TV Series· 2020· Drama
The Queen's Gambit: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Scott Frank's miniseries adapts Walter Tevis's novel about Beth Harmon, an orphan who learns chess from a janitor in a Kentucky orphanage and rises to challenge the Soviet champions, while fighting her dependence on tranquillisers and alcohol. It follows the book closely, down to its final games in Moscow.
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Real world
The series follows the orphan Beth Harmon's rise through competitive chess to a match against the Soviet champion.