The Queen's Gambit

First, Benny probably isn’t making as much money as Beth, whether by choice or not. Benny did write a book on chess, but the profits from his book are probably…

Yet, that very stability and unconditional love was hindering Beth’s overall character development, which was the driving force of the queen’s gambit. In short, the plot demanded that the stability…

In The Queen’s Gambitepisode 2, “Exchanges,” Beth overhears Allston and Alma arguing over him taking the car on a business trip, with him remarking “Remember what the doctor said. Some…

Alma struggled with substance abuse in The Queen’s Gambit. In addition to taking pills to stabilize her mood — likely because of her unresolved trauma stemming from her biological child’s…

Tragically, Beth enters her hotel room after loosing against Vasily Borgov, only to discover the reason her mother never showed up at the important match: Alma was dead. The Queen’s…

Alma Wheatley’s (Marielle Heller) death in The Queen’s Gambit was shocking, but not completely unexpected — and was a necessary event for Beth’s overall character development. The Netflix series The…

After all, chess was immensely popular in the USSR in the 1950s and ’60s, when upwards of seven or eight of the world’s top ten classically-rated players came from the…

Surprisingly, he also gave the production some pointers on topics he wasn’t initially brought in for. In Episode 4, “The Middle Game,” he suggested adding a scene in an elevator…

For the original 1983 book of the same name, author Walter Tevis used his own experience and sought out the help of experts like Pandolfini to make sure the depictions…