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Diana Lanni, a New York chess player contemporary with Tevis who represented the United States at the 1982 Chess Olympiad in Lucerne, suggested she was at least in part the inspiration for the Beth Harmon character, and that her friend grandmaster Larry Kaufman was the inspiration for the book's Harry Beltik character.
The Queen's Gambit follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy, Elizabeth Harmon, during her quest to become an elite chess player while struggling with emotional problems, drugs and alcohol dependency. The title of the series refers to a chess opening of the same name.
Ledger, himself a highly rated chess player, was due to play a supporting role as well, until his untimely death. [6] Bruce Pandolfini, a US chess master, consulted on the chess positions prior to the book's publication, and was the one who suggested the book's final title after the chess opening called "Queen's Gambit".
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The first documented chess game played with the modern queen and bishop moves; the moves were described in the poem Scachs d'amor. [1] 1623: Greco–NN, London 1623.
William Gerard (Bill) Robertie (born July 9, 1946, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) is a backgammon, chess, and poker player, author and teacher. He is one of several (6 as of 2022) backgammon players to have won the World Backgammon Championship twice (in 1983 and in 1987).
It was a runner-up for the magazine's Strategy Game of the Year award in June 1994, losing to Master of Orion. The editors called Kasparov's Gambit "beautifully crafted", a "great teacher" and "a chess game for the 'rest of us.'" [15] It holds the 145th place in Computer Gaming World ' s 1996 list of 150 Best Games of All Time. [16]
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