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Andy K (10823 KP) created a video about Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) in Movies
Dec 5, 2017 (Updated Dec 5, 2017)
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MusicCritics (472 KP) created a video about track Blue Cheese by 2 Chainz in Pretty Girls Like Trap Music by 2 Chainz in Music
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Braden Giles (1 KP) rated Santorini in Tabletop Games
Mar 31, 2019
BookInspector (124 KP) rated The Queen's Gambit in TV
Jan 26, 2021
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Beetle Rider (341 KP) rated Chess in Tabletop Games
Mar 21, 2018
Highly strategic but also boring
If you really care great. But it’s hard to get into it. The theme is terrible. But some chess sets are beautiful.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Queen's Gambit in TV
Jan 20, 2021
Lavish drama based on Walter Tevis' novel about a female chess prodigy. What sounds like fairly unpromising material - a young orphan discovers an immense talent for chess and rises to take on the world champion in Moscow, confronting her personal demons along the way - is elevated to something really special by the simple method of having a fantastic script, direction, acting and production values.
Looks fantastic, and Anya Taylor-Joy deserves all the accolades coming her way, but the show's real achievement for me is that it manages to capture the excitement and fascination of chess without becoming bogged down in details like the difference between the Orangutan and the Grob openings. The chess sequences are genuinely thrilling: you almost get a sense of what it feels like to have that kind of effortless talent in something. Brilliant TV aimed at people with brains.
Looks fantastic, and Anya Taylor-Joy deserves all the accolades coming her way, but the show's real achievement for me is that it manages to capture the excitement and fascination of chess without becoming bogged down in details like the difference between the Orangutan and the Grob openings. The chess sequences are genuinely thrilling: you almost get a sense of what it feels like to have that kind of effortless talent in something. Brilliant TV aimed at people with brains.