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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.
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.
We might not have a second season of The Queen's Gambit, but we do have The Queen's Gambit Chess to keep us occupied. In an announcement out of Netflix's 2023 Tudum event, the streaming site ...
Matthew Dennis Lewis is an American actor notable for appearing in the Netflix Western series Godless (2017) and chess prodigy series The Queen’s Gambit (2020). He appears with his twin brother Russell Dennis Lewis in several shows.
The Queen's Gambit Chess on Netflix Games is a big disappointment, with an aimless execution and technical issues. Read Digital Spy's review here. The Queen's Gambit Chess game on Netflix fails to ...
The mobile game was announced during Netflix's online Geeked Week, along with "Money Heist," "Shadow & Bone," "Nailed It!" and "Too Hot to Handle" app offerings. Netflix Launches Game Based on ...
The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
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 ...