Anya Taylor Joy is becoming an actress that we see more and more often in films and series, and whose acting is praised by ...

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 odds are stacked against Beth Harmon. But her fortunes begin to change as adults begin to notice her extraordinary ability to play chess. As a game of high-speed strategy and intelligence ...

The Netflix series – all about chess prodigy Beth Harmon – has astounded viewers ... Tevis was born in San Francisco in 1928, and learned to play chess at the age of seven.

Explaining the game, Perkins added ... about an orphaned chess prodigy named Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) - and took nearly 30 years to get the green light to be made in Hollywood.