American Chess University Series The Queens

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American Chess University Series The Queens

Netflix is resurrecting the classic chess prodigy archetype for its new miniseries The Queens Gambit, starring Anya Taylor-Joy as an amazing young player.

As her character, Beth Harmon, works to earn the title of Grandmaster, there are glimpses of inspiration drawn from a number of real-life chess masters, including the legendary Bobby Fischer.

The limited series adapts Walter Tevis 1983 novel of the same name.

In the authors note for the novel, Tevis mentions three of his chess heroes in particular Fischer, Boris Spassky, and Anatoly Karpov calling their play a source of delight to players like myself.

Of the trio Tevis named, Fischer is the one whom Harmon most obviously resembles.

Some reviewers, like Rolling Stone s Alan Sepinwall, have made that comparison, and its not hard to see why.

Both are 20th-century American chess prodigies who become champion competitors at a young age.

Netflix However, as Tevis states in his authors note, The Queens Gambit is a work of fiction.

While he did get some help from players in his research on the novel, Beth is a character of his creation.

In fact, he managed to put a little of himself in her, just as he did many of his other protagonists.

Walter Tevis was an underdog who beat the odds, his son, Will Tevis, wrote in the Stanford University blog The Book Haven.

The characters that he created Eddie Felson, Jerome Newton, and Beth Harmon all had an internal drive that launched them to overcome unbelievable odds, but still not live happily ever after.

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