When The Queen’s Gambit landed on Netflix in October 2020, it felt like an overnight surprise. A seven-episode limited series about competitive chess, set in the 1950s and 1960s, with long stretches ...

Noah Adams speaks with author Walter Tevis about his novel The Queen's Gambit. Tevis tells the story of orphan Beth Harmon, her struggle with addiction and her triumph as a female chess prodigy. This ...

"The Queen's Gambit" might have ended with a decisive checkmate. But for Anya Taylor-Joy, who played Beth Harmon, a young woman growing up in an orphanage who battles drug and alcohol addiction to ...

And know the place for the first time. --- TS Elliot The Queen's Gambit Source: Netflix Beth is 9 when she comes upon Mr. Shaibel in the basement of the orphanage, her “home” after her mother, in ...