Full disclosure: I did not love The Queen's Gambit, but I completely see the appeal. The Netflix miniseries stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a hard-working, obsessive, haunted-by-her-demons chess prodigy who wipes the floor with all kinds of older male chess grandmasters while trying her best to ignore her complicated, burgeoning humanity in order to keep crushing the pawns in her path. If you were compelled by The Queen's Gambit from beginning to end, and are now going through withdrawal, in need of something to scratch a similar itch, I've got you. Now that …
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