Beth Harmon - the Mexico games uncovered || The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)

[@PowerPlayChess]

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[@marsupiallion94]

They should hire you for season 2 Danny!

[@crazymulgogi]

Brilliant catch, the Polgar game. It's an even more exciting game.

[@carlosladen]

Mr. King, this video is really good. I watch all your videos, tha last one was good, but this one is overwhelming, because this time you commented on the "Beth person" and not just on "Beth chess". I am very impressed by your chess search and how you can find similarities between games. I'm sure you had to spend a lot of time and effort to get it. Congratulations.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Thank you! I did indeed spend some time researching!

[@o.reusch7428]

I am absolutely impressed that You found the Polgar game similar to the Jakowenko game. Wow! Incredible good work!!

[@tennisblood]

I personally met Leonid Stein in the 1971, a very nice and polite man and made a draw against him in a simul given to the best 8 juniors in Kiev, Ukraine... He was 3 times USSR champ and played for the USSR in the chess Olympiad. I was so sad when he died so young....

[@PowerPlayChess]

Congratulations! Great to hear that he was pleasant in person. A tragedy that he died so young.

[@tennisblood]

@@PowerPlayChess His death at the very young age, had to do something with my decision to never consider a career as a professional chess player, despite great passion for the game and successes in the juniors...

[@PowerPlayChess]

@@tennisblood I'm sorry to hear that, but I quite understand.

[@MrRobbyvent]

Brilliant trivia and point of view about the show . Very unique among the coverages from other chess youtubers

[@GuillaumeCartier]

The Judit Polgar game. Wow what a find!!

[@Guitare_picking]

Wow I'm really impressed by the similarities of the Polgar game. Nice Catch. I Love your Work Daniel !

[@frankieshankly5368]

What a great series it was, could not stop watching until it ended. Very interesting follow up Daniel :)

[@kojiattwood]

Thank you so much for covering these games; nice to see some of my favourite, but more obscure players, like Nezhmetinov and Stein get their due.

[@gaberomo8086]

Great Stuff--AS ALWAYS supported by research and history :)

[@PowerPlayChess]

Thanks Gabe!

[@ElColombre27360]

2:08 I suspect they got inspired by a young Svidler for this character!

[@Breeelax]

Amazing endgame by Polgar! Thanks Mr. King!

[@Immortalassassin1]

Thanks for these videos Mr Daniel. I loved the Queenl's gambit series. Now I"m hoping Netflix turns their eyes toward a possible Magnus spinoff!

[@AjedrezSergi]

Amazing as always! A real pleasure to watch your videos and continue learning.

[@DG-ss2zd]

Great video!

[@davidfranklin5426]

Small correction - the mother is played by Marielle Heller, not Geller. She’s actually mainly a film director, not an actor. She directed the wonderful Mr. Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

[@PowerPlayChess]

Thank you. I meant to say 'Heller' but the chess player 'Geller' obviously snuck into my head!

[@davidfranklin5426]

@@PowerPlayChess GM Ferdinand Hellers will not be happy with you!

[@igorlutz2192]

Mr. King! I´m a huge fan and love your videos. If I may, can I point a small correction? 5:54 it´s not how the game ends because in the final position, when Girev resing, there are still rooks on the board. And congratulations for the excellent work researching all this beautiful games out of female chess players!

[@easychess]

@powerplaychess : this opposite color ending reminds me of a game kasparov played against karpov 1990 wcc match

[@joeb4142]

How the heck did you find that Edouard - Polgar game?!? Brilliant! 👏🏻

[@PowerPlayChess]

Diligent research! Thank you for appreciating :)

[@torrawel]

Let me say the thing then that nobody dares to say: it's impossible that kasparov (of all people) didn't know the Polgar game. The similarities are too obvious...

[@krazychessplaya]

@14:42 can black just take on b2 with the queen?

[@thomaskember4628]

Did Kasparov find the move h5 himself or did he use a chess engine? In the interview he said he wanted the games he chose to fit the description in the book. I would have thought this was one area where dramatic license would be allowed. I intend to read the book sometime to find out how close the other parts of the drama followed what is in the book.

[@RoyGazoff]

Should've happened. Movies nowadays simply starve for decent coverage and all possible lines unveild, deep analysis in connection with both side characters' characteristic. And they don't even need two people - they can simply pay for a narrator to drop a word while pausing before a game show starts.

[@benhaskin1159]

Do you think Kasparov omitted Polgar games because he can't bear to be generous to someone who's beaten him? I bet there aren't any Teimour Radjabov games in the show.

[@lordwetinari]

No Radjabov games, but there are games in the show by people who have beaten Kasparov. The final game versus Borgov in Moscow is based on a game by Ivanchuk who has beaten Kasparov multiple times. The game Luchenko-Harmon is based on Petrosian-Akopian, both of whom have beaten Kasparov (Akopian did it only once in a rapid game).

[@abhijeetgore310]

Thorough study

[@The_Angry_BeEconomist]

I agree with GrandMaster King, Kasparov missed a trick and should have used Polgar's games

[@carlosladen]

Maybe Kasparov did not forgive yet Polgar for her win against him (kidding).

[@abablalec]

They probably wanted games from that era and polgar's games are pretty new compared to that. But still they are good candidates, good catch!

[@PowerPlayChess]

They took games from many different eras.