Beth Harmon & Borgov | Mirror Images ♖ The Queen's Gambit ♖ MV

Actress Anya Taylor-Joy
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If you're already in a fight, you want the first blow to be the last.
And you better be the one to throw it.
Few things are as mentally brutal as chess.
Attackers may sometimes regret bad moves,
but it is much worse to forever regret an opportunity you allowed to pass you by.
I resign.
I wasn't drunk.
Do I start now?
You wanna go on to the next one?
That's right.
I know I'm a good player, but now I'm up against people half my age.
I don't know how long I can keep winning.
I can fight against anyone, but time.
The move he made was so obvious, so unimaginative, so bureaucratic.
And the whole time, I'd look at his face, and there was no doubt, no weakness.
The Soviets are murderers. They eat Americans for breakfast over there.
I could beat Borgov with a little more work.
You can beat Borgov with a lot more work, years more work.
Borgov's not some Kentucky ex-champion like me.
He is a world champion who could have beaten both of us when he was ten.
What are you gonna do about Borgov?
I don't know.
What about Moscow?
Four Soviet chess players is a lot of Soviet chess players.
Murderers.
But you're the only American I can think of that might be able to do it.
Miss Harmon, do you feel good about the match with Grandmaster Borgov?
Very good.
At night, I stay in my room and study Mr. Borgov's old games.
Including the one against you in Mexico City?
I still beat him.
I do.
Elizabeth Harmon is proving to be the biggest attraction since the youth festival in 1957.
Some in Moscow are even calling her an ambassador.
Are you going to beat him?
I haven't made any mistakes so far.
Neither has he.
Now, the two of them can fight it out from here in their own ways.
Adjourned.
What do we need to do to help you beat Borgov?
Well, what I need are the pills, the booze, I need my mind cloudy to win.
I can't visualize the games without them.
Really? You think that's what brought you here?
I think that's what I'm used to.
Yeah, but you've been doing fine without all that.
It's your game.
