The Queen's Gambit: A Fairy Tale (40:26) ~ Men Are Good!

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

No Reverse Gear Elizabeth! || Harmon vs Beltik || Netflix's Queen's Gambit (23:21) ~ agadmator's Chess Channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaMv4cQtEnw

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Ah, are you a chess player as well? I love Agadmator's videos and have been binge watching them recently.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I learned the game as a kid. My likely last game was just after my 21st birthday... until this summer, just before my 50th. My older neighbour upstairs loves to play. He's not bright on much, but he's a hellova life-long player. So now I'm more interested in it. Before next summer I'm going to make him a better game table, a second 4'x4' game table in the back yard with 6" tiles and figures to be determined (ie. plastic bottles of various shapes and sizes filled with water or sand until I make simple wood figures), and I have a perfect place in my apartment to eventually make and stow a roll-out chess table, so he can come visit me.

I'm not the fastest player, and my moods and focus make a big difference. I like to study the boards and his videos explain it clearly but it's all so fast that I don't enjoy it - yet. Maybe next year.

This Christmas I'm going to take him a thumbdrive with The Queens Gambit, The Curse Of Oak Island, and The Detectorists. I loved the latter, and might watch the former with him. I said he's not bright - he has faith in the lottery and loves metal detecting videos, including where people throw big magnets into the water to find treasures. Sure it's possible, but it's not fucking likely.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I didn't realize you're 50 years old. It's cool that you're so open. If chess videos go too fast, perhaps a better way to study games is to get the PGN and play the game out on a physical board.

It's the same for me, I learned to play chess as a kid. And I picked up on it this year as well. We've got to play a game some time, what do you say?

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't realize it until a month after, and even still I don't. It's a phat number. I'm too immature to be that old. Also, I lost a dozen years to Big Pharma poisons. A decade is lost in the fog. I don't know if that's too much personal information, if that's what you mean by "so open".

I play all my YouTube videos at 2x or more (except music). But only 2x on Waterfox until I can find an addon to go faster. It's like reading with ears. Chess videos are tedious. Glancing is fine, but I want to process it. I still need time, engagement, and focus for that. OCD rules me, so not for now. It's challenging, but not it the way I need these days.

My neighbour always wants me to play chess games too. Maybe. Until this year I simply always said, "I don't do games." Evidently I make exceptions. He also wants me to learn his primary game for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion_II:_Battle_at_Antares I keep meaning to make a post about it asking about good tutorials, if anyone wants to play online and/or knows of other games he (70+) and I (a non-gamer) might enjoy, together or apart.