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Netflix's show, The Queen's Gambit, takes place in the 1960s. Towards the end of the show it is portrayed that Russia has a great involvement in the chess community to prove its intelligence(actual mental/brain intelligence) over the U.S. How accurate is this?

by /u/McDonaldsnapkin in /r/AskHistorians

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