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Would you wish to play chess with Beth Harmon? Thanks to a brand new bot developed by Chess.com, followers of The Queen’s Gambit can now do precisely that. If you are nervous about being unable to maintain up along with her — Beth Harmon is a world champion in spite of everything — Chess.com has designed seven totally different Beth Harmons, at varied ages and ranges of chess proficiency. They are: Beth aged eight (850), Beth aged 9 (1200), Beth aged 10 (1600), Beth aged 15 (1800), Beth aged 17 (2400), Beth aged 20 (2500), and Beth aged 22 (2700). The values within the brackets are her Chess.com chess power.
Of course, Chess.com’s Beth Harmon bots haven’t any of Harmon’s character. She will not randomly rise up in the midst of matches and begin strolling away. Nor will she be the impulsive participant that The Queen’s Gambit retains calling her. Or present up late as a result of she’s too drunk and asleep in a tub. Most of that may be a good factor whenever you’re centered on enjoying chess, however do not anticipate it to really feel like enjoying in opposition to Beth Harmon. It’s not like Beth is a real-life determine whose matches are on the report, and Chess.com does not say if it studied her strikes and methods from the Netflix sequence.
Still, it is a enjoyable approach to gas your love for the present and the sport. Since the discharge of The Queen’s Gambit in late October on Netflix, curiosity in chess has skyrocketed. The sport was already rising in reputation due to COVID-19, with individuals pressured to spend extra time inside their properties. And The Queen’s Gambit added to that, with Chess.com claiming they had seen 3.2 million new members as of early December, with 2.5 million coming within the first month. Netflix mentioned The Queen’s Gambit is its most-watched restricted sequence of all time, with 62 million members tuning within the first 4 weeks.
Created by Scott Frank and Allan Scott, and based mostly on Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel, The Queen’s Gambit follows a younger orphan woman Beth Harmon from mid-1950s, as she grows into the world’s best chess participant within the 1960s whereas scuffling with private issues of her personal making or these round her. Anya Taylor-Joy starred because the grownup Beth, with The Queen’s Gambit additionally involving the likes of Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Harry Melling, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Christiane Seidel, and Marcin Dorociński.
The Queen’s Gambit is streaming on Netflix. You can play chess with Beth Harmon on Chess.com.
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