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The Queen s Gambit Is Based on the True Story of Several Chess Players Including the Book Author
You ve probably heard of a few of them. Feb 26, 2021
The “Queen’s Gambit” is one of the oldest opening moves recorded in the history of chess, dating back to the fifteenth century. It entails White moving its queen’s pawn to the middle of the board and then sacrificing its adjacent pawn on the next move. The “gambit” is to trade a piece for control of the board’s center. It s a risk with a potentially high reward. Walter Tevis chose the move as the title of his coming-of-age story now adapted into the Netflix series of the same name