After many analyzes on the Netflix series, Lady’s Gambit, chess experts assure that this sport makes the people who play it look more sensual and captivates viewers with its concentration, strategist and intelligence of the participants.
When a series becomes popular for its theme, it usually sets a real-life trend. So it is with chess that has helped people discover how interesting and fascinating this sport can be.
The sensuality of chess
To the best chess player in the UK, Jovanka HouskaIt can be sexy because it concentrates a climate of tension, emotion and reading from the other, which can generate a very high climax.
So he wrote in his book The mating game, who talks about a bisexual chess player and explains through that character the eroticism of the game. Although he intensifies this theme because of a narrative issue, the truth is that the ideas were drawn from his professional experience.
??Chess is sexy. Many of the best players in the world are currently under the age of 30 and thousands of them are daring beautiful women and are drawn to the challenge to prove themselves to be as good as men, and better, in a game that was predominantly male until now? the British Women’s Chess Champion said in a Telegraph column.
And followed: In how many other sports can you allow yourself to sit a few feet away from your opponents for several hours and, if you’re attracted to them, exchange eye contact while trying to beat them? “.
Houska explained that she used this chess eroticism, which she can analyze in Queen’s Gambit, to her advantage during her games: “I don’t see anything unethical about making myself look the best I can before a big game against a male player. If I can distract him and keep him from making the best move, fine, that’s part of the competition.??.