In the past I’ve learned things that I always wanted to but never had the time. People are locked up at home with nothing to do except learn and upskill. An administration error “by the grown ups” that cost the team our big day out. Unfortunately, I was also overage by a few months. So handy in fact that I was part of the Clara team who qualified for the Under 14 All Ireland draughts finals in Mosney back in the day. When I was younger I was pretty handy at draughts. When it comes to trying to spin a positive, nothing beats an upskill.Ĭhess is one of those things that I’ve personally always wanted to learn. I’ve experienced both and that’s probably most peoples’ experience. Either you let it get to you or you try and spin a positive out of it. When you’re locked up you’ve got two choices. First of all, people have been locked up quite a bit this year. What The Interest In Learning How To Play Chess? What I’m here to talk about today is the fact that this has stoked interest in learning how to play chess. It’s the first new show in a while I’ve heard several separate conversations, even in isolation, recommending and I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen so far. But I can tell you the show has been trending at the top of Ireland’s Netflix charts for days straight. Now, I’ve only watched the first episode so I can’t go any further into The Queen’s Gambit. The result is a genius chess player suffering with addiction and emotional problems. Here she learns how to play chess but she is also kept neutralised with tranquilisers. Her parents killed in a car crash, she is reared in an orphanage. While on a quest to become the world’s best chess player, she battles everything life throws at her. Recently released, The Queen’s Gambit is a fictional series about a child chess prodigy. As is so often the case, the cause of this interest is Netflix. The Queen’s Gambit On Netflixįirst of all let’s address why there’s a sudden surge in people learning how to play chess online. So, being a tech writer, I see it as my job to tell you why this is happening, but also to give you some ways to learn chess online. Using this tool, I can see that there’s a tonne of people searching for terms like “how to play chess” or “learn to play chess by yourself”. Google has a tool that shows trends and they’ve quite cleverly called it Google Trends. I use Google just like most of the internet world to find what I’m looking for. Writing and, dare I say journalism, isn’t all that hard sometimes.

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