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Wife and I love chess. Anyone else here on wps? Today, Netflix released a new documentary about Han and Magnus. ...  

Throughout my childhood and early adulthood, until my maternal grandfather passed away in 2015. This certainly looks appealing.... Cheers, Filip

I've played chess my whole life. So, if you're rated 1800 you're in the 95th through 99th percentile of all players. 2500 and you're in the top .01 to .1 of chess playes. Years ago I would go to the chess clubs in Greenwich Village after finishing teachin... 

I was playing in Manhattan local tournaments…I had nearly sweated through my shirt. I looked up and do you know what I saw?….a ten year old kid reading a comic book. His mother shrugged and said don’t feel so bad…he beats everyone. That was my last tourna... 

Have you seen Searching for Bobby Fischer? Worth a viewing. You can see how some parents have more invested than the kids. Also Queen's Gambit was excellent.

It requires aptitude but lots of memorization and time.

Scared the hell out of my mom because she always panicked when for an hour we weren't making any noise and she wondered what on earth we were up to. Silent kids through up a lot of red flags back then.