ST. LOUIS — Long before The Queen’s Gambit captivated Netflix audiences around the world, it was a 1983 novel written by Walter Tevis — a story as much about struggle and redemption as it is about ...
In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at the Moscow Invitational. The next day she impulsively skips her flight ...
In ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ chess doubles as a game of life for protagonist Beth Harmon. Netflix If this use of chess to represent life feels familiar, it is largely thanks to the medieval world. As I ...
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