I've only seen ep 1 so far, so perhaps this is explained further in, but so far I can't get my head around how someone would play better chess on tranquilizers, which depress the nervous system, rather than without them?
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I think those helped me out. I traveled to a different state and the way the doctor prescribed them and the way the pharmacy was refilling them was different from what I was used to(fuckers wouldn't give me refills) and it was a huge f-ing hassle so I decided to get off of them.
Thanks beavis.
I also found this https://screenrant.com/queens-gambit-drugs-pills-beth-tranquilizers-explained/ which explains that there is no real life tranquilizer called "xanzolam" (which it's referred to later in the series) but Newseek suggests the fictional tranquilizer is likely inspired by Librium, which is closely-related to Valium.
It goes on to say "In the novel, her initial use is described not as hallucinatory but a sedative: "It loosened something deep in her stomach and helped her doze away the tense hours in the orphanage." And this makes sense, as her friend there advises her only to use them at night.
Unfortunately none of this goes any further to answering my question, since a sedative would be more likely to suppress the heightened mental acuity that's required for chess.
I can understand (though not codone, of course) why they'd have given sedatives to the girls there. But I'd have thought that it would be far more likely that a stimulant would aid mental acuity, rather than a depressant?
It was different in the book. She used them to get to sleep at night in the orphanage; still got hooked on them. She continued to use them as a teenager after she was adopted. She avoided taking them prior to a chess game though.
In the film she used the pills to help eliminate distractions while she played.
The book did it better.
Thanks @Ranb, sounds like they really cocked it up in the TV series, as the way you describe it, the book actually made sense.
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