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The Queen's Gambit - King Bob - 11-11-2020
New Netflix 7 episode series about an orphan girl who becomes a chess prodigy. Based on a novel by Walter Tevis (author of The Man Who Fell to Earth).
Actually made the chess games somewhat exciting. Some nice camera work and good costume and set design. I enjoyed it even though I don't play chess. No swordfights, naturally. The female lead, that is her as an adult, is rather striking. Perhaps not Doom recommended, depending on your mood and taste.
The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-09-2020
3 eps in. It's not the 'be all end all' that all the buzz says, but it is watchable, largely due to Anya Taylor-Joy who I really liked in The Miniaturist ( http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=4626 ) and the overblown retro sets - so sixties. Anya has anime eyes but she's perfect for the role. It all really hinges around her charisma.
There's menstrual blood. Again. Stacy thinks it's a trend - the new frontier edge for cinema to push.
HP1 (so far) Dudley. Apparently you can become a chess master by eating tranquilizers and staring at the ceiling. I coulda done that.
We'll probably finish it. It's entertaining enough. I've ventured some guesses on where things are going and I want to see if I'm right. 4 eps to go.
No sword fights. Totally neutral in terms of DOOM recommendation.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - thatguy - 12-10-2020
Hey: http://brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomForum/showthread.php?tid=5829
--tg
RE: The Queen's Gambit - Greg - 12-10-2020
Like Magic.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-10-2020
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RE: The Queen's Gambit - Greg - 12-10-2020
Ha! I see what you did.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - King Bob - 12-10-2020
Jamm did that with big chessmen in one episode.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - thatguy - 12-10-2020
—tg
RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-13-2020
Woah. That boofed blonde hair in that vid above that tg just posted. Dang Anya, wth? DON'T WATCH THAT VID IF YOU INTEND TO WATCH THIS SHOW. It's packed with spoilers.
We finished it tonight. It was entertaining, even uplifting. There were some bits that struck me as absurd but the style and look of the series was captivating enough for me to overlook all that. The addiction story arc didn't work for me - it was too cartoonish. And Anya was very charismatic. Those eyes. Those huge anime peepers. That really worked for the chess scenes.
As some of you might remember, my PhD thesis was going to be on chess and fencing. tg shot my photos for the experiment. There's a lot of research on how chess masters think and I was proposing to map that on fencing masters, all because of a dumb saying that 'fencing is the physical chess.' Now I don't play chess. I disdain games in general but chess is particularly annoying. However, I do admire the symbolism of it. So it worked for me on a symbolic level but the depiction of how chessmasters think did not.
We realized we've had a run of orphan stories - this, Great Expectations, The BFG. Well, it's better than the menstrual blood run we had before although this miniseries was part of that.
No sword fights. Mildly DOOM recommended.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - King Bob - 12-14-2020
Are you saying there are no games you like? I thought you liked poker. Surely there must be at least one.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-14-2020
Nah I gave up gambling years ago after a decades long losing streak (that’s still going).
I’m just not into playing games. Stacy likes games. I just don’t find them that entertaining anymore.
We played Risk and Scrabble when we were at Mammoth last month, but we were snowed in and it was Tara & Stacy’s call. I played grudgingly.
Do the rest of you play games?
RE: The Queen's Gambit - King Bob - 12-14-2020
I love Uno, but you need four people. Same for Parcheesi and Sorry, and I enjoy them. Mille Bornes is a good one too, and you can play with two. But if anyone is fixated on winning, it ruins everything. (That was always my wife's cousin's husband when we played games at Christmas; he's also a mysogynist, so losing to a woman was even worse. We stopped playing games when he was around.) My in-laws like Bananagrams, but they won't play with me any more because I usually win, I think due to a bigger vocabulary. They love Mexican Train dominoes, which I'm not wild about; I think regular dominoes is better.
My brother and I played games a lot when we were kids. Besides the ones already mentioned, I particularly liked Yatzee, Stratego, and Life. (FYI, they redesigned Life a few years ago and ruined it, so I got an old one on eBay. It's a great vacation game.)
I wanted to learn chess, but my brother was really good at it, and my dad had no patience to play with me, so I never really did. But I think maybe chess requires the initiation of losing many, many games before you win, and I would never have stuck with that. I think I prefer board games with less skill and more luck; otherwise you need to seek out players at your level to have fun.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - cranefly - 12-14-2020
I don't like board games as a general rule, but have indulged in chess now and then.
I do go to chess.com every day, but not to play chess. Rather, I play the one free game of Puzzle Rush. You have 5 minutes to solve as many chess puzzles as possible, and the puzzles get increasingly more difficult.
There's an active leader board that shows the current highest score, and it gets reset each hour. There have been times when I've been at the top, but only briefly, as I happened to finish my session just after the top of the hour. By the end of the hour, I'm nowhere in sight.
My best score is 17, but I average more like 12. The hourly winner is always in the mid-40s to mid-50s. I'm pretty certain these are grandmasters (or maybe I just want to believe this).
As for the game of chess, proficiency is just too dependent on memorizing chess openings, so I've lost interest in that.
Queen's Gambit has been tempting me, by the way. But so far I've resisted.
RE: The Queen's Gambit - thatguy - 12-14-2020
(12-13-2020, 10:38 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: As some of you might remember, my PhD thesis was going to be on chess and fencing. tg shot my photos for the experiment.
There's some missing brain cells...I must have done a little too much pruning. Still have the pix? I'm curious to see what past-tg's skillz were like at that time.
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We realized we've had a run of orphan stories - this, Great Expectations, The BFG.
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And Harry Potter...it all comes back to Harry Potter...(Though I always thought HP was ripped off, if not heavily influenced by Roald Dahl)
--tg
PS: I was in the chess club in Junior High. For no good reason other then to be in some kind of club. I was not a great player. They did some interesting variations. One was a game called "Quadra-chess" that had a modified board and allowed 4 players to play together from opposing sides.
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RE: The Queen's Gambit - Drunk Monk - 12-14-2020
My family didn't play games very much. My folks played bridge to be social but I never learned. I learned cribbage, which is similar I'm told but we'd only play it when car camping. Stacy is into cribbage and soundly trounced me and Tara for years.
My dad gambled, playing craps and blackjack. He took me to Reno for a father/son tutelage trip. It's one of my fondest memories with him. We killed it in craps the first day - won over $500 bucks. But we put it all back before we left.
I think D&D spoiled me. I remember in High School, I established a D&D club and we met in a room right after the chess club. The teacher who was the advisor for that club used to try to get me to come over. He thought wargaming and D&D were just derivations of chess with 'landmines' and that randomness detracted from the sheer nakedness of playing with someone person to person. He loved that chess was contained and just down to the players. He's not wrong but I never switched.
(12-14-2020, 01:15 PM)thatguy Wrote:(12-13-2020, 10:38 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: As some of you might remember, my PhD thesis was going to be on chess and fencing. tg shot my photos for the experiment.
There's some missing brain cells...I must have done a little too much pruning. Still have the pix? I'm curious to see what past-tg's skillz were like at that time.
I may. I wonder. They were B&W and pretty stilted because I needed something very specific for my experiment. They were shots of artist mannequins with swords in various positions.
You had some extra film so you shot one of my favorite photos of me. I was holding a lava lamp, in my leather jacket, standing in front of your bulletin board collage. I know I still have that. Maybe I'll post it to sitonmyfacebook. Maybe I already did.
This shoot was in 1983.
(12-14-2020, 01:15 PM)thatguy Wrote: [quote pid='43688' dateline='1607924302']
We realized we've had a run of orphan stories - this, Great Expectations, The BFG.
And Harry Potter...it all comes back to Harry Potter...(Though I always thought HP was ripped off, if not heavily influenced by Roald Dahl)
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HP poached from so many things. Definitely Dahl, as well as Marvel, LotR, and a lot of others. But something worked in the gestalt of it all obvs. The metaphor for Rowling's own struggles, along with her attention to miniscule details and her sense of the teen inner world helped.
I see your quadrachess and raise you:
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