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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.
1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 has acquired several names over the years, none of which are universally used. The earliest known appearance in print was in the Dubuque Chess Journal in May 1875, where it was dubbed the Kentucky Opening, [2] perhaps in reference to a game played in Danville, Kentucky, which was published in the August issue of the same magazine. [8]
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.
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 ...
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1. d4 d5 2. c4 Bf5!? The Baltic is an unusual variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD). In most defenses to the QGD, Black has difficulties developing his queen bishop. This opening takes a radical approach to the problem by bringing out the queen bishop immediately, but exposes it to the latent threat of e2-e4, for example 3. cxd5 Qxd5 ...
Steinitz Variation in the Queen's Gambit Accepted: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 cxd4; Steinitz Countergambit in the Queen's Pawn Game: 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 c5; Steinitz Defence to the Ruy Lopez: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6; Steinitz Defence Deferred to the Ruy Lopez: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 d6; Steinitz Defence Doubly ...
[1] This example uses algebraic notation . In chess , a king walk , also known as a king march , steel king , or wandering king ( Dutch : wandelkoning , literally "wanderking"), is a maneuver where the king travels a large distance to a different part of the board in the middlegame or opening .