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   Is the Queen's Gambit a true story?

   • For more ways to live your best life plus all things Oprah, sign up for our newsletter! Elena Nicolaou is the former culture editor at Oprah Daily. The Queen's Gambit is not a true story, and Beth Harmon is fictional—but she's inspired by real life people, including Bobby Fischer and author Walter Tevis.

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   Was Bobby Fischer a 'queen's Gambit' based on a true story?

   • Bobby Fischer, pictured here during a 1970 game against Boris Spassky, served as an inspiration for The Queen’s Gambit as both a novel and limited series.

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   Is The Queen's Gambit on Netflix?

   • The Queen's Gambit is streaming now on Netflix. Revealing the inspiration behind new Netflix series The Queen's Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon.

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   Who inspired Tevis to write the Queen's Gambit?

   • In the acknowledgements of The Queen's Gambit, Tevis wrote that he was inspired by Grandmasters Robert Fischer, Boris Spassky, and Anatoly Karpov, all of whom were active in the chess scene in the '60s, when writing the novel. Notably, those figures don't appear in the book or t he show—because they're incorporated into the fictional characters.

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   Can I unsubscribe from 'The Queen's Gambit'?

   • You can unsubscribe at any time. The Queen's Gambit is based on a book. It is an adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1983 novel of the same name. Scott Frank wrote the screenplay.

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   Will 'the Queen's Gambit' be adapted?

   • Allan Scott, who has owned the film rights to The Queen's Gambit since 1992 and was working with Ledger on the latter version's screenplay (which would've starred Elliot Page in the lead role), finally achieved his goal of adapting the novel as co-creator and executive producer of the 2020 series.

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   Feb 22, 2021 · Is Netflix's 'The Queen's Gambit' based on a true story? Not entirely. Learn more about the inspiration behind chess player Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the 2020 series and what is true...

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   Nov 23, 2020 · The Queen's Gambit is not a true story, and Beth Harmon is fictional—but she's inspired by real life people, including Bobby Fischer and author Walter Tevis.

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   Dec 19, 2020 · 'The Queen's Gambit,' a Netflix series starring Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon, is based on Walter Tevis' 1983 novel. How true is it?

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   Oct 29, 2020 · Is The Queen's Gambit based on a book? It is indeed - the series is an adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1983 book of the novel name, with Scott Frank having written the screenplay.

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   Feb 24, 2021 · The Queen’s Gambit has all the makings of a true story—a scrappy, once-in-a-generation prodigy, a meteoric rise from orphanage rags to designer riches, a globe-trotting historical setting,...

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   Nov 11, 2020 · Created for the small screen by two-time Academy Award nominee Scott Frank, The Queen’s Gambit is an adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 book of the same name – but how much of it is true?

9. www.townandcountrymag.com › leisure › arts-andIs <em>The Queen’s Gambit</em> Based on a True Story?

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   Oct 23, 2020 · But that doesn’t mean that everything you see on the series is entirely imaginary. What's real in the world of The Queen's Gambit? We found out. Beth Harmon is a fictional character.