Chess gets glamorous in ‘The Queens Gambit’, and women take to the boards – Sydney Morning Herald

Just like Beth, as a 15-year-old, Katrin played and beat multiple men at once in the highly-complex exercise of “simultaneous” exhibition chess. She was even enlisted as a child to help promote chess by playing rows of men who sat at tables set up in Australian shopping centres.
Katrin Aladjova, then 15, playing men in a ‘simultaneous’ chess game in a Brisbane shopping centre to help promote chess in the 1980s.
She sat among clouds of smoke like Beth did, because “when I grew up in the ’70s and…

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