You don’t need to like nor know anything about Chess to enjoy this TV series.

It’s 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

On October 28, 2020, it was the most watched series of the day on Netflix.

The Queen’s Gambit is an American drama television miniseries based on Walter Tevis‘s 1983 novel of the same name.

I read the book, as well. Excellent.

Though written long ago, it still feels contemporary.

Themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism.

Bruce Pandolfini, a US chess master, consulted on the chess positions prior to the book’s publication.

… a fictional story that follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy named Beth Harmon from the age of eight to twenty-two during her quest to become the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional issues, with drug and alcohol dependency. The story begins in the mid-1950s and proceeds into the 1960s.

The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.
— Michael Ondaatje (cover of Vintage paperback edition, 2003)

All the acting is good in the TV show.

I probably enjoyed Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Benny Watts best.

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