of marriage, my wife actually REQUESTED to see what you have to say about this game... miracles do happen!
After 8 years of marriage, my wife actually REQUESTED to see what you have to say about this game... miracles do happen!
After 8 years of marriage, my wife actually REQUESTED to see what you have to say about this game... miracles do happen!
"And who stares at the ceiling more than Vasily Ivanchuk"
Hikaru: am I a joke to you?
yes, but hikaru only looks at the ceiling because he has stockfish up there
@@toniokettner4821 thats the joke
@@genericusername4206 bro i went with the joke. hikaru obviously doesn't have stockfish on his ceiling, but Beth Harmon does.
nailed it :D
8 billion people with different cultures and systems, they are not same
Neo: do you take the blue pill or red pill?
78 people: I'll take the green pill
Thanks for the show. I am Russian, born in the USSR, since childhood I have played chess like everyone else. In each courtyard there were tables where the chess battles of the elderly were going on. I watched this great series and fell into nostalgia.
Scott Frank low bows to you. And then they are tired of their propogandous films, smart people will understand.Спасибо !!!!!
interesting. Greetings from Poland! Borgov was played by polish actor (Poland) - Marcin Dorociński and I am proud of him :-)
I loved everything about Queen's Gambit. Wonderful.
In a radio interview to "Echo of Moscow" Kasparov said that he designed all the chess games for this Netflix series. So there you go.
Did he also designed her practicing, while she was flying by plane ? Because she really didn't know how the knight moves )))
@@sandroidus5670 episode and timestamp, please? I've must have missed it.
@@sandroidus5670 What episode was this?? didn't catch that
just because you "designed' something all on your own, does not mean that he didn't draw 'inspiration' from others.
@@mufla2636 Ep 3. 11:15. Look at the board and moves. It's a total mess :)
No-one:
Modern Cars: 15:50
amazing
Chapeau.
genius
thats literally so clever wtf
@@emilwallin1176 great minds think alike ;D
Hopefully the show brings some awareness and popularity back to chess. The scenes of the Russian public glued to every move, standing outside in the cold... the mere fact that they even understood the play was a testimony to a great chess nation.
Yes! Those scenes caught the spirit of the Cold War. Russians, freezing their butts off outside, playing dozens of games. Meanwhile, a herd of dudes in a dank NYC basement apartment are her seconds and the only people in America that care. Until she wins. Then America loves her.
It did, the FIDE said they have seen a massive increase in interest in the game. Kasparov also said he believes it had a massive impact too. What's even better is that the FIDE said that this is only part of a "boom" in chess that started in the 90s. I got this information from a CNN article. This game is so amazing and I hope it lives on.
@@bobdagecko it will , chess has a beautiful history I dont think it will die like that. Also thanks to this show it seriously goes up
This was an excellent commentary. All of Antonio’s commentaries are fantastic, but this one I particularly enjoyed (even despite never having seen the show).
Go watch it :)
for we all need Jesus, all sin and fall short of The glory of God and the wages of sin is death. the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord, for Jesus died on the cross and rose again and by His blood our sins are forgiven. there is no other way than Jesus for He is The Way The Truth The Life and no one comes to The Father except through Him. for it is by declaring with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you are saved see romans 10:9-13, i encourage you to read your Bible and invite The Holy Spirit to guide your mind as you read, john romans psalms luke and mark are good places to start. God bless God Jesus The Holy Spirit love you and be with you forevermore in Jesus Name we pray amen :) only One God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ i am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. galatians 2:20 in Jesus Name we pray amen, pray for the peace of israel pray for those who are persucated for righteousness sake for their is the kingdom of heaven see matthew 5:10 pray for the brethren pray for me in all things praying for you in Jesus Name we pray amen may you believe in Jesus and be saved in Jesus Name we pray amen i encourage you to repent of your sins turn from them and come to believe in Jesus for it is by declaring with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you are saved and all who truly put their trust in Him will never be put to shame in Jesus Name we pray amen in Jesus Name we pray amen (see romans 10-11) for the kingdom of heaven is at hand, no one is promised tomorrow and Jesus alone saves all in Jesus Name we pray amen God bless God Jesus The Holy Spirit love you and be with you forevermore praying for you pray for me in all things through trials and temptations and sin and to be more Christ like everyday for Jesus is perfect and the same always in Jesus Name we pray amen Jesus loves us all and died and rose again to save us all for by His blood our sins are forgiven, it is God's gift to us to be saved for we do not deserve it and we can not earn it but when we believe in Jesus we are saved and have passed over from death to life with God and Jesus forevermore in Jesus Name hey only God Jesus The Holy Spirit are perfect and only One God our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we can be made righteous when we come to Jesus for while we have sinned and fall short of The glory of God Jesus The Holy Spirit but when we believe in Jesus and come to Him our sins are forgiven and we can turn from sin and wickedness and live a life worthy to Jesus in Jesus Name we pray amen Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? micah 6:6-8 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. john 14:6-7 do not use The Lord's Name in vain instead honor God love God with all heart soul and mind and love your neighbor as yourself, believe in The One God has sent Jesus Christ for this is The Work of God in Jesus Name we pray amen That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. romans 10:9-13 only God Jesus The Holy Spirit are perfect and when we come to Jesus we can be saved for by His blood our sins are forgiven and when we believe we are saved, i encourage you to read your Bible for it alone is God's Word for us and invite The Holy Spirit into your life for it is God's Word and Spirit that give light and life to all for Jesus is The Living Word and all who believe in Jesus are saved and have passed over from death to life. they re no longer separated from God for eternity but have life and peace with God and Jesus forevermore, instead of being condemned to the lake of fire we have life in the new heaven the new earth and the new jerusalem where there is no more death or mourning or sorrow or crying or pain or sin for Jesus bore them all on the cross taking them away forevermore and when we truly believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior we are saved in Jesus Name we pray amen come into The Kingdom of Light accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior today amen amen For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son john 3:16-18 come to know Jesus today He died on the cross for our sins and rose again, so we can live with Him forever because He loves us, by His blood He has victory over sin, death and hell amen.
God Jesus The Holy Spirit love you and be with you forevermore amen God bless amen :) :)
Great to have you back Antonio! Glad the operation went well, we missed you! :)
The entire show had people showing much appreciation of Beth's talent and how well she played but this video helped me see the brilliance myself!
This show's greatness comes from the attention to detail, I love how the actor playing Borgov actually copied the way Kasparov touches/fixes his pieces before the game starts.
Also, this show made a lot of us want to learn chess properly but watching your videos I realized how complex and deep it is.
Kasparov himself was a consultant at this show
I've not a chess player, don't know anything about chess, but you bet your ass I watched this with keen interest because I'm invested in the show
me too! idk why i spent 26mins almost watching this when i know nothing bout chess but THIS IS SO COOL
@@kcpcme yeah if I watched this show instead of Hikaru no go as a teen I would be playing chess right now
never too late to start
@@srinikethshyamal8553 true, I've already learnt the basics such as development, midgame, endgame. But I'm afraid of the deep learning involved as I've always been an intuitive player in Go
@@hibye-by3yb There's only deep learning as you reach higher levels. Playing intuitively will work fine. Just jump into a match on a chess website and after a couple games you'll get matched up against players of similar skill level.
"Who stares at the ceiling more than Ivanchuk?"
Well that is where Nakamura keeps Stockfish running at all times : )
This mini-series was immensely fun to watch, and seeing this makes me admire the effort put into it more, and I love the events that were based on actual things that happened. This video should be official bonus material with the show. Thanks a lot. I'm not a Chess player, but I occasionally watch your channel and it's always insightful.
Based on actual things that happened? But it's not.
@@petyaes17 I'm referring to the chess match moves, and the stand ovation. I understand these are different people and the characters here are totally fictional. But they borrowed from real life events.
@@petyaes17 many aspects of the story are based on real events. It's a little exaggerated but not much
@@reservoirfrogs2177 when it comes to her career I do think it's pretty exaggerated, not only because she's a woman (I'm not trying to be sexist, but it's a fact that there is a considerable difference between women and men when it comes to chess), but also because of her trajectory which seemed so easy and quick, it would take a HUGE effort to reach that kind of level.
@@petyaes17 bro it's just good stop capping
17:00 who stares at the ceiling more than Ivanchuk
Sad Hikaru: me? :(
Rotfl @ “Sad Hikaru”
nha kid, hikaru has nothing on Ivanchuk
@@TheMegadomino Hikaru vs Ivanchuk with stockfish on ceiling
@@smmshoe take my money!!
@@smmshoe lol
Although, I watched the series but, honestly, you revealed about the help Harmon gets during adjournment. That was actually one of the most beautiful moments of the series.
Literally just binged watched the first three episodes and can't sleep now all of the sudden you post this! Welcome back to the good stuff captures captures
You won't be or already know you won't wont be disappointed
22:58 The Russian champion that Agadmator was talking about is Boris Spassky who lost game 6 to Bobby Fischer for the world chess championship and then Boris gave an standing ovation to Bobby as a respect because game 6 was truly a masterpiece and for Boris who dedicated his whole life to chess, to play such game even when you are losing, well enjoying the thrill is all that matters. Pls do check game 6 of Bobby vs Boris world chess championship
I’ll definitely look for the game with such great review I like Fischer’s games from what I’ve seen of them kind of new to watching Grandmaster games couple months now but I always enjoy watching the great skill they play with and the brilliant moves they come up with it
2:18 Borgov: accepts Queen's Gambit
Me: Omae wa mou shindeiru!
nani?
@@oatglaabacus *slicing noises*
"I've seen much worse movies" really sold it to me there, gonna go watch it now
Much worse chess movies dumbass
@@F4mwp I know dumb ass, I took it out of context
@@F4mwp chess movies are a subset of movies, thus by classical set logic he's seen worse movies is true as well. You are rude to call Vlad a dumbass.
@@zbnmth thank you for defence
lol. the undersell, yeah
Agad: Who looks at the ceiling more than Ivanchuk?
A MAN NAMED HIKARU NAKAMURA
Nah, Chuky beats him at ceiling staring :)
Chuky has been doing it far longer than hikaru, possible before hikaru was even born.
Naka has Stockfish installed on his ceiling
Hikaru's chat on Twitch once trolled him of seeing the ceiling while playing games and he showed to everyone by taking picture of the ceiling and posting it on Twitter. LoL
@@kiloromeo959 haha yeah I remember I was there that day.
i watched this without knowing how to play chess and my brain hurts so bad
Lol
That is a strange idea. The point of chess is that it is incredibly easy to learn. There are a number of moves but there’s not that many rules. It shouldn’t take you more than an hour to learn how the moves work. There are also no unknowns, that is the total mesmerising beauty of the game: everything is on the board, no hanky panky, no luck factor, no hidden pieces. It’s all right there. What chess is, next to being real easy to learn, it is exceptionally hard to master, even on a grandmaster level.
You would have all the tools you needed to play a regular game against a grandmaster and not make mistakes against the rules inside of an hour. You would never beat them if you didn’t put in some serious studying and had that talent.
I have played many girls and women (I started age 12), I have never accepted the idea that ‘women can’t play chess’. That’s just nonsense. There is no reason why you wouldn’t be a fine chess player (not grandmaster level) if you put your mind to it.
People who don’t understand the game don’t appreciate how brutal and aggressive it is. You have to sit down at a board for some time to get a feel for the stone cold murderous violence that is taking place.
@@howardtreesong4860 The doctrine of “take no prisoners” is always in full-effect🤨. But the “unknowns” can best be described in the case of pre- Deep Blue computing power of the mid to late ‘80s, wherein the designated computer of the day would take (if playing White’s opening gambit) 6,000,000 million years to work through the permutations allowing for, presumably, e4... since e4 is “Best by test”... -Fischer 🤔😇).
-J
This might be the first intelligent chess-related film ever. Usually the games are finished with the word "mate", as if super strong players miss that in long games. (Dont mention Kramnik vs comp!)
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" comes to mind. Of course, that was based on a true story.
Pawn sacrifice is great too ;)
“Don’t move until you see it.” - Great film with standout performances from Fishburne & Kingsley.
I think I liked The Queen of Katwe too, but I can't recall if she said mate in her games :D
“I suppose , in the end , the whole of life becomes an act of Letting Go ….. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say Goodbye”
"RIP to the Oldman in the basement
And the woman who adopted beth"
I was so angry with beth when I found out that she didnt give mr scheibel 10 bucks she promised.
@@edgarpusko9939 that's what she regret the most, she didn't have the time for the man who introduced the chess into her life
Beth and Mr. Shaibel head a much deeper connection and became a big part of each other's lives, 10 dollars and a few pleasantries notwithstanding, they gave each other a 'raison d'être'. They changed each other's lives immeasurably and permanently, for the better. Beth only became fully aware of this towards the end of the series, whereas as Mr Shaibel knew it all along.
Life of Pi
Irfaan Khan from life of pi
Fun fact - The games in the series look real and accurate because all the actors are actually playing the games instead of acting.
Garry Kasparov helped design the final game
???
are you implying the actors came up with the continuation
@@coolmendotdot2 Nope, Kasparov helped the creators design the final game.
All the games shown in the show were actual games being played between the actors, that's why they are accurate games with no illegal moves or any mistakes
i dont get your point, how do u wanna "act" playing chess without actualy playing it?
Your explanation is a bit confusing as stated by the two gentlemen above, why would they be actually playing if all the moves were pre created before? If they're really playing, it would be a random game even if they're pro, if Kasparov help designed the actual game, it means the actors are acting the game moves that was created to make this episode.
This is interesting, acting and playing chess. I bet the actual filming would be fun to see. All that stuff where the director explains the scene, then ACTION -- CUT, and director says No, no, no -- move your pieces like you mean it.
Really beautiful. But one thing in your reconstruction. You went with Borgov accepting the Queen's Gambit, but in the series, the commentator mentioned that Borgov had declined it.
I think, they actually played the Albin CounterGambit with 2. ...e5 and Elisabeth replies with the crazy 3. e4 as far as I remember, which makes the game wild from the very beginning.
They did not play a QGA.
Series is 10 of 10. Right up there with the best of all time. Can't speak to the historical accuracy, but worth the watch.
The most important lesson can be learned from series is not about chess and all this moves it's about not forgetting where you have started and who supported you at first.
I actually cried for shaibel ...
Just finished it in 8 hours as you said . Literally cried the whole mini-series
Two of my favorite moments were when the late-arriving Harry said, I can get out of this. She replies, maybe, if you were on time, and Townes, "Harmon, you're humiliating my rook".
As someone who has played next to no chess in their lives but really enjoyed the show, this kind of breakdown of the game being played was very entertaining. Thank you!
Wait until you see the thousand other videos this channel has to offer. Just crack open a vein and let the chess flow.
I was hoping she was going to play all the guys in the park a round of simultaneous.
It would have been too humiliating for them...
Me too
@@davejohn255 humiliating? I don't see anything humiliating in getting yout ass kicked at chess by the freaking World Champion. If anything it's an honor
I would think it’s awesome to get to even make a move against the world champion. I remember voting in Gary Kasparov vs. the world.
In the actual show, the first few moves have been changed and are not the same as in this video, but it is irrelevant to the game and the conclusion so I did not include this. Hope you enjoy the game :)
Borgov never quite got the respect he deserved, but he definitely was a magnificent player in his day, especially early in his career, and he introduced many new ideas into chess.
I didn´t find ANYTHING about a player named Borgov...it´s fictional
@@gringobilbo Yes, of course... I was being silly...!
Lol
By the way, do you guys know if Harmon is still at the Lexington Substance Addiction Recovery Center now? Or is she out again?
@@robertsanders7060 bruh you can stop now, the joke is getting dry. But to answer your question I've heard she was out but then she went back in. I guess the withdrawal symptoms are strong
Brilliant video! I love how you stopped at various points and showed alternative outcomes, that knight & Queen Checkmate at 7:52 just wow!
Not to spoil anything but the series' ending feels like a nod to Fischer taking out the small chess set during the dinner after winning the world chess championship
You think? To me it was just a sign to point out her deep passion, respectfull approach to chess and also a last nod to the person who actually got her into chess. But your take is interesting!
Technically it's apparently a nod to Morphy with how she plays
@@claudiareina2689 I thought the guy at the end was the same actor who played Mr Shaibel? I may be wrong but I’m pretty sure it was
the ending is a nod to mr shaibel
The series ending is the book ending. The series follows Tevis novel page by page
The most ficctional part about the show is the lack of draws Kappa
and fast classical chess
It was in 1960. Draws were more rare at that time
@@spirou2012 not that rare
@@spirou2012 no they weren't. wtf
Lack of draws and the tournament system. There weren't so many opens in the sixties and prizes were definitely not that high before 1970.
As for the fast classical chess, they had to thread a fine line. On one hand, classical chess is slow in reality. However, it is impossibly to put a slow game into a movie - the whole episode would have been just one game. So they are actually filming moments when they calculated out the variation or are playing a forced variation and play fast, while showing how much time they spent on the clocks.
Who is here after binge watching all the epidodes for the whole night without sleeping?
Nice I just took the spoilers
I am :) 100% would do it again. My father and brother are watching it right now, it's such a great show.
Count me in.
Checking in called bs a lot but still enjoyed
Same
I think there is another meaning to the title "Queen's Gambit". Elizabeth was the Queen. As she progressed in her ability and moving up in competition, she focused on herself. She actively avoided people and only occasionally accepted any coaching. The Gambit was sacrificing her isolation to accept the help of a team of people who gamed out the moves for the last game. Yes, there was one they hadn't gamed. She had to focus on the chessboard in the ceiling, without the drugs, and see the way out of the trap and how to win. She showed a lot of emotion at the end. Gratitude and comradery with the group who helped her. They were her friends before she became theirs. And her last game in the park was full circle in a way. A game with an old man, an amateur, for fun. So her gambit won. She sacrificed her "queen", and became a healthier human in doing so.
Aside from that thought, I really enjoyed the sportsmanship of most of the Russian players when they lost. They gave her a good lesson there, that the game had more to it than just winning. You could appreciate a brilliant move, a brilliant game by your opponent. There is a quote I love (not from the series), "I never lose. I win, or I learn." It starts off sounding arrogant, but it is a really good attitude to losing. If you approach every loss as a learning opportunity that makes you better the next time, it isn't losing. It's a strength. I think they exhibited that quote as a counterpoint to her anger whenever she lost. Her anger made it truly a loss, not a lesson for learning.
Interesting thought.
Yeah I didn’t read that but good job
beautiful
Beautifully said
Every grandmaster has seconds. That’s how it works. The real talent is having her kind of ability and that’s not something you get from a book. What you get from a book is to expand on the innate talent you have. A grandmaster-level potential who doesn’t study won’t become a grandmaster, at the same time an ordinary player, no matter how hard they study, will ever reach grandmaster level. At the board you can’t read books to find moves, at the board it’s the grandmaster who wins, that’s what they’re a grandmaster for.
It’s also true that your opponent can be gracious in loss but that’s not always the case. Chess is not a game for people who can’t stand losing, because they will be doing a lot of that. A great deal of losing, it comes with the terrain.
Bobby fischer played e4 for most of his life which made unpredictable and hard to prepare against and it was in his match against spassy that he suprised everyone when he played The English with C4 and also played some poison pawn variation and Gambits which suprised everyone as fischer is a e4 player not a d4,c4,or Gambiting player
HIKARU WAS DOING PIPI IN HIS PAMPERS WHILE IVANCHUK WAS STARING AT THE CEILING
lmaooooooooo
Rofl
and I've started Starring at ceiling when I'm at bed.
Great but see that people don't get you in other way
and all I see are bugs moving around
Yeah I know 😁
I would do that when I'm visualizing painting. I have a tree outside and in the winter the light paints silhouettes on my ceiling suggesting how to draw intersecting branches.
yeah, just keep an eye that roach doesn't fall down exactly when you sigh.
Explains the entire ending, "I don't want to give away too much". xD haha great vid as usual, thank you for the time you put into presenting many classics for us.
the queen gambit is not solely about chess it is about survival,. being independent, the importance of talent and discipline and friendship. This film is highly recommended for those hopeless people.
I can see now, chess before engine time. It is an incredible game indeed. So much can happen. And the amazing mentality the old master must have. To have one game for several days. To go home to prepare. It just amazing