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The Queen's Gambit won eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, becoming the first show on a streaming service to win the category. [5] The series also won two Golden Globe Awards : Best Limited Series or Television Film and Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film for Taylor-Joy.
Anya Taylor-Joy may be the star of Netflix’s wildly successful limited series, The Queen’s Gambit, playing Beth Harmon in the coming-of-age drama about a chess prodigy, but it’s director ...
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 Accepted is the third most popular option on Black's second move, after 2...e6 (the Queen's Gambit Declined) and 2...c6 (the Slav Defense). The Queen's Gambit is not considered a true gambit , in contrast to the King's Gambit , because the pawn is either regained, or can only be held unprofitably by Black.
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 ...
Queen's Fianchetto Opening Baby Orangutan [ 1 ] [colloq.] The Nimzowitsch–Larsen Attack (also known as the Nimzo–Larsen Attack , Larsen's Opening and Queen's Fianchetto Opening ) is a chess opening typically starting with the move: 1. b3 but sometimes introduced by the move order 1.Nf3 and then 2.b3.
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The Albin Countergambit is a chess opening that begins with the moves: . 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5. and the usual continuation is: 3. dxe5 d4. The opening is a gambit and an uncommon response to the Queen's Gambit.