Netflix's 'Queen of Chess' highlights Judit Polgar, omits Jewishness
Watching Queen of Chess, Rory Kennedy’s Netflix documentary about the top-ranked woman chess player and her long contest with world champion Garry Kasparov, I was reminded — of all things — of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It comes down to one moment. In a montage in the 2018 superhero cartoon, we briefly see Peter Parker’s... The post Netflix’s ‘Queen of Chess’ tracks the rise of Judit Polgar — but leaves her Jewishness out of it appeared first on The Forward.