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The Queen's Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama television miniseries based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis. The title refers to the "Queen's Gambit", a chess opening. The series was written and directed by Scott Frank, who created it with Allan Scott, who owns the rights to the book.
The Netflix series The Queen's Gambit and its story were influenced by Gaprindashvili's life. [21] The show erroneously described her as a Russian chess player who had never competed against men, [ 1 ] while in fact she had played against at least 59 men in 1968 alone (including 10 male grandmasters), and is actually from Georgia . [ 22 ]
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.
It’s here! Jena Rose is entering the race for song of the summer with her latest single, “Checkmate” — and the music video is giving off major Queen’s Gambit vibes. 5 Things to Know ...
A version of this story about “The Queen’s Gambit” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine.Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout ...
The public’s sudden interest in the cognitive board game was made popular solely thanks to the October-released Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, and it’s been such a hit that chess sets ...
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) was established in 1924 as the governing body of competitive chess. At the time, the term "grandmaster" was already being informally used to describe the world's leading chess players since the players competing in the Championship section of the Ostend 1907 chess tournament were referred to as "grandmasters" in reference to them all having previously ...
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