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  1. ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ Starring a Magnetic Anya Taylor-Joy, Is a Shrewd Study of Genius: TV Review ... In order to be a truly great chess player — not just a good one, but one of the greats ...

  2. Netflix. Release. October 23, 2020. (2020-10-23) 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 ...

  3. Nov 13, 2020 · By Rachel Syme. “The Queen’s Gambit,” starring Anya Taylor-Joy, finds an unlikely synergy between the heady interiority of chess and the sensual realm of style. Photograph by Phil Bray ...

  4. The Queen's Gambit: Created by Scott Frank, Allan Scott. With Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp, Marcin Dorocinski. Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA.

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  5. Nov 3, 2020 · In the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the character Benny Watts walks up to Beth Harmon, the show’s heroine, at the start of the 1967 United States Chess Championship. The location ...

  6. Dec 6, 2020 · What does the show get wrong about chess? According to chess master Irina Berezina, The Queen's Gambit does an impressively accurate job of depicting chess games. But there's one thing it takes ...

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  8. Nov 6, 2020 · Now Scott Frank’s Netflix ‘limited series’ adapts Tevis’s 1983 novel about a female chess grand master. In an apt fusion of previous screen Tevis protagonists, the huge-eyed Anya Taylor-Joy is at once as obsessive and savant-like a game-player as Paul Newman’s Fast Eddie Felton in The Hustler and as alien-seeming and lost on Earth as David Bowie’s Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man ...