After much analysis on the Netflix series, Lady’s Gambit, Chess experts say that this sport makes people who play it more sensual and captivates viewers with the focus, strategist and intelligence of the participants.
Whenever a series becomes popular due to its theme, it usually creates a trend in real life. So chess has helped people discover how interesting and fascinating this sport can be.
The sensuality of chess
For the best chess player in the UK, Jovanka HouskaIt can be sexy because it concentrates a climate of tension, emotion and reading the other person that can generate a very high climax.
So he wrote in his book Mating game, who talks about a bisexual chess player and through this character explains the eroticism of the game. Although he intensifies this theme for a narrative problem, the truth is that the ideas were derived from his professional experience.
??Chess is sexy. Many of the best players in the world are currently under 30 and thousands of them are bold and beautiful women and attracted to challenge to prove that they are as good as men, and better yet, in a game that has so far been predominantly male? said the British women’s chess champion in a column in the Telegraph.
And it followed: “In many other sports you can afford to spend a few hours sitting a few meters from your opponents and, if you are attracted to them, change eye contact as you try to beat them? “.
Houska explained that this eroticism in chess, which he can analyze in the Queen’s Gambit, he used to his advantage during his games: “I don’t see anything unethical in making me look as good as I can before a big game against a male player. If I can distract him and keep him from making the best move, well, it’s part of the competitive fight.??