‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Turned My Frat Into a Chess Madhouse

The show that made chess cool again.

Connor "Bearcat" Martin
Cinemania
Published in
3 min readDec 17, 2020

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The Queen’s Gambit promo: Netflix

It all started at a bar. “Connor, we need to start playing chess,” my roommate randomly mentioned to me on that September afternoon. He explained he wanted something new to do since we were tired of consistently playing cards during quarantine. A few moments later, we promptly hopped on Amazon and ordered…

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Connor "Bearcat" Martin
Cinemania

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