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TODAY’S CHILD


              MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS ON THE


                                          CHESSBOARD



                     By Professor Kerstin Jordaan, Executive Director at the South African Mathematics Foundation


             The Netflix television series, The Queen’s Gambit, made chess popular again.

                 The narrative plays off in 1950 and tells the story of a young orphan girl
                                        and her unusual talent for chess.










































































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