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- The Queens Gambit is finally explained! If you were watching The Queens Gambit Netflix and wanted the ending explained - then you come to the right place! Here we talk about all the hidden meanings behind the Netflix series about chess. Why Beth Harmon played chess with random men in Russia? What is hidden behind her chess moves with Borgov (Beth vs Borgov)? How do colors and cinematography talk to the viewers? How Any Taylor Joy came up with her role and what did she hid inside Beth? This and many more are explained in our video! The Queens Gambit trailer left some cool easter eggs too! Watch our Netflix The Queen's Gambit Netflix review where we discuss all the secrets behind creating the show, what the showrunners backed in the characters, and storyline!
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A Pawn usually takes seven squares (episodes) to become a queen. The death of Sheibel in the last and seventh episode was the moment when the Pawn was exchanged for the Queen. As per definition: a Pawn is a person used by others for their own purposes. The death of Sheibel was this psychic transformation to relieve Harmon from drug addiction, put the past behind her and become a Queen. When Harmon dresses like a white queen in Russia, she no longer needs drugs to see the chess pieces moving on the ceiling when she plays Borgov. On her way to the airport, it is reaffirmed that she is no longer a Pawn and will not become one again for the American government, she exits the car and mingles with her subjects.
yes yes yes
@Fivi Clean up on isle 7. Wow nice summation @Robert Weaver. 🙏
Nice.
Brilliant!
good one!
You didn't talk about her clothing as it relates to chess. In the orphanage, she was dressed like a little pawn. At the end, like the white queen. So her transformation was echoed in her clothing. And in between, everything she wore reflected a chess board in some way - checkered or geometric.
Also the 7 moves it takes for a pawn to become a Queen is reflected in the number of episodes
I don't think Beth intentionally manipulated Benny and the others outright to improve her position. She's just looking for a father figure she never had, until she realized Mr. Sheibel had been her father figure all along in the orphanage when she returned for his funeral.
The chess board on the ceiling was represented differently each time because of her development as a player, as she became more experienced and sophisticated in play the chess set changed as well.
I don't agree with the part where u say that she "easly manipulates man". She never intended to manipulate anyone and both Harry and Benny came forward first to help her. Besides this the short analysis was great!
Manipulating people is different to intending to. And you can definitely manipulate people who come forward to help you.
@@snoozyq9576 I mean in wich part of the show do you see Beth manipulate anyone? Sincerly I never perceived her doing it not even without her knowing..
Yeah didn't see it that way... she was an addict.. and looking for attention.. some of her decisions are bad because she was always on drugs and depress she thought she was alone.. and none of those men could fill the space in her.. it was mr. Shiebel all along.. cause she is looking for a father figure she never had. Benny and Harry are important to her that's why she almost cried when Benny called her before her final game... just that she wasn't have closure with Townes and her traumatic experience that she couldn't offer love to anyone.
Its not her intent no, but she ís a merciless heartbreaker though!
She's in love with the game!
Harry Beltic really caredfor her, but he wasnt enough. Benny Watts might have been enough but he was to egocentric.
She really liked Townes, yet he proved to be gay, which was a bit of a shock to her!
She's yet to meet the man of her life.
Still that doesnt mean certain men will not fall for her stunning beauty though.
@@thegreenreaper6660 I still have hope for BethxBenny though ... Even if they gave us just a few scenes their chemistry was no jowke. In my imagination Beth comes back in the US and her and Benny end uo together xD
Many many many grandmasters stare at the ceiling for imaginary chess board.
None more than ivanchuk
@@alejandroojeda1572 878788880
GMS have stockfish on their roof
And at the end she wears ... white like the white Queen she has become (enlighted I mean, inside as outside)
True she always wear dark clothers or patterned that's the first time she wears white with that hat she really looks like a queen... great job to the stylist
At no time did I, or anyone else watching with me, think Harmon was EVER considering the idea of staying in Moscow, much less defecting to the USSR. (If anything, we had thought the Russian champion might try to defect, possibly through Beth.)
As for the ending, Beth had noted the older park players when she first arrived in Moscow and had thought of Mr. Shaibel and how such old men only played for the love of the game and to pass the time.
She knew she'd be going back past the park on her way back to the airport and demanded the stop to play a "last game" with another Mr. Shaibel, something she was unable to do with THE Mr. Shaibel before his death, not to bask in her chess victory and fame, but to curl up in her winning a new sense "normalcy" that had eluded her so many years.
And THAT'S why, I think, so many people have cried at that scene.
You thought the final scene was surprising? I thought it was perfect! So often stories, whether books or movies, have endings that leave you unfulfilled. Queen's Gambit fell easily into that 12% that have excellent endings. The best mini-series I have ever seen, how could it have anything less than a perfect ending.
Queen is the most powerful piece among all on the chessboard. So is Beth Harmon, she makes all man king~champion submit to her conquests.
I cannot believe how much I love the miniseries.The Queen's Gambit is a great show and like a lot of people thought it was based on a true story. Something about Beth that just seems so real; her addictions, discovering herself, overcoming the pills and booze to beat Borgov
In reality no women have ever been able to beat the best male chess players. The best 100 chess players in the world include only 1 woman and she is near the bottom.
IT was great to see quality programing on Netflix I truely loved this series!
Why didn't Beth pay Mr. Shaibel the $10 she promised him??? WHY!?!!!
too happy and excited to remember. lol
Addicts forget those who help.
@@josephmora5230 I hope Beth is in recovery. And I hope to receive an apology letter because I am very distraught by her actions or lack thereof. ... Oh, Beth. :(
She overlooked that and it was obvious that she was remorseful. That makes it all the more poignant in the end when she decides to walk to a park to play chess with normal folks that remind her of Mr Shaibel. The ending was perfect.
@@josephmora5230 then perhaps they weren’t really helped
I just think it would have been cool for her to envision that the old man at the end was mr scheibol, just for a second see him in the old man right before the scene ends.
Acctualy Beth is Bobby Fischer, so many thing to prove that, she was taking Russian classes, she acctualy play fischer-sozin attack when she face the sicilian defense, she is playing Russian to became the WC, and despite her normal e4 op she plays queens gambit and gets huge aplausse after she won (who know fischer vs spasky game 6 knows what im talking about) , and not to mention that she is obsessed with chess... (if i missed something and i think i did, comment me)
correct iam sure the auther had him in mind writing this story
Why does he keep calling her adopted parents “step parents”
Decorated in dominoes? They are DICE! Who goes to Vegas to play dominoes???
I agree. But dice or dominoes, I don't get the significance? What was he trying to imply by either being a decoration?
That's the next big series there, Double blank, set in the bowling clubs of Scotland
I think that the stare at the ceiling vs. Borgov is a reference to "Searching for Bobby Fischer". In that movie, Josh Waitzkin, the protagonist, flashes back during the championship match to an earlier moment in the film when his coach swept all of the pieces off of the board to force him to visualize a move without touching the pieces. He stares off at nothing as the audience is shown that scene again. I feel that Beth is doing the same thing here, recalling all of the hours she spent staring at the ceiling, visualizing games.
Beth playing chess on the ceiling is straight out of The Queen's Gambit book by Tevis the show's based on. Accurate!
Blocking Scholars Mate is a right of passage for all chess players. It teaches you how to think.
The Chess game on the ceiling is a reference to the "Schachnovelle" by Stefan Zweig. It's a great story to read. Recommendation.
It's straight out of The Queen's Gambit book by Tevis.
@@debla7532 Looks like Walter Tevis made a reference to Stefan Zweig. The Schachnovelle was written in early 1940s.
6:15 Queens Gambit is actually a less aggressive and more closed and positional opening where the pawn is not really sacrificed if black takes because it cannot be defended in almost all cases
Well it depends if Black accepts or declines the gambit
Interesting that there was never a scene where Beth was driving a car. She was always a passenger. She didn't even own a car. Was she afraid of driving?
Benny was based on Walter Browne, six time US champion, who was an avid speed chess hustler and gambler. Just look at a picture of young Browne to see a distinct resemblence between him and Benny. The only non-Browne thing Benny did was to say "no sex" to Beth. Walter was a playboy grandmaster, pretty much the opposite of Bobby Fischer.
In my opinion, the whole inspiration of the novel and miniseries is: What if Bobby Fischer had been a woman? Fischer had a very similar mother to the step-mother character. Also, Fischer was one of the famous players of the time NOT mentioned.
The Queens Gambit is a great advert for Chess especially for girls and non Chess players. The story line is based on the American, Bobby Fischer who famously only played 1 e4 before winning Game 6 in the 1972 World Championship with The Queens Gambit against the Champion, Boris Spassky from Russia in which he sportingly congratulated Bobby on a great game and was considered the best game of the Championships. Bobby Fischer was a Chess prodigy and at 14 years old won the United States Championships.
The one trait that is incorrect is substance abuse as I have never come across that from any Chess player of any ability being that it would effect their game negatively. I thought your performance was excellent in which the chess games were from those played by past Masters. Adjourning a game did occur in the 1972 World Championship for which they are no longer used for many years since the development of chess engines and players playing shorter games to a finish.
Yes Beth was Fisher for sure, Fisher did a photo op just like Beth's underwater pool scene
Well I'm not sure there wasn't any substance abuse at the top of the chess scene. Some would say it's not as bad as it used to be but I can promise you substance abuse does not discriminate. It doesn't care if your rich, poor, smart or funny. Tal was a known drinker and smoker and not only was he a top player, he was world champion. The use of Aterol and other stimulants are also very popular. Classical chess takes an incredible amount of focus and concentration. Trust me when I say that many chess players with great ability are addicted to something.
Those "super fast" moves are not played normally with long time controls, only in quick chess, or with longer time controls, during openings and possible time shortage.
i loved this video and of course the quenns gambit too, thx for the explanations.
He wasn't her step-father, he was her father. He had adopted her.
PSA the queens gambit is not an aggressive opening, especially if black declines which they normally do.
Ye and it s the black side to decide to go into a sharp QGA. I play d4 in every white game and that cause i am not an aggressive player lol.
60% people use gueen's gambit as an opening.
@@arinaina4262 don't a majority use some form of e4?
@@AvantTom I thing they mean after 1.d4 you get a qg 60% of the times.
@@brianel-khoury885 ooooh yeahhh, thats probably true, london gained alot of popularity though
I did notice that beautiful play on the chess board where Beth sacrificed her original queen....in order to prevail with a new one. Awesome.
This video isn’t really all that good. There’s a little bit of misinformation in the vid that people in the comments collectively debunked. That and the video states more than a couple obvious moments that weren’t hidden at all. The title was clickbait, but I’m still happy I got to this video. The people in the comments were more informational that the person/people who researched and wrote this video.
The ending cries out for a sequel. Winning the Moscow Invitiational is great, but she isn't the world champion yet. She sets it up with her came with the kid in Mexico who plans to become world champion in 3 years and asks him what he will do with the rest of his life. Morphy went mad, Fischer became a paranoid recluse... more challenges. But Capablanca and Alekhine stayed sane and defended their titles. Jolene and Beth are fellow rebels, and the drama of the 1960s is still unfolding; Woodstock, the Summer of Love still in the future. What if she hitched up with Benny and he gets drafted? She hasn't really faced the obstacles that women have to deal with yet, like having a kid ... lots more left to explore.
Beth using her friends as pawns is a ridiculously shallow and cynical interpretation.. it's not really up to interpretation since it's quite explicitly stated that the Russians were better because they supported each other as a team while Beth had always pushed everyone that cared about her away due to arrogance, addictions, immaturity or whatever.
In her final game, when she had no longer ties to any of them, she was lost and about to lose and it was the reunion with them what helped her turn around the game. She was genuinely happy to hear Harry's voice and the emotional relief of making peace with them probably helped her more than their technical advice.
Great analysis. You nailed it!
Maybe so, but using a derogatory word for sex such as "nailed" to describes a mans work makes you sounds like a misogynist
i would say Beth is Bobby Fischer not Benny!!!
Good explanations
No one thought about the fact that she represents in a part Fisher himself? Leaving the scene after winning but becoming sick of the politics of the USA and choose something simple as the love of chess which happens to be in the USSR? Or are Americans too scary for those ideas?
It is my opinion that Beth is a composite of Judith Polgar and Bobby Fischer. This is why Fischer is never mentioned in the series. He and Beth cannot exist in the same time.
I couldn't stop smiling at the end of the last episode.
Those chess pieces that are arranged differently on the ceiling mean that she calculates moves. That's what all chess players do.
And damn Bobby Fischer was World Chess Champion, which is uncomparable to Benny. Simply put, Fischer at 29 was the best player in the world.
The Queen's Gambit is not an aggresive opening. And "starting with the Queen's Pawn means that she's ready to fight tougher than she ever did" is nonsense. There's nothing wrong with e4 or d4.
EXACTLY people who know nothing about chess are looking for beautiful metaphors in the wrong places...
@@absidyabsidy2727 YEP
Beth Harmon is more likely to be Bobby Fischer than Benny. Young prodigy, was trying to beat the USSR all alone, mental issues, literally Bobby fischer with a better ending. BETH IS BASED ON FISCHER NOT BENNY. That was so innacurate that I stopped watching the video.
@@absidyabsidy2727 Remember that scene in the show when the interviewer personificated chess pieces lmao
Last game is so beautiful
Neo: do you take the blue pill or red pill?
78 people: I'll take the green pill
There's a secreto reason for seven being the number of episodes. She starts the show as a White pawn and ends It as a White Queen. And that recquires to go through 7 squares (though 6 would have also done the trick)
loved the ending what a great series
Actually E4 is sharper and faster with more fighting tactics and D4 is quieter slower with more positional play more of a strategic grind though both openings can be transposed quickly into something entirely different, chess is mental martial arts
This was the only review that mentioned the symbolism of the new Queen. Nicely done!
There are several out there much better, this was armchair-lite quality, you'll see just poke around
@@debla7532 I'm finding the good in every one of them and commenting on that. Care to join me?
Orange Teal 2-tone is a very common cinematography look. Only on this show it was displayed in absolute full glory, down to every little detail in each scene. From Beth's outfits to extras wearing just the right color combos, to props, interiors and decoration in general. Take a look at the early Wheatley house living room scenes and especially the entire 'Mexico' episode. - all Orange - Teal That my friends is totally wicked!
The commentator Totally misses the concept that Success is created by VISUALIZATION!
In my interpretation, the “Queen”s Gambit” is a story of PTSD and the borderline personality. Beth’s journey is one of abreaction, to relive her traumatic separation from her mother. As borderline, she sees life split, in black and white. All of her drinking and drugs are acting out behaviors to hide intense pain. She takes her anger at the board. Either she attacks and murders her hated internal introject, the demon inside, who makes her a perfectionist. Or she attacks others, as she does people in her life are merely objects, things. I feel she is demonic, harmful; and the reason she never gives Shaibel his $10 is because she has always felt narcissistically entitled. I loved this movie
What is the music u used in this editing thannks
GM Ivanchuk is not the only GM who looks up when it is his turn to move. Also, no mention of Pandolfini? Finally, it is a relatively modern setting as the King chess piece used to always have a cross on top instead of (optionally) a finial..
I've never thought of the Queens Gambit as aggressive. It's easily declined by black and as a gambit, it usually loses momentum because the pawn can almost always be recaptured if played correctly. I'd rather play the London system as a D5 opening
Superficial analysis mostly. Some insight but, too often, not.
WALTER TEVIS, the writer of The Queen's Gambit died at 56 years old for lung cancer,because of he smoked.
I am a chess geek and need to point out that the Queen's Gambit is not necessarily an aggressive opening and is not (usually) a real gambit since white can regain the pawn. 1.e4 is generally regarded as a more aggressive opening. But, there is a world of possibilities after 1.d4, d5 2. c4 and some lines are quite aggressive for white.
Very true. Yet there are / were some masters of attack whom usually did began with 1. D4 and Queen gambit if so.
Hikaru Nakamura also stares upwards when visualising deep variations. He does this live every day play blitz games online.
He recently joked that he was going to sue because they stole his signature move.
The narrator needs to figure out the difference between dominoes and dice.
I think this show was a Masterpiece......
We know what happens to her. She starts off the Kings gambit series. ;)
Can someone explain why in episode 7 when she goes back to the orphanage mrs Deardorff said “ you should be in chapel young lady” I feel it has a deeper meaning
She skipped chapel to go to the basement like she usually does
Or maybe she wanted beth to go to the basement because she knew she didn't come back in all those times, but its more likely she just lost it and it was just symbolic in a story sense that she's definitley not going to chapel and go to the basement for chess(finding shaibel) instead
Just an illustration of Mrs. Deardorff's memory loss disability, and perhaps senility setting in. But she had no idea who Beth was when she made that statement.
But at the Age of 14 Bobby Fisher lost a mini match 4-0 to Max Euwe(he was already retired WC).
wasn't Beth after Fisher?
Yep, that was so innacurate that I stopped watching the Video.
She was playing at the same time in history that Fischer was. The show runners intentionally left out Fischer, because his presence would be too much of a distraction. Benny was almost the alternate reality version of Fischer.
@@seanhartel5362 Nope, not at all. It's a fictional world the left out every single real name of chess and Beth is based on Fischer. The only American to ever win the World championship in an era dominated by the soivets, meanwhile full of paranoia and mental issues. The difference is that Beth overcomes those problems and has a happy ending, while with Fischer is the opposite.
I hope anya casual hair are red. She looks so gorgeous
LOL. The queens gambit is an aggressive opening ? LOL again.
My thought exactly. The fact that she played it in that final game represents her newfound maturity. She played ultra-aggressive openings all her life, and now she's settling down and willing to play something less "violent".
Also, even though Benny is supposed to be based on Bobby Fischer (only saner), Beth is actually more like him. And both of them played 1. e4 almost exclusively their entire lives, playing the Queen's Gambit just once, in a key game against a Soviet world champion.
The camera work was terrifying...
A fedora is not a cowboy hat.
"Step father"
Engagement Bait. Do not engage.
Most of the observations supposedly relating to Fischer are applicable to many chess players. The defining features of Fischer, his overpowering arrogance and unmatched (for the time) skill are absent. The impression is that the character in the series is a very good American player, which at the time the series is set is not particularly flattering. This tells me more that the maker of the video knows about Fischer because he was famous (and American) but these observations on character similarities are simplistic and unconvincing.
Dominoes? Those are dice.
Chess isn’t that accurate really. People don’t tumble their kings to resign, not even between amateurs. Matches with long time controls (1 hour or more for 40 moves) are played much slower than shown. It’s very, very rare that a player wins all or almost all games in a high level tournament like Beth does, most games are drawn.
On the other hand, looking at the ceiling to visualize moves is common among top players, several do it, not only Ivanchuck (shown in the video).
Maybe they did that with the King at the time? / Even more so before that. "Old-fashioned way of resignation"
Those are not dominos, they are dice @ 2:18- neither have any thing to do with chess. If I'm it my college literature 101 course, your best possible score is a now a D. Now, I'm going to have to grind thru the rest of your review... to see if I fail this and you have to do a rewrite.
my deepest condolences to all chess players who had to endure this video.
Wait Townes is gay? I didnt get that at all from the scene. Is that confirmed somewhere? Did he say that somewhere?
Eps. 7 when he said Russian government will think of him as distraction and Beth said if only they knew
Yeah I agree. I can se why you would think he is gay from that scen. But I think there are even more hints of him being straight!
Hikaru Nakamura stares at the ceiling - often... He is also a potential challenger for the World Championship
It's no dominoes.... It's dice.... you know, like the ones they play on the CASINO THEY WERE...
1.6K people stay Ossa'm
0:01 mate if people don't know why she's crying, then they are either a psychopath or brain.dead.
One huge thing lacking is this wonderful series, is the rampant sexism she would have encountered at that (and any) time. Monica Hesse in the Washington Post points this out.
Great series but I did not like the ending. Much like The Sopranos. Just had a thought. The Sopranos end would have fit The Queen's Gambit. Some mysterious Russian walks up then blackness. Didn't work for Sopranos but would have here.
78 people didn't pay their Mr Shaibel in their life the 10 bucks
Are you talking about dislikes? I disliked the video because the information in it wasn’t very good at all. The comments had much more insight and theories that were enjoyable to read through. The video on the other hand had a lot of obvious statements and even some misinformation.
The explanation why the character of Benny was based on Bobby Fischer makes no sense at all. The only similarity is that they both were chess prodigies and American. Well, aren't all great chess players of the past chess prodigies? The answer is yes. Then in the video they say something about that there is some similarity because Benny and Fischer both stopped competing in chess. Why Fischer quit chess after becoming world champion (Benny didn't become world champion so another big difference) remains unclear. Bobby Fischer became world champion in the year 1972, while the time period in the series is set during the 60's.
I would say Benny shows more similarity with Paul Hogan than with Bobby Fischer.
You know these ppl upset cause they don't know what happens next? I never want to talk about movies with them.
No you are clearly wrong, Beth is based on Bobby Fisher, not Benny.
I agree. She is a composite of Bobby Fischer and Judith Polgar. This is why Fischer is never mentioned in the series (he cannot exist in the series world). But it could be true that Fischer's traits have been divided between Beth and Benny.
2:00 I've seen Nancy Pelosi 👸 put her shades on the EXACT SAME WAY!!!😎😉✌
Or Nakamura lol
Chess is just a game.
Beth is just a girl.
Play for the Draw and protect your rating.
"chess can also be beautiful" ;)
I thought all of these points were obvious when watching the series.
I get that the acting and the cinematography was great.... but it's still chess....
J
Extremely Attention-Grabbing. SUPERB LIMITED SERIES!!!!
So more clickbait and not much of anything else. Honestly as soon as I hear that guys voice I know I clicked the wrong link again. Sounds like a cheesy commercial voice over.
Just wanna quickly mention for the educated chess players in the comments, idk shit about chess
2:12 is Townes really gay tho? That's not obvious to me at all.
wait Townes is gay..
Townes is gay????!!!!!!
Yeah what?? And the narrator just mentions it like its supposed to be obvious too? Hmm...