![]() He wants her to play everyone simultaneously. Mr Ganz wants Beth to join a chess club at a High School every Thursday. An invitation to the chess clubĮpisode 1 shows how Beth became a local sensation very quickly as word spread quickly of her chess-playing abilities. Beth then plays both men at once with two separate boards and she beats them both convincingly. Mr Ganz asks Beth where she plays and she tells him she plays in her head. Mr Shaibel introduces Beth to Mr Ganz from the chess club to play a game. Afterwards, Jolene tells Beth what a c*ck is. When he says no, she calls him a “c*cksucker”. ![]() ![]() The next day, Beth loses her Queen and Mr Shaibel tells her to resign the game, but she wants to continue. Mr Shaibel beats her quickly with the “Scholar’s Mate”. Beth demonstrates how much she’s learnt already so the man offers her a game. He tells her that “Girls do not play chess”. Her first game of chessĪnd finally, Episode 1 shows Beth’s first taste of chess that ignites the series.īeth tries again with Mr Shaibel to discuss chess. Beth has also taken Jolene’s advice, to take vitamins at night. At night time, before she sleeps, she imagines the chessboard. She tries to speak to Mr Shaibel the next day but he is not interested in showing her chess. She sees a man named Mr Shaibel playing chess on his own and he’s intrigued. Beth’s first look at chessĭuring class at the orphanage, Beth is sent to the basement to deal with the erasers. Paul tells Alice that he’s sick of running after her and he drives away. The father questions how they both live in a trailer. At night in bed, the young Beth remembers when her father Paul tried to return he asks her mother Alice if he can see Beth. The opening chapter gives a hint that there’s a broken home involved in this character and there’s a sense that chess eventually becomes her escapism.īeth takes vitamins and afterwards, she struggles to walk around the orphanage (they are clearly not vitamins) - Jolene tells her she needs to wait until later to take the vitamins. Beth is introduced to Jolene - she’s asked what was the last thing her parents said before she died Beth has a brief flash of her mother saying, “Close your eyes”. There’s no report of what happened to her father. The young Beth is orphaned due to the death of her mother from the crash. Adjustment to the orphanageįrom here, “Openings” presents Beth’s younger life and how she became accustomed to chess and a reckless life. Flashbacks show that a young Beth survived a car crash. The paparazzi are flashing at her and she sits down to play a game of chess against a man with a room full of people. After swigging alcohol, she rushes downstairs from her hotel room. She’s in a rush and she fell asleep in the bath. We recapped every episode - check out the archive.Įpisode 1 opens with Beth waking up in Paris, 1967.
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