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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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