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Clips from The Queen's Gambit (2020) - Doubled Pawns (S01E01)

"[chess pieces clatter softly]"
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"-Here we go. -[chuckles]"
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"You too."
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"Dinner's at nine."
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"Don't forget."
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"[man on TV] Marge, did your aunt leave you everything?"
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"[woman on TV] I was her only heir."
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"Where have you been, honey?"
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"You've been gone for hours."
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"-Playing chess. -[woman] I don't wanna talk about it."
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"[man] Well, it's the perfume I use that makes me smell so nice."
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"Do me a favor and hand me a beer on the desk?"
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"[woman] What do you want?"
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"[man] I think I've got one. I think I've got a gimmick."
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"A gimmick is an angle that works for you."
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"To keep you from working too hard for yourself."
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"-Simple. -[woman] Specifically, what is your angle?"
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"I suppose you've never had beer."
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"[woman] Come here."
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"My father used to work here as a mill hand."
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"-[man] So did mine. When he was sober. -Whoa, whoa, whoa. Not so fast."
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"[man] Now, you're even."
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"I was 21 when I took it over. It had 3,000 workers then."
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"It's got 30,000 now."
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"Ran as far as that gate, now it goes down to the edge of the river."
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"-Without Walter, without-- -I'd like another."
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"-[woman] All by myself. -You really shouldn't."
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"[man] Half of this should make quite a score."
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"All right."
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"But if you're gonna have one, get me one, too."
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"[man] That's what I had in mind."
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"[woman] You went out of here a dirty kid once before,"
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"that can happen again."
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"[man on commercial] Escape from clothesline drudgery,"
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"[woman on commercial] When you buy your dryer, be sure you get the best kind,"
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"a gas dryer."
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"Your most delicate fabrics are safe in a gas dryer."
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"See? A gentle stream of warm air sends the clothes' moisture away."
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"[Beth] My first match was against this guy from Oklahoma."
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"Ouch."
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"Then, this guy from San Francisco."
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"I played the Marshall."
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"Um, sacrificed my queen, the way that Paul Morphy did one time."
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"Bobby something?"
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"-Benny Watts. -Yes, him."
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"Queens Gambit Declined is so well respected."
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"[Beth] I've seen him a couple of times."
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"Always got a crowd around him."
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"Well, of course, he's the US Champion."
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"He's Benny Watts."
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"[Beth] Some people say he's the most talented American player"
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"since Morphy."
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"I read about a game he played in Copenhagen,"
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"a draw against Najdorf."
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"That was in 1948,"
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"which means that Benny was eight years old."
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"He played against the entire team at Annapolis without losing a game."
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"Sounds like someone else I know."
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"When I was nine, I was playing Mr. Shaibel in the basement."
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"Anyway, I'm not afraid of him."
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"There is one player that scares me."
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"Who?"
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"The Russian."
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"[Benny] It's a lot more of a dynamic game than the Caro."
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"Which is not the case with QGD versus Slav."
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"You're Beth Harmon."
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"I saw the piece in Life."
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"Game they printed, that was a pretty one. The one with you and Beltik."
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"[Beth] Thank you."
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"[Beth] I know."
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"We met a couple of years ago in Cincinnati."
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"Didn't meet, but we spoke."
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"-Cincinnati? -You didn't play that year."
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"Okay, I'll take your word for it."
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"In your game with Beltik."
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"I needed to get the rook out."
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"Well, you could have lost your advantage."
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"I don't think so."
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"He plays pawn-takes-pawn. You can't take back."
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"I don't want to set it up and think it out."
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"[Beth] Beltik could have beat me."
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"But he didn't."
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"Yes, but he could have."
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"What's worse is I didn't even see it."
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"Benny Watts, just by reading about a player he knows nothing about,"
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"I was so proud of myself when I found an error in a Morphy game,"
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"and now someone's done it to me."
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"Stop thinking about what might have happened in the past,"
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"[whispering] So stupid!"
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"[exhales]"
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"[pills clattering]"
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"Pawn to bishop four, right?"
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"-Yes. -[camera shutter clicks]"
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"[Benny clears throat]"
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"-[exhales softly] -[pensive music playing]"
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"[sighs]"
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"I thought he could hear my heart beating, and know how panicked I was."
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"But he took the piece just as I planned."
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"Benny had two draws, so a draw would give me the title."
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"I wanted to hammer his weaknesses."
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"even though I didn't play the way he thought I should."
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"Then, he captured my center pawn, my protected pawn,"
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"the pawn that had held his queen to her corner for most of the game."
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"He forced an exchange of queens."
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"Oh."
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"Couldn't believe it."
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"And then I saw what it meant."
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"With the pawn gone, I was open to a rook-bishop mate,"
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"because of the bishop on the open diagonal."
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"but the protection wouldn't last,"
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"because his fucking, innocent-looking knight"
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"would block my king's escape."
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"The more I looked, the worse it all became."
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"It was brutal."
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"It's the kind of thing I did to other people."
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"I'd been thinking about doubled pawns."
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"A move that would stop him in his tracks, but there wasn't any."
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"I spent half an hour studying the board,"
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"I thought maybe I could trade my way out of it"
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"if he attacked too fast, but…"
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