Caitlin Reid mastered the board game as a kid in a journey that echoes that of Anya Taylor-Joy’s fictional character Beth Harmon in the Global Netflix hit. 4 Caitlin Reid, from Paisley, is ...

Sports: Hailing from UP, where chess is still gaining prominence, Vantika has already left significant mark on the sport, proving that talent knows no regional boundaries ...

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 ...

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

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.

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The series follows Beth Harmon (Furiosa‘s Anya Taylor-Joy), a Kentucky orphan who discovers an aptitude for chess when she sneaks away from choir practices to play with the orphanage’s custodian.

Based on the book of the same name by Walter Tevis, it stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, a chess prodigy who rises ... of the concept — a game show with mortal stakes. Released during ...

Squid Game season 2 is confirmed, and we can't wait. Believe it or not, chess is en vogue once more. In The Queen's Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy (Emma) stars as Beth Harmon, a prodigious master of the ...

Orphaned at the tender age of nine, prodigious introvert Beth Harmon discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. But child stardom comes at a price.

Elizabeth “Beth” Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) is a rebellious girl with an unusual gift: she is a master at chess and can beat just about anyone. Although this gift is mostly overlooked due to her ...