The Queen's Gambit & The Beauty of the Game of Chess 

The thing I don't like about this video is that it doesn't have enough views

I was never interested in chess, but the series surely made me appreciate it and realise it can be quite exciting (i was biting my nails during her entire game sequence with the russians). Loved the video too!

Hey everyone, thank you for watching! It feels good to finally have a video centering around a longtime passion of mine, not that I've ever been very good at the game, my peak ELO rating was somewhere around 1100, but I've always had a lot of love for the game and couldn't be happier to see somewhat of a chess boom happening, and I wanted to play my own part in hopefully inspiring more people to pick up the game, so I hope you guys enjoyed! I'd really appreciate y'all leaving a like if you liked it, and subscribe if you want to see more videos in the future :D

Daniel, a superb essay on the value and beauty of chess and just how effective TQG was in portraying the grip it can have on those who love it. I consider this a fine "sale tool" to show someone who's considering learning the game; you don't have to be a world champ to enjoy it.

I was never very good at chess, strategy in general isn't my strong suit. But growing up I loved watching my brother and stepdad play. My brother is a prodigy level genius and my stepdad is a lineman who never graduated highschool. It was neat to see two people so different give each other a run for their money in this game that always seemed to have an air of elitism and a high bar for entry. This video inspired me to break out my old chessboard and challenge myself to a game!

My uncle was a national chess player and all my family played, so I was introduced to chess at a young age, which attracted me to the series ❤️ I love chess, just sad no one around me really plays.

I love the way you capture the essence of the series and the game. A simple, great equalizer hiding in plain sight. Perfect in these chaotic times. I can see the show's interest touches a chord people didn't know they had, that there's an unmet hunger for more.

Chess and ballet are intrinsically very similar. Both are mental and take immense discipline. I actually wrote a college essay on the similarities between the two! This video solidified my confidence in my idea of the two being mainly the same. I adored this video and the show so much! This is absolutely a lovely video! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

This was awesome, I love the attention paid to the incredibly poignant notion of chess as art, science, and sport. There is a lot to digest, you managed to cover nearly everything that makes chess so extraordinary. Seriously, great editing and and visual storytelling. The Queen's Gambit is my favorite show of this year and this is my favorite essay/piece about it, not to mention the best love letter to chess that I've seen. 17 and a half minutes of QUALITY content.

This is a great essay related to the show. Just finished watching the show when I chanced upon this. There is a lot indeed to 'see' in chess and you've made me realize many of them. Things I didn't see decades ago when I was still a kid playing it. Such a beautiful game. Thanks.

Your video essyas are spectacular. You deserve way more appreciation.

Watching this video is the best thing that has happened to me today.. Great content bro. Loved the script, your narration, music, editing, everything is perfect. Looking forward to watching more such videos on this channel. 💜

Great video essay - it is, like chess itself, both scientific and artistic

This is an amazing video. Daniel Nenzel is very talented! I enjoyed it a lot!❤️🙏👏

I'm liking the content, it's not about the movie but more about the game loved watching this.

Great video, just played a game after so long after watching the video, it was so much fun.

this encourages me a lot tysm for making this vid

Ive been into Chess for decades, way, way before this series, its always been my fave game, but its not just a game, its an art, a science, and has always hooked m e. I play club chess and internet chess, ive won a number of trophies at Chess tournaments. The series is very good, well filmed, acted, shows the 1960s as how i recall it, tho i was pretty young then. im glad this series will get more folks into the Royal game, even if it is fiction, as the book is, its still very well done indeed. ONly two faults, one is in real tournaments, you dont play so fast, as they do in this, u take ur time, on certain moves, dont rush if its not speed chess. And u r required, in serious tournament games, to write down all ur moves, after each move, u cannot just not write them and bank them later, that is not allowed in tournaments so thats a small fault. But, it is a great series, which i hear has led to a boom in Chess set sales, maybe lockdowns have helped that too, i guess.

This was beautifully done. Amazing work! You've earned my subscription.

*chefs kiss* beautiful video. Couldn't have put it better

Amazing video!

I could really tell how passionated you are about the subject. Made it really fun to watch.

Amazing video. Well done.

This video deserves a lot more views my dude

This is a brilliant review of The Queen's Gambit.

your edition is another level

beautiful piece

i don't remember subscribing to this channe but i'm glad i did , on my way to binge watch everything posted !

Nice overview of the competitive and creative aspects of chess as well as the outstanding Queens Gambit series on Netflix. Your video made me a subscriber.

Great video and pacing as always

Wonderful video! Brilliant job :)))

Beautiful video Daniel! 👏

My biggest regret was stopping chess at 5th grade,i played again after 10 years. This show bought me back.

My cup of tea! ❤

THIS FUCKING VIDEO IS A CLASSIC

thankyou for this daniel, it brought back happy memories of playing the game with my grandfather. He played correspondence chess with a man called Mr fenton in america. I think the war put an end to it. My grandfathers name was crofts and he lived in yorkshire. I often wonder if any of his family are still around. Thanks

BTW, I've been enjoying your streams :D

Everytime I build a chess strategy in real time to winning a game with 4 moves opening it excites me I didn’t know something this small and simple could give me this pleasure indeed chess is an aesthetic art

Binged the series after watching this video, thanks!

love your videos

Amazing video! So great to see just how inclusive this game is and also ot learn more about such an expansive history.

Chess and baseball. The older I get the more I truly appreciate them.

Chess, sure it’s tough. But to become a checkers mastermind... it takes an OG to master a similar sport with a smaller toolset. You need to ascend to something more than human.

Just checking, did you ask for permission to use numberphile’s video? Because I can’t find you quoting your source for the clip you put in and you should acknowledge the original video in some way

Great video, Dan. I've yet to watch the series, but I've seen a lot of fanarts of it PS: I think something went wrong in the subtitles

I thought this video was wonderful!

this is now one of my fav vids🙃

i think there might be something interesting in how rubik's cubes have 54 squares (9 on each of the 6 faces) in 3D space while chess has 64 squares all on a flat plane.

Great show and what an amazing video! Both have definitely reignited my passion for chess. What are good book/website/video recommendations for beginners?

Amazing video! I've been playing 10 hours a day this lasth month, I'm still not near as good as I would like (almost 1200 ranking) but I'm getting better very fast (a month ago I was 800)

Tick tack toe now there’s a game of champions

Thank you Mister 😙💞😙

Been debating watching this while finishing 7 Deadly Sins on Netflix. Lmao

"When I kill, when I dispatch a target, it is not about wanton slaughter. About body count. It is about finesse, function. Doing more with less. It is *art*". HK-47

I’ve seen the series about 100 times according to my wife. I notice little things all the time. I get to back in time to Uc Berkeley international house where there speed chess games every night. Saw walter brown who would become US champion tear up the local champion.

IM SO BAD AT CHESS I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO COME UP WITH A PLAN 😭

Dude really had to use the bears double doink clip..

What i think made the series so god damned good was that it was a break away from the old superhero trope, with perfect humans etc etc. Elizabeth Harmon has her own demons in her closet and she has to fight them, yet they nearly win. It was a human like story, a protagonist with flaws just like the rest of us and she battles those demons all through the series and they almost get the better off her. How important it can be to have someone believe in you. She was not a political figure as so many protagonists are today, she didnt even side between russia and the usa, she was there to play chess and that was enough. She was a human with her own wants needs and desires just like the rest of us.

Someone never heard of the game of Go. In fact, mathematician John Conway showed that Go can be used as the basis of a whole new realm of numbers. This is so profound that even some chess positions are equivalent to Go positions. Chess itself has absolutely no scientific interest.

the merits of chess share some similarities to those of speedcubing. our hardware is available for 10 bucks. Magnets in the pieces and everything. sadly you can't quite play by notation yet and you can't play it for free on a mobile app. although you have free timers so anyone can officially time solves on cubes! you could also try to solve a virtual cube though not as fast as you would do in a competition. Speedcubing teaches sportmanship, introspection and the community by and large is very wholesome. It's been around for a long time like chess and has been oddly male-saturated for a while until recently. Oh and we also have a pretty infinitesimal number of permutable combinations to solves, no two cubers (professionally) would solve the exact same way and variations on methods to solve are STAGGERING. Roux, CFOP, ZZ, Petrus, Old Pochmann, 3-style, Ernest Rubik's original method. And that's just on the 3x3.

I'm curious, are you a fan of modern hobby board games? Something like Tigris and Euphrates seems like it would be right up your alley

I don't have the patience to play the game......wish I did

Great video! Only thing I would say is that Chess isn’t for everyone, as people have different kinds of intelligence. Some people are better at building arguments and making connections, rather than memorization and problem solving, and if you’re that kind of person, I would argue Chess isn’t for you

Poker has all of the exact same properties as Chess. The only difference being it is a game of 'imperfect' information. There is more variance/luck in poker. At the end of the day those with the best STRATEIES for playing their cards in 100s of thousands of different situations consistently win overtime. There are hundreds of stories of people who have started with 50 dollars and with years of study moved up to eventually play at the highest stakes.

In Reality-if I can put through the game, A Queen is necessary to win otherwise you,ll lose.

In chess everyone does not have the same chances to succeed no more than in basketball. It's just that different things are important. Why do people pretend that if muscles are not involved everyone is suddenly equal.

what the hell happened to the subtitles??

Who is looked at it as a game for white stuffy preps or nerds. It’s nice to see I’m wrong but I could never consider it a sport. But it’s definitely a powerful mental competition hands-down.

The only thing as strategic as chess I'd say is football.

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Paul Morphy :D

I Love 😘 THINKING STYLE 💕 Though One Like an Chess Master Here Its So INTENSELY Though Out Well Done 👍 ✅ ☺️ I'm Going To Follow You on TWITTER ☺️ Now;)

Good Fiction. Chasing Bobby Fisher was better.

V e r Y N i c e . . . G G 😎

Did anyone else play Kung Fu Chess back in the day?

Feels like you think this was based on a true story, but it’s not. The idea that chess is inherently feminist would be news to feminists, I’m fairly sure

U know that women allowed in the men competition, but not the other way around.

4:38 Dinesh D'Souza: " No, that's wrong stats have shown that almost no woman can be grandmaster. This show is rubbish and overly feminist"

Loved the show but chess and math piss me off because they both make me feel stupid. Numbers have been the bane of my existence.

On June 9, 2020, Jesus made history by becoming the best chess player of all time, defeating the infantile xQc.

Ur editing is beautiful.