Theme Song- The Queen's Gambit
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author/ Acheng
design/huimeng@TOPYS
"D4, D5, C4", in fact, this series of "D4, D5, C4" looks like a series of common post-digital chess pawns. The expression of chess record, which represents the meaning is to fight for control of the center of the chessboard through the form of sacrificing forward pawns, so that your own chess pieces have more advantages in the middle and late game.
But this chess term has a new interpretation in the recent popular American drama "The Queen's Gambit". There is no doubt that the queen in the title refers to the heroine Beth Harmon (Beth Harmon), a genius chess player suffering from mental illness. But what puzzles me is that sacrificed soldier? What are the pawns that hinder the queen’s advancement and need to give up at the first step? Z2z
brushed a few more times, the "soldiers" I saw were stereotypes, interpersonal relationships, and personality defects. Only by discarding them before the start of the game can the queen exert her due power on the board.
hopes that the analysis of this play will not only allow you to see the ever-changing charm of chess, but also the hidden information in the play.
starts the
gender battle,
Opposite-colored Bishops (Opposite-colored Bishops): When the chess players have a bishop and they are in different colored grids. Heterogeneous elephants can never be directly touched.
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Although the difference in the order of the first moves may have an extremely weak effect on the final result, it is undeniable that chess is still a relatively fair game. The official story of
began with a car accident in which the heroine Beth Harmon lost her biological mother and was taken to an orphanage to raise her.
Picture: The first episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Back Wing"-the opening
In the orphanage, she was exposed to the beloved chess of her life, but she also took tranquilizers by accident and developed an addictive reaction. Chess and addiction have become the two intertwined main themes in her life.
has an unusual obsession with drugs when it comes to addiction.
After stopping the delivery of tranquilizers, Beth even decided to steal the drugs. Picture: The first episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-opening
. In chess, Beth has an extraordinary talent. By observing the school workers playing chess, she easily understood the way of chess. After simple training, she can skillfully use various opening strategies and variants. After a short period of training, in an era when it was generally believed that male players were far superior to female players, the young Beth used her strength to attack stereotypes.
Picture: The first episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-the opening
Even though Beth won a big victory, the stereotype that women are intellectually weaker than men over time cannot be completely broken in a game. Not only are men accustomed to this stereotype, many women also feel that there is nothing wrong with self-dwarfing. The reason for
is that chess, as a kind of intellectual sport with a long history, has always been regarded as a game played by smart people in the Western world, and it is also regarded as a game full of masculinity. When Beth asked Mr. Sabe to learn chess, Mr. Sabe was not willing to accept it, but said to her "girls don't play chess." Until Beth proved that she was worthy of training with her intelligence.
Picture: The first episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-opening
Following Beth's later adoption by the Whitleys, the host is a businessman who travels around on business, and the hostess is a full-time housewife with only promise. Facing Beth’s arrival, Mrs. Whitley was very enthusiastic, while Mr. Whitley was a little cold, because he thought from the bottom of his heart that Beth was just a gadget she took back to spend time with Mrs. Whitley That's it.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-Substitute
Beth did not give up chess because of her adoption. She still pursues the road of chess firmly, even if her family and classmates do not embrace all her choices Understanding attitude.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wings"-change
Moreover, in the professional arena, we can also feel that the way chess players treat male and female opponents is like the different colors on the chessboard. In the first few games of Beth, apart from the friendly side of the female players and the male Towns, the male players treated Beth with contempt.
, for example, set the drinking bucket next to the female contestant. Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Back Wing"-change
And in the third episode, when Beth won her reputation as a "chess genius girl", reporters from the top US media "Life" magazine came Interviewing Bess, we can still see from the dialogue between them how profound the stereotyped perceptions that women were intellectually inferior to men were. The first thing she cares about is whether Beth is afraid of being surrounded by men (the journalist’s words are actually very interesting, intimidate is very deep in English, and it may be more accurate to translate into fearfulness)-even if she already knows Beth It is the winner of the last big killing of the Quartet.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-Substitute
. Her subsequent supplementary explanation truthfully reflects Beauvoir’s statement in "Second Sex" that " women are not born, they are formed " Proposition. Obviously, the reporter's growth experience shows that in the American education system at that time, women were not encouraged to participate in competition, but were "domesticated" with dolls into women who were more adapted to traditional gender roles. The public, represented by her, regards Beth, who is "competitive", as a different kind.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-change
. When talking with her mother in the dining room between Beth, Beth keenly pointed out: Everyone's report on her is not because of her excellent chess skills, but Because she is a female, is like you see a cat who can only play the piano. You don't care whether it plays Beethoven or Mozart. You care more about how the cat can play the piano, and it does well.
Is there any solution to this dilemma? The screenwriter borrowed the dialogue from the play to tell everyone.
in the middle game
close relationship, king car translocation
king car translocation: the purpose is to transfer the king to a safe position and let the car go into battle as soon as possible.
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When watching this show, Beth seemed to lose a trace of "feminine". Don't get me wrong, the "dressing way" that is so exquisite to the hair in the play has already made the major fashion KoL clean Beth's way of dressing. What I mean by "feminine" refers to the missing "knight" and "queen" in the play- is the male and female characters that protect the growth of the heroine.
is different from the TV series that is almost a fixed formula. We have never seen Beth have any long-term and stable intimacy in this drama. And Beth also showed abnormal precocity, she was not keen on things that girls of the same age were crazy about.
Picture: "The Rear Wing Abandoned Soldiers" Episode 3-Stacked Soldiers
Picture: "The Rear Wing Abandoned Soldiers" Episode 3-Stacked Soldiers
She behaved like a car passing a king car translocation in the episode. Protect the weak king and use his power to gallop in the sixty-four grids. Her growth experience taught her to be strong. She learned in the cruel world of chess that only by improving her strength can she gain respect.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wings"-change of son
Stepmother Emma Whitley is nominally Beth's mother, but she is self-willed, weak, and alcoholic, but she seems to be Beth's When her daughter, not her mother, asked Beth timidly if she would share her 10% bonus as agent commission, Beth generously increased the commission to 15%. Even if she quarreled, Beth asked for it first. And hands.
Picture: The third episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-Stacked Soldiers
When Beth graduated, Mrs. Whitley generously donated a Bulova watch to impress the mother and daughter's sincere feelings. And this watch also made Beth realize in the later plot that she had been loved.
Picture: The fourth episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-the midgame
contest is coming soon, Mrs. Whitley encouraged Beth to relax and challenge easily. She told Beth countless times that your talent is unparalleled and your intuition will lead you to victory.
Picture: The fourth episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-midgame
. In the face of failure, she tried her best to comfort Beth. After being hit by Beth, she did not give in, but went back head-on. Sooner or later Beth will taste the taste of failure, and as a mother, it is her responsibility to teach Beth to deal with failure correctly.
Picture: The fourth episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-middle game
As for the love line, the vast majority of men in "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing" come as a foil. For example, the first love Towns, although Beth has him in his heart, but Towns does not have her in his heart. He only appears before and after the episode to cheer for Beth. Although there are other ministers under the skirt, the significance is obvious, either to set off the heroine's strength, or to help the heroine upgrade and fight monsters.
If Beth's only intimate relationship in the film should be established between her and chess. Her understanding of chess has transcended the shackles of form and moved to the height of artistic conception.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-Substitute
Seeing this paragraph, I suddenly remembered that a doctor of mathematics once asked me in doubt: "Z11z, don't you think Euler's formula eiπ+1=0 is beautiful? Z12z" I thought: Only people who are really passionate about things can understand the hidden beauty.
endgame
defeats the inner demon, after the pawn promotion,
after the pawn promotion: refers to a special move of the pawn in chess. When a pawn on one side reaches the bottom line by going straight or eating diagonally (the eighth horizontal line for white and the first horizontal line for black), it can become one of back, cart, horse, and elephant. In most In this case, the pawns are all promoted to the rear, because the rear is the most powerful.
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Zweig wrote in The Queen of Decapitation: “She (Marie Antoinette) was too young at the time to know all the gifts given by fate, and she had already secretly marked the price.”
And Beth is also such a young girl, she has an unforgettable memory and super logical analysis ability, but with it, it is also a curse of genius. She is very irritable and gets angry whenever the situation is not going well. And this, in the first half of the plot, has already laid the groundwork.
Picture: The fourth episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-the mid-game
's irritable personality and addictive physique made Bess go very bumpy on the chess road. The screenwriter several times expressed her through the mouth of others Extraordinary talent is also an inevitable curse. The same is in the play that was interviewed, the screenwriter first borrowed the words of the reporter to say an interesting setting-the genius and the lunatic are just two sides of one.
Picture: The second episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wings"-change to
. In the Mexico City game, the screenwriter repeated his description of the role of Beth through Mr. Sabie's mouth.
Picture: The fourth episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-midgame
. The most important thing is that Beth has a natural fear of Bogov who is similar to the existence of the big devil in the play. In the zoo in Mexico City, when the hostess first saw Bogov, this fear could not be concealed.
Picture: The fourth episode of "Abandoning the Rear Wings"-In the middle game of
in Mexico City and Paris, Beth lost to Bogov without any accident, especially in the first battle in Paris, even before the match. , But was still almost beaten to the point of no fight back.
Picture: The sixth episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-the finale
immediately ushered in a long period of low ebb. In the time when smoking and drinking are just not burning your head, squander your talent and talent. It wasn't until those who had cared for her appeared in her life again in different forms that she had the strength to regain her strength and return to the game.
Picture: "Abandoned the Rear Wing" Episode 5-Catch Double
Picture: "Abandoned the Back Wing" Episode 6-Closed plate
Picture: "Abandoned Back Wing" Episode 6-Closing plate
Picture: "After "Wing Abandoned Soldier" Episode 7-Endgame
And the difference from before is that she learned to enjoy the joy of chess this time, rather than just playing for the game. Also learn to hug yourself, stop drinking, stop taking drugs. The ending is naturally self-evident, even if the Soviet team came to fight, under the aura of the heroine's protagonist, it seemed so vulnerable. As the "big devil" set in the play, Bogov is here, acting like a polite gentleman.
Picture: The seventh episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-final game
This handshake announces the passing of the chess king. Picture: The main story of the seventh episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-the final episode
ends here, but the surprise does not stop. If you have a basic understanding of chess, you will find that this last game is almost the outline of the whole play. Although the show is titled "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing", Beth never used abandoning soldiers on the rear wing as an opening tactic in the whole show, until she finally decided to start with the abandoning soldiers on the rear wing, which Bogov and she are very good at.
In the last few moves, Beth took the initiative to change horses and replaced the opponent's weaker with the strongest piece.
Picture: The seventh episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-the final game
uses a car as a cover, while using an elephant to protect the weakest pawn on the board.
Picture: The seventh episode of "Abandoning the Rear Wing"-the final game
forced Bogov to abandon the bottom line defense and complete the pawn promotion.
Picture: The seventh episode of "Abandoned the Rear Wing"-final game
Picture: The seventh episode of "Abandoned the Back Wing"-final game
This soldier is like a metaphor for Beth. She is an orphan with an addictive personality, walking on the chessboard. The car and elephant that helped her grow can be regarded as the people who helped her in her life. With their help, Beth defeated the demon who troubled her, the Black King escaped, and she also completed the process of her being crowned from a small soldier.
returns after white. Picture: The seventh episode of "Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing"-Finale
Postscript:
Everyone always has their own perspective when watching Abandoned Soldiers on the Rear Wing.
Some people saw the exquisite service-oriented Tao, full of metaphors, but still elegant; some people saw the intellectual confrontation during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (if you are interested, you can search for Beth Harmon’s prototype character—— Bobby Fisher's story); and when I was watching this play, I kept thinking about a question-why are female chess masters so rare?
It is true that women have played many outstanding chess players in the history of chess. Seniors such as the Three Sisters of Polga, Vera Minchik, Maya Chiburdanize, Xie Jun, and active players such as Hou Yifan, Konelu, and Tan Zhongyi, but comparing them with male chess players, we can still See a big gap. Even Judit Polgar, the "strongest king" who made history, has the highest record of only 8th in the world-there are still 7 male players better than her.
But I don't think this is a difference in IQ. Art historian Linda Nochlin explained in her essay "Why There Are No Great Female Artists" as early as the 1970s. The disadvantaged position of women in various careers is not determined by women. It is decided by men, and more accurately, by the patriarchal society. The anthropologist Marilyn Yalom also explained this phenomenon in her book "The Birth of the Chess Queen": a normal chess game training takes a long time, and The positioning of women in traditional families is destined to prevent her from taking consistent time for training, and the society also expects women to fulfill her "duty".
Fortunately, with the progress of society, we are delighted to see more and more women fall in love with chess, which is considered a male sport in the "traditional sense". (The reason why the traditional meaning is quoted is because there have been so many outstanding female chess players in history.)
I sincerely look forward to: can also see "Beth Harmon" in real life as soon as possible.
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