# Queen's Gambit on Netflix

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**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/queens-gambit-on-netflix/924900 "2020-11-06T16:11:24Z")\
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I enjoyed the miniseries very much, and am now listening to an audiobook of the Walter Tevis novel. It’s pretty good. (She’s still in the orphanage at this point, learning chess from the janitor; he just gave her a book of opening moves).

> **[The Queen's Gambit (novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Gambit_(novel))**
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> The Queen's Gambit is a 1983 American novel by Walter Tevis, exploring the life of fictional female chess prodigy Beth Harmon. A bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story, it covers themes of adoption, feminism, chess, drug addiction and alcoholism. The book was adapted for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name.
> The novel's epigraph is "The Long-Legged Fly" by W. B. Yeats. This poem highlights one of the novel's main concerns: the inner work...

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