At first I thought this was based off a real person, and I had some respect for it. But as I looked up the real history of women and Chess, I found that there is a Women's League because although men play better, but the Chess world does everything they can to have women participate. Even the top rated women players perform abysmally when they actually play highest rated grandmasters. This is all fiction. Not just the characters, but the attitude! There is no condescending attitude in the chess world! Just the opposite. The chess world treats women players with great respect even though they don't have so much skill. The message of this show is simply ugly. It suggests that women are being held back, which is simply a lie.

TO EVERYONE AMAZED THAT A SERIES ABOUT CHESS CAN BE MADE EXCITING; I have your answer. This has nothing to do with Chess. Its not only inaccurate about the history of Chess, or the way Chess is played, its 100% wrong about how people in the Chess world feel and act.

Now I know its fiction, and I am not supposed to expect accuracy, but I still feel like I have been lied to. Because if everything about this show is 100% inaccurate, including the way women chess players are treated, then what really is the point of this show? Its a show of lies. Thats how I feel about it.