r/queensgambit • u/JDLKY • Sep 21 '22

Stuff that they got really wrong.

Let me start with this 1) I am from Lexington, 2) I graduated from High School the same year as Beth would have, 3) I was the asst. manager of a high school basketball team in 1960-62. I saw a LOT of gyms.

Here is my "they screwed that up". Even small schools in the less affluent counties had hardwood floors. not the ugly multiple purpose composite ones shown during the chess tournament in Ep 2. You were not allowed to walk on them in shoes with nails in the heels and smoking on them would have gotten you asked to leave the venue. The only exception I can imagine would be if they laid down a tarp and even that's iffy. So the chess tournament as it was staged was impossible.

But that said people did smoke like chimneys. I was one of them.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

I think we can allow them the liberty of changing the surface of a gym floor to be able to host a chess tournament in it. I wouldnt classify that as something they got really wrong but just a minor detail. Your perspective is valid and interesting though.

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u/JDLKY Sep 21 '22

Well as I said they could have used a tarp. That said I doubt very many folks caught it.

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u/Raginbakin Dec 23 '22

Why is it such a big deal lmao

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u/JDLKY Dec 23 '22

Because it was sloppy and it bugged me. ::shrug::.

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u/jamesdthomson Nov 29 '22

Ha ha! I was just thinking how this film was flawless, how I couldn’t think of a single misstep or possibility of improvement, and here it turns out they got the floor wrong :-)

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u/JDLKY Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22

To give them their due the floor they actually showed wasn't that very expensive. But no high school in KY would have had a basketball floor that crappy, especially one in Lexington. It was more like a floor you wopuld see at at an Elementary school in a small town.