Thank you very much, Janice. I watched your analysis of the series as part of the Men are Good panel. I left a comment there on it, and liked it much better than you or your friends, although the novel, as is usually the case, was better. I loved the Russian scenes in the TV series. I took a bus tour out of Moscow in 2000 to see the towns in the Golden Ring. In Alexandrov, which Ivan the Terrible made the Russian capital for part of his reign, we were taken to an outdoor stadium where they were celebrating the anniversary of their town's founding. I became so entranced in watching the rows and rows of tables of chess players on the edge of the stadium field that I lost contact with my tour group. A young policeman reunited me with my group. People playing chess on outdoor tables is a real thing in Russia. It's not just in "The Queen's Gambit".
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