Thread by @SlavaMalamud

I am on Episode 4 of "The Queen's Gambit", and here are my takeaways:
1) It is very, very good
2) Borgov in not a Russian name. It is not even an approximation of one. Please, don't think that sticking an "ov" to the end of a random collection of sounds makes it Russian...

By the same token, we can assume that sticking a "son" to anything will make it an American name. Like "Eliktrifikatsyason." Or "Otmorozilyaytsason." Hi, I am Otmorozilyaytsason. Dzheyms Otmorozilyaytsason, a famous American secret agent. It's a very common name in Yankee land.

Borgov is a name of an alien race whose members are devoid of individuality and are bred to think and act as a collect.... AAaaaaaaaahhh! You sly devils you! I see what you did there!

Also, this scene is funny. The stoner beatnik is clumsily trying to compliment Beth's figure by saying:
"Mne nravitsya tvoya figura."
But Beth - oh Beth! - Beth is too brilliant for his stupid pickup tactics. She deftly points out the error of his phraseology. Yeah, except...

Except, in colloquial Russian, the words for "shape" and "figure" are the same - "figura", so the beatnik's phrase was absolutely perfect. Even his accent is slightly better than Beth's.
This gal is a bit too arrogant, if you ask me. No wonder the poor dude couldn't perform later

OK, back to Mrs. Wheatley's in no way self-destructive and extremely sad Mexican adventures. Will see you soon.

PS. Actually, considering how about 99% of the USSR's best chess players at the time were Jews, sticking a "son" at the end of a random collection of sounds would have made for a more convincing Soviet Grandmaster name.

Oh nice! A Soviet nerd makes an appearance, and not only does he have a totally Bulgarian last name, he mispronounces his first name, too!
But he is just such a perfect Vynnitsya Glorious Felix Dzierzinski Chess Club "botanik" (dweeb), I can't even!
I love you Georgiy!

I want to say he also mispronounced Borgov, but since Borgov is a fake name, you can pronounce it any way you want, I guess. Probably with a silent B and a guttural r, if you wanted to.

"Borgov's" two companions speak perfect, native Russian. "Borgov" himself speaks laboriously, with all the elegance of a severely constipated wombat. But the dialogue is very well written.