When you get particularly good at chess, so good that you're able to compete at the level of the various emotionally stunted grandmasters in Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, the chess moves you make can start to feel second-nature, inherent, fundamental, even rote. The moment one player moves their white pawn (white always goes first), the next player simply files through their Rolodex of follow-up moves at a split-second pace, causing a similar reaction, and on and on until someone's knocking over their king in resignation. The trick to win, then, is to utilize …
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