"The Queen's Gambit"
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The old Walter Tevis novel, "The Queen's Gambit", has been adapted by Netflix. I'm old enough to remember the endless discussions about whether Bobby Fischer was crazy or emotionally disturbed, and you can get more of this in "Luzhin's Defense", so I don't exactly feel a burning desire to see further portrayals of chess players whose sanity is in on the edge.
For those of you who have seen it, what do you think? (Please don't include spoilers.) Here are some essentially spoiler-free comments by Tyler Cowen, primarily on the chess elements.