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Chess Books in The Queen's Gambit

Books in Queen’s Gambit

This list includes all the real (and fake) books features in the Netflix series “The Queens Gambit”. The first book shown in the show is: Modern Chess Openings by Richard Griffith and Walter Korn The book is borrowed to Beth Harmon…

You don't need a chess coach

You Don’t Need a Chess coach

So you’re stuck at 500 ELO, wondering if you should pay some overpriced coach $50/hour to roast your blunders with smug metaphors like “you play like a drunk octopus in a minefield.” Hold up. Before you Venmo your life savings…

Chess Is War - Destroy the enemy

CHESS IS WAR

“To be a world champion you have to be something of a barbarian. You must have a well-developed killer instinct.” — Boris Spassky Chess isn’t just a board game. It’s the battlefield of the mind. While other so-called “strategy games” flash…