Fuck this politics shit - MUSICAL FUCKING THEATRE
FUCKING FORGET POLITICS WHY WAS I NOT PREVIOUSLY INFORMED THAT CHESS HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO RUSSIAN AND OPENED IN MOSCOW?? https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-the-musical-opens-in-moscow has some info. Got it via this MeFi post which includes links to some of the performances/performers.
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The Queen's Gambit, on Netflix, is totally worth watching. Only seven episodes, so not a huge commitment.
It's a little bit Hallmark, except with swearing and sex and drugs and suicide.
The NYT says the writers got a *LOT* of things right about the chess world that most examples of chess in fictional media get wrong.
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