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Something in her life was solved: she knew about the chess pieces and how they moved and captured, and she knew how to make herself feel good in the stomach and in the tense joints of her arms and legs,
Smart girl
She wanted to win more than she had ever wanted anything. She said a word she had not said since her mother died: “Please.”
Motivated to win
All of the tension was gone, and what Beth felt inside herself was as wonderful as anything she had ever felt in her life.
Winning makes Bdtgh feel alive
He looked down at her. “No. Not now.” This infuriated her. She understood well enough that a person likes to keep his secrets. She kept hers. Nevertheless,
Seems unlikely
She glared at him across the board, feeling that if she had had a knife, she could have stabbed him
Seems over the top emotionally
“The Queen’s Gambit.”
“Eight years old.”
Drugs and addiction at 8 years old?
rococo
japonica
And, deeper than that, she was aware of the complicity of the orphanage that had fed her and all the others on pills that would make them less restless, easier to deal with.
Complicit
godless communism and
50s?
“I see that you will be thirteen in two months, Elizabeth,” Mrs. Deardorff said. “Yes, ma’am.” Beth was seated in the straight-backed chair in front of Mrs. Deardorff’s desk. Fergussen had come and taken her from study hall. It was eleven in the morning. She had not been in this office for over three years.
Quick passage of time
Evening in Paris and the other with Emeraude. “All right, dear,” Mrs. Wheatley said finally, “we’ll
Yes definitgly 60's i think
Capablanca,
Senator Kennedy’s picture
Yep 60's
shaft
fianchettoed
castled
feel the thick batch of paper between her thighs. She
Had a reaction to this description by male
chiffonier?
When he stepped toward her yesterday as she was leaving, some part of her had thought he would hit her.
13 hit her?
She washed her face for the third time that day, tightened her sanitary belt, combed her bangs and went back to the gymnasium.
Hmmmm
checked her sanitary napkin.
Really
Shillito’s—
In Cincinnati
and she was an outsider. She hated the feeling.
Emotional State
It was a new feeling for her, and it seemed to bind and restrict her as she had not been bound and restricted since the last time she sat in Mrs. Deardorff’s office.
Emotion
Cincinnati.
Setting Ohio
mirth.
rebozos,
Kentucky.
Kentuckyh setting
Her fear was as sharp as a toothache.
Interesting Comparison
feints and counterthreats in which it was a fixed necessity that she lose, like a game from one of the books where you knew the outcome and played it only to see how it happened.
Interesting
Librium?”
fianchettoed
The U.S. Championship
There were fourteen players, many of them grandmasters. She was the only woman.
Only wokmaN
gambit
Alekhine.”
benny
Needs caps
insouciance
klaxon
jerry-built.”
she herself was eighteen years old and the United States Champion at chess. She
Age
napoleon
wily,
Gibson,”
shuck
anathema
antimacassar
This was not the attack chess she had made her American reputation with; it was chamber-music chess, subtle and intricate.
A different Tmozphere in chess
