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The Queen's Gambit follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy, Elizabeth Harmon, during her quest to become an elite chess player while struggling with emotional problems, drugs and alcohol dependency. The title of the series refers to a chess opening of the same name. The story is set in the mid-1950s and 1960s.
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The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis,...
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Chloe Pirrie (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish actress....
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The Queen's Gambit is the chess opening that starts with the...
- Bill Camp
Bill Camp (born 1963/1964) [1] is an American actor. He has...
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The main tournament incorporates the British Championship, the English Chess Championships and the British Women's Chess Championship so it is possible, although it has never happened, for one player to win all three titles in the same competition.
YearCityMen's ChampionWomen's Champion2024Trisha KanyamaralaLan Yao202320222021The 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. But child stardom comes at a price.
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- The Chess Player
- Critical Thinking
- Brooklyn Castle
- A Little Game
- The Coldest Game
- Knights of The South Bronx
- Life of A King
- Queen to Play
- Magnus
This comedy takes a look at the 1980s time period when the internet and computers first began to emerge as it follows a group of computer geniuses who attempt to program a computer to be able to defeat a human player in a chess match. The movie takes a look at outsider geniuses trying to figure out the best way to play the game of chess, making it ...
The Chess Player centers on a champion chess player (Marc Clotet) from Spain who flees the country with his wife in the 1930s to avoid a Spanish Civil War. The couple moves to Paris where he's accused of being a spy by the ruling Nazi party and subsequently arrested. He's sent to a prison run by Nazis and finds that one of the officers is an aspiri...
Critical Thinking is a drama focused on chess and based on a true story. The movie follows an inspirational teacher (John Leguizamo) who helps bring his high school's chess team to success and even further to compete in the United States Chess Championship. The Queen's Gambit shows a relationship between a coach and student as Beth learns how to pl...
This documentary centers on a New York school that has a low funding budget and is experiencing even further budget cuts despite the thriving chess team at the school. These budget cuts threaten the champion chess team even though they've proven themselves over and over again. Beth beginsThe Queen's Gambit at an orphanage and has all the odds stack...
A Little Game centers on a young girl (Makenna Ballard) who is struggling to cope with the death of her grandmother and is having a difficult time making friends at her new school. She finds solace in chess and also finds that she's a natural at the game. Her beginning and her journey are similar to Beth's as she meets a mentor willing to teach her...
The Coldest Game is a Cold-War thrillerin which the savvy gamesmanship on the chessboard serves as a major metaphor for strategic war games. The U.S./Polish film follows Joshua Mansky (Bill Pullman), a beleaguered alcoholic math teacher who is drafted by the U.S. government to play a game of chess against a Soviet opponent. Behind the scenes, a par...
Although it was made for television, the true story of Knights of the South Bronxis as uplifting as they come. Ted Danson stars Richard Mason, a character based on the real-life schoolteacher David MacEnulty, who taught underprivileged children in the South Bronx how to play competitive-level chess. RELATED: Ted Danson: 10 Best Roles, According To ...
In yet another inspiring true story, Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as Eugene Brown in Life of a King. Brown is a former-felon who completely changes his life around by creating a chess club for urban youths in Washington, D.C. He learns how to play and master chess while in prison from a man known as The Chess Man, who gives Brown a wooden chess piece upo...
In the French/German productionQueen to Play, an intimate bond is forged between a French housemaid and an American ex-patriot over their mutual love of chess. Written and directed by Caroline Bottaro from the Bertina Henrichs novel, the story revolves around Helene (Sandrine Bonnaire), a charming housemaid who takes a sudden interest in the game o...
Magnus Carlsen is currently the world's top-ranked chess grandmaster. In 2016, a fascinating documentary on the prodigy's rise to fame is chronicled. Magnus turned pro at age 13 and won the world championship in chess in 2013 at the age of 22. RELATED: 10 Best Netflix Documentaries Right Now, According To IMDB The Norwegian grandmaster's early life...
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Supporting this great event is The John Robinson Youth Chess Trust. The Trust (an independent registered charity) was founded in 2006 to support junior chess in England. The Trust has generously supported the British since 2006 and in 2024 awarded the English Chess Federation £10,000 to facilitate the promotion and organising of the event and to provide junior coaching during the championship.
Oct 2, 2021 · BRITBASE - British Chess Game Archive Tournament: 107th British Championship • all 85 games of the Championship plus all 390 games from subsidiary events Venue: University of Hull / Milton Keynes • Dates: 2-10 & 14-17 October 2021 • Download PGN
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1. Pawn Sacrifice (2014) PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, History. 7. Rate. 65 Metascore. Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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