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      • The Queen’s Gambit may be melodramatic, but when it comes to its captivating matches and star, it wins where it counts. Anya Taylor-Joy's performance is the high point of Netflix's surprisingly engaging (but often overwrought) chess drama The Queen's Gambit, a limited series based on the Walter Tevis novel.
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  2. 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 ...

  3. Nov 6, 2020 · The Queen’s Gambit is an intoxicating chess thriller. Anya Taylor-Joy’s alcoholic chess prodigy puts herself to the test in Scott Frank’s enthralling new Netflix series that proves again that the novels of Walter Tevis are fertile ground for adaptation.

  4. Oct 21, 2020 · Following the astonishing rise of an unusual chess prodigy, Netflix's new limited series is a welcome change of pace. In order to be a truly great chess player — not just a good one, but one...

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  5. 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.

  6. Just as it demystifies the structure of a chess match, The Queen’s Gambit also takes great care in dramatizing, in incredibly engaging fashion, the gameplay itself. The casual viewer won’t...

  7. The good news is that not only is chess superbly rendered, with a wide variety of grandmaster-level positions and situations, but the story and production of “The Queen’s Gambit” is exceptional on all levels. Simply put: this is easily the best chess movie or series to ever grace the screens.

  8. Anya Taylor-Joy's performance is the high point of Netflix's surprisingly engaging (but often overwrought) chess drama The Queen's Gambit, a limited series based on the Walter Tevis novel.

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