Canadian chess master Ross Siemms pleased with new interest in the game
As chess boards sell out everywhere thanks to The Queen’s Gambit, Siemms agreed to recap his days as a competitive player for Canada — years that overlap the era represented in the TV series. As with the series, his story is just as much about time and place as it is about chess. Siemms’ world travels involved sailing on the Queen Mary and flying on a four-engine Lockheed Super Constellation; he played the Russians in the thick of the Cold War and encountered them at the Munich Olympiad in 1958. He came of age in a world that would be unrecognizable to today’s youth, a time before th...
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