The Queen’s Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. It was created for Netflix by Scott Frank and Allan Scott. Netflix released The Queen’s Gambit on October 23, 2020.

Anya Taylor-Joy got to live out her The Queen’s Gambit fantasy and talk all things chess with Judit Polgár, a world-renowned champion, who is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time.” Judit Polgár is a Hungarian chess player. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. Since September 2015, she has been inactive as a tournament player.

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The Queen’s Gambit follows the rise of chess prodigy and orphan Beth Harmon, played by Anya Taylor-Joy.

Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama The Queen’s Gambit is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius.

The story begins in Lexington, Kentucky, where a nine-year-old Beth, having lost her mother in a car crash, is taken to an orphanage where she is taught chess by the building’s custodian, Mr. Shaibel. As was common during the 1950s, the orphanage dispenses daily tranquilizer pills to the girls.

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