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Bloomberg Live.com slash automation slash radio. Hello and welcome to Tracy Allaway.

So, Tracy Allaway.

So Tracy, I know that you don't play chess that we've already established but uh was this is the

show Queen's Gambit is that stream in Hong Kong okay so two things first of all

I do play chess I know how to play chess I just don't play it with any

regularity and I don't know like the names of the moves and the openings and all of that in the

same way that you do secondly I did watch Queen's Gambit and I thought it was excellent.

Did you, after watching it, get excited and like want to play chess and go online and have any interest because a lot of people

apparently did. Yeah I heard that so my problem with chess has always been that I'm

just not very good at it and I'm not motivated to get better. So when I watch something like

Queen's Gambit I actually find it demotivating because I think I'll just never be

as good as these people so why bother? But yes I heard that it set off a huge wave of interest in chess over well in the states primarily

Yeah, no it has been pretty wild. I was I mean I've played chess all my life but very off and on like I'll go through these

phases where I'll play a lot and get addicted and then I realize I'm playing too much

and I won't play for two years, let I start playing again.

So I was among the people who, after watching it,

started playing a bunch again.

And now, like what I'm like getting makeup done

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