Tag: chess
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The Symbol of Chess
Three days in a row last week, I scrolled on my little smartphone to see a different white girl posting a picture to Instagram of a chess board in various states of setup and play. I looked on, livid, as these people proved their sophistication and love of The Queen’s Gambit – not through a…
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Chess and Max
“An interesting person is a person with interests.” I watched the first episode of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit this evening. My senior year of high school, I wasn’t very involved at my school. I did, however, play for Mundelein High’s first ever Chess Team. I was board #2. That semester, there was a foreign exchange…