A CHESS champion ... s fictional character Beth Harmon in the Global Netflix hit. Caitlin was taught how to play chess by her dad Billy. But the Paisley-born child prodigy, dubbed The Smiling ...

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The series was based on Walter Tevis' 1983 novel of the same name, about an orphaned chess prodigy named Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) - and took nearly 30 years to get the green light to be made ...

Anya Taylor-Joy dropped out of school at the age of 16 to act, and made her film debut in The Witch (2015). She went on to gain more recognition for her roles in Glass (2019), Thoroughbreds (2017 ...

Period dramas are delightful, presenting the joys and gloom of bygone eras in captivating ways. Beautiful gowns? Newsboy caps ...

Its coming-of-age story about Beth Harmon, a 1950s chess prodigy, is ultimately a “tribute to brainy women,” according to the original novel’s writer, Walter Tevis. What makes it so intrigui ...

Anya Taylor-Joy captivates as morally complex characters, from survivors to manipulators, by blending vulnerability with ...

Based on the book of the same name by Walter Tevis, it stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy who rises in the male-dominated world while also battling her own addictions.

However, it was Taylor-Joy’s stunning performance as chess prodigy Beth Harmon in Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ that propelled her to international fame and earned her numerous accolades, including a ...

Demis Hassabis was a child chess prodigy, achieving master status in his teens. In a lecture at the University of Cambridge, the Google Deepmind CEO said chess led him to his first experience with AI.

Barua has been coaching Anish at his Dhanuka Dhunseri Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy in south Kolkata, over 20km away from Kaikhali in the city’s northern suburbs where the prodigy resides with ...