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Daisugi is a sustainable forestry technique that originated in Kyoto in the 14th or 15th century. The tops of Kitayama cedar trees are carefully pruned so that a stand of very straight branches grow straight up from a main platform. From Spoon & Tamago:
“It’s not a love affair or a marriage; it’s a job," says the biographer Hermione Lee, who is taking on her first living subject... Tom Stoppard
The Impeach Mint, a collection of commemorative coins that celebrate some of the many failures of the Trump administration.
Everything new to Netflix, Stan, Binge, Foxtel Now, Amazon, Disney+ and more in November
For the fourth season of Netflix’s drama on Queen Elizabeth and the British monarchy, The Crown moves into the 1980s. The first full trailer features two women who largely defined Britain in that decade: Margaret Thatcher (played by Gillian Anderson) and Lady Diana Spencer, later Princess Diana (played by Emma Corrin). As a fan of the first three seasons of the show and You’re Wrong About’s multi-part series on Princess Diana, I am very much looking forward to this.
When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece
Boswell's Life of Johnson is not just one of my favorite books, it also engendered some of my favorite book reviews. While praise for the work is universal, the main question commentators try to answer is this: how did the worst man in the world manage to write the best biography?
When the Worst Man in the World Writes a Masterpiece
The Queen's Gambit is a seven-part period drama about a chess player in the 1960s. It is also one of the most watched shows on Netflix – worldwide and in Australia.
If these two statements seem incompatible, you must be too young to remember the time, half a century ago, when Australian television featured a nightly, high-rating, chess program which followed the erratic American Bobby Fischer's world title match victory against reigning champion, Boris Spassky.
I'm a Grandmaster and The Queen's Gambit has all the right moves
The Queen’s Gambit is probably the most popular gambit and although most gambits are said to be unsound against perfect play the queen’s gambit is said to be the exception.
1. d4 d5
2. c4
The objective of the queen’s gambit is to temporarily sacrifice a pawn to gain control of the e5 square.
If black accepts the gambit 2…dxc4 white should reply 3. e3 which not only gives the d4 pawn an extra defender but also frees up the bishop to attack and regain the pawn. Black will have a hard time holding onto the pawn after 3…b5 4. a4 c6 5. axb5 cxb5 6. Qf3. In the Queen’s Gambit accepted line, white is able to gain a center presence, good attacking chances and his pawn on d4 threatens to advance. Black will have to concede his pawn on c4 and focus on counter attacking white’s advances. This is why the queen’s gambit is not considered to be a true gambit. There are many different variations for black if he chooses to decline the gambit.
The video will focus on many of these variations. This is one of the most popular openings because of its attacking prowess. White will be attacking and it will be up to black to defend correctly. If you enjoy putting constant pressure on your opponent then the queen’s gambit is a perfect opening for you. Watch the video below to watch more detailed explanations of the opening, multiple variations, and extended lines.
Famous Games using the Queen’s Gambit
Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon in ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ Netflix’s new miniseries
The Queen’s Gambit is a story about relationships. How they make you who you are, and you are absolutely nothing without them. Many of the reviews you will read in the following days will revolve around the concept of genius, it’s perks, it’s downsides. But The Queen’s Gambit transcends that, using the genius figure just as a means to explain a greater story: the story about the love we receive.
I’m known for binging on shows. Watching one in a day is not something new. Watching one this good is, and if I may say so, I have a lot to compare it to.
Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel “The Queen’s Gambit,” about a female chess prodigy, has become a miniseries, premiering Friday on Netflix. It is a sports story, a coming-of-age story and a becoming-human story, and also a kind of mortal version of that popular modern genre, the inner life of a superhero, and the first thing to say about it is that it is very good — thoughtful, exciting, entertaining. Tevis was also the author of the pool novel “The Hustler,” its sequel, “The Color of Money,” and the sci-fi parable “The Man Who Fell to Earth." “The Queen’s Gambit” sits among them as a mathematical sports novel with an uncanny heroine.
Netflix’s audacious chess drama, ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ is your perfect weekend binge
The Queen’s Gambit, Netflix’s limited-series adaptation of Walter Trevis’s novelof the same name, premiered on October 23. The seven-episode series follows Beth Harmon (played by Anya Taylor-Joy) from her hardscrabble youth in an orphanage through to her life as a world-renown chess champion, and features a stellar supporting cast including Marielle Heller, Bill Camp, Harry Melling, Moses Ingram, and more. The show follows the book closely, however there’s still a chance that the limited series could extend the story.
Will There Be a The Queen’s Gambit Season 2?
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Barack Obama’s forthcoming memoir, A Promised Land, is coming out next month. The New Yorker is running an excerpt of the book, an account of his administration’s struggle to get the Affordable Care Act through Congress.
As time went on, though, it became hard to ignore some of the more troubling impulses driving the movement. As had been true at Palin rallies, reporters at Tea Party events caught attendees comparing me to animals or Hitler. Signs turned up showing me dressed like an African witch doctor with a bone through my nose. Conspiracy theories abounded: that my health-care bill would set up “death panels” to evaluate whether people deserved treatment, clearing the way for “government-encouraged euthanasia,” or that it would benefit illegal immigrants, in the service of my larger goal of flooding the country with welfare-dependent, reliably Democratic voters. The Tea Party also resurrected an old rumor from the campaign: that I was not only Muslim but had actually been born in Kenya, and was therefore constitutionally barred from serving as President. By September, the question of how much nativism and racism explained the Tea Party’s rise had become a major topic of debate on the cable shows-especially after the former President and lifelong Southerner Jimmy Carter offered up the opinion that the extreme vitriol directed toward me was at least in part spawned by racist views.