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 ...

I picked up Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit in the kind of used bookstore where the shelves are too full, the air smells ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAGOS – In the heart of Makoko, one of Africa’s largest slums, a 10-year-old boy with cerebral palsy defied all odds to become a chess champion, inspiring a nation and the world. Ferdinand ...

He said this has been driven in part by the popularity of The Queen's Gambit, a Netflix series about a fictional chess prodigy's quest to become the greatest chess player in the world, while ...

SAN ANTONIO — Brian Harman found the range with his iron shots and converted eight birdie putts Friday, none outside 12 feet, for a 6-under 66 that gave him a four-shot lead over Keith Mitchell going ...