The King is often called the “most important piece” in chess, but there’s one piece everyone might be overlooking. It’s the lowly pawn, which French grandmaster François-André Philidor described as the “soul of chess.” And pawn-love is everywhere in The Queen’s Gambit. To celebrate International Chess Day, we found out why the ultimate underdog piece matters a lot to the game of chess — and why it matters to the ultimate underdog story, The Queen’s Gambit.
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CORRECTION: A chart at 1:01 erroneously swapped the bishop and the rook. The rook should be worth 5 points, and the bishop worth 3.
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In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
The formula you showed for winning percentage doesn't reflect what you said. What you said was a one pawn advantage provides a 64% chance. I plugged in 1 for P and got 75.9%. This video is full of inaccuracy's and blunders.
1:02 how the hell the rook is only 3 points and the bishop is 5? change the two man, that's disgusting
I was thinking at first if Chess would evolve by adding two more pawns. To both a prince and princess chess pieces while adding more spaces equally with the chess field adding more squares with them.
Which includes partially the prince at first moving like a king and the princess moving like the queen both part time. But with their own movements in chess as an additional comment edit.
I know people like this show but it almost maliciously misrepresents what it’s like to play chess in reality. It is neither glamorous, nor exciting, nor as interesting as what the show depicts. They make it look like it’s much more fast paced, like the chess players are exchanging glances, playing psychological games etc. Something like this can be found occasionally but in reality it is much more dull. And the successful players have to be comfortable with boredom and slowness of chess and to be able to sit there for hours.
More importantly this isn’t a game someone learns in a couple days, and then within two months discovers to have genius talent just by wanting to play hard. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Adult players who love the game love making stuff up to attract younger players to the game just to validate their own habit of spending hours on something which neither produces a tangible product, does not bring you money, or arguably benefit the player in any way. In fact it’s possible it makes people paranoid and anxious.
Holy hell