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Vachier-Lagrave clinches second place
The longest chess tournament in history has come to an end, with three out of four games finishing decisively. Much like in the 2013 edition, when Vishy Anand secured tournament victory with a round to spare, we already knew who had won this year’s Candidates a day before the end of the event, as Ian Nepomniachtchi secured the right to face Magnus Carlsen in the next World Championship match on Monday.
Both Nepomniachtchi and Anish Giri, who became the main contender for first place in the second half of the event, lost their last-round games. The two elite players confessed that they felt unmotivated after Monday’s round either consciously or unconsciously. While Nepo was defeated by Ding Liren, Giri lost his game against Kirill Alekseenko.
Updated December 14, 2020 10:16 p.m. EST
By Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times
Actress Beth Behrs has a new obsession chess and the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” is to blame. Her obsession even got her into trouble on the set of the CBS show “The Neighborhood,” where she plays Gemma Johnson.
“They yelled at me at work yesterday because I was hiding my phone under my script,” she said. “I should have been acting and I was playing on Chess.com.”
Behrs is hardly alone in her new passion. “The Queen’s Gambit,” about a troubled chess prodigy named Beth Harmon who is navigating the male-dominated tournament world, is a hit on Netflix. (62 million households watched at least some of the show, according to the streaming service.) That has ignited interest in the game, including among women and girls.
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How The Queen s Gambit is inspiring women to take up chess
11 Dec, 2020 04:00 AM
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The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess since watching The Queen s Gambit on Netflix. Photo / Jessica Lehrman, The New York Times
The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess since watching The Queen s Gambit on Netflix. Photo / Jessica Lehrman, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Dylan Loeb McClain
Fans of the Netflix series, including teenagers and the actress Beth Behrs, are flocking to the game because women can be rock stars in chess. Actress Beth Behrs has a new obsession chess