I am an avid chess player, not very good at it but still enjoy playing. When I watched the first episode, I was under the impression that this was a story about a true person and it is only fiction. I was very disappointed to find that out which took all the luster away form the show for me. I tried watching a second episode, but just didn't set well with me.

The female character should be a story about the real female person that did actually exist. "World women's chess champion Vera Menchik died in 1944 at the age of 38 during a German V2 bombing raid on the city of London. Her sister Olga also died from the bombing raid." This would have made a much better series than using a fictional person.

But instead Hollywood as created a female version of Bobby Fisher, and that is just stupid.