[Hwan Cho] In this New York Times article, it discusses Jessica Lauser, a three-time U.S. blind chess champion. Her chess skills far outweigh even average non-blind chess players and have some striking similarities with Beth Harmon in the Netflix series, “The Queen’s Gambit.”
Have you heard this story before? Girl has rough start in life, discovers chess. She becomes a United States champion. She studies Russian. And now she needs to find a way to get to Russia to play chess, because she can’t afford it. No, I’m not talking about Beth […]
