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Mar 20, 2024 · “Decades before The Queen’s Gambit”—the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis and hit 2020 Netflix series—“Lisa Lane showed the world that chess can be glamorous and that women can be as ...
- Stefan Fatsis
- Turbulent Teenage Years
- Time For Chess!
- Women’s World Champion
- A First Super-Tournament
- Praise from Alekhine
- A Foreigner in Britain
Vera Menchik’s story was far from ordinary from the beginning. She was born on February 16, 1906 in Moscow. Her father was Czech and her mother English, although only partially, as British newspapers dutifully pointed out. Both of her parents worked in Russia—her father as a manager of estates for wealthy families, her mother as a governess. Vera g...
It was in England that Menchik took up chess in earnest. As she explained, part of the reason was her poor command of the language: In 1924, Vera joined Hastings Chess Club and put in a lot of work into studying chess. She also started taking private lessons. Her first chess coach was a local player, John A.J. Drewitt, who taught her the closed ope...
By this point, Menchik had already established herself as the strongest woman player in the world. She won the inaugural Women’s World Chess Championship that took place in July 1927 in London, on the sidelines of the first Chess Olympiad, with the impressive score +10=1. The Women’s Championship was a relatively low-key affair, and only in Novembe...
Carlsbad 1929 featured an incredibly strong line-up: Capablanca, Rubinstein, Euwe, Nimzowitsch, Bogoljubov, Tartakower, Marshall, etc. Of the strongest players in the world, only Alekhine and Lasker were absent. The tournament turned out to be the highlight of Aron Nimzovich’s career—he finished clear first with an impressive 15/21. It was a first ...
In the end, Menchik only scored three points from 21 games at Carlsbad, but her performance was still regarded a success. Alexander Alekhine, who published a series of articles on the tournament in The New York Times, wrote the following at the end of round 15: The World Champion’s call was heard, and Menchik continued to receive invitations to men...
Despite living in England for many years, Menchik was considered a foreigner until the late 1930s and was thus ineligible for the national competitions. In fact, Menchik’s citizenship brought her complications for most of her life. When she won her first World Championship title, the British newspapers referred to her as a “Russian refugee.” In the...
- Andrey Terekhov
Jan 18, 2022 · She is the fictional star of The Queen’s Gambit, the hit Netflix series based on a 1983 novel by Walter Tevis that has chess aficionados recalling, in Chess.com’s words, “The real-life Beth...
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Nov 22, 2020 · Anya Taylor-Joy plays Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit. Netflix. The year: 2015. The place: Sydney, Australia. Irina Berezina stands at the front of the classroom, facing 25 boarding school...
In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
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Oct 29, 2020 · Netflix miniseries 'The Queen's Gambit,' starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Harry Melling, boasts an all-star cast that you've definitely seen before.
