| P-K4, N-KB3 being the prevalent notation | Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA |
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| The score was amazing and really set the atmosphere and the tone of the show | The finale was so well done that it almost felt like an end to a show with several seasons rather than a limited series |
The character developments for even the minor characters were well-thought-out and I immediately formed an emotional connection with most of them.
10| Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA | The Queen's Gambit was a random find for me |
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| By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U | I started watching it without any expectations but the first episode was just enough to keep me interested |
Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control.
24| Nine year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable | |
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| a1-h8 , which appears frequently throughout the series, was rarely used by English-speaking players in the 1960s, descriptive notation e | The show also had very good messages sprinkled in between, they were subtle and didn't make me feel like an agenda was being showed down my throat |
However, for strong English-speaking players to keep up with developments, familiarity with algebraic notation, the predominant form in European and Soviet chess literature, would have been essential.