How to Play Chess Like Beth Harmon
Learn to play like the star of The Queen’s Gambit.
Since its debut on Netflix, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ has taken audiences around the world by storm. It quickly became a record-breaking show and was watched by 62 million households in the first month.
We follow the young Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy, on her way to stardom. The story about an orphan turned global chess champion has led to a huge boom in people playing the game, especially women. She has motivated the world to learn chess, but how can you learn to play like Beth Harmon?
I don’t insinuate that most, or any of us can ever reach the level of Harmon. But she can still teach us some valuable lessons about how to improve as chess players. These are the most insightful lessons I got from watching Beth Harmon learn to play chess.
Obsession
Harmon discovered the game of chess when she was nine and learned to play with the janitor of the orphanage she was living, Mr Shaibel. She quickly became obsessed, as she had few other…
