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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.
Some outdoor scenes for The Queens Gambit were filmed for Netflix at this building, which stood in for the fictional Methuen Home, a girls' orphanage in Kentucky. [11] [12] [13] The article published in Israel explained how the Schloss became the orphanage in the TV series: [14]
Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit dominated Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings for the week of October 26-November 1, piling up nearly 1.9 million total minutes of viewing. Netflix said last week ...
The Queen’s Gambit Based on a novel of the same title, the show follows an orphaned mathematics prodigy as she ascends to the top level of a male-dominated pastime: chess.
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” centers on Beth Harmon, an orphan who discovers she has a preternatural ability to move the pieces around a chess board and dominate the competition. The novel ...
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, The Queen's Gambit.
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