No, Beth Harmon Isn’t Based On A Real Person She Shares Similarities With Real Chess Champion Vera Menchik Anya Taylor-Joy's Beth Harmon may have inspired viewers, but she is not based on a real ...

Two decades after Beth Harmon took on the fictional Russian champion Vasily Borgov in Moscow, Polgar became the first woman to qualify for the Men’s Zonal World Chess Championship in 1986, when ...

In reality, a woman never won the Chess World Championship (but it would be a huge deal if it did happen). Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon in "The Queens Gambit." Courtesy of Netflix ...

As chess prodigy Elizabeth "Beth" Harmon, Anya Taylor-Joy has become autumn's biggest star and in the process lit up the chess world to such a degree that the 24-year-old talent could do for the ...

Also, the Chess World Championship is as big of a deal in real life as it is on the show.. It certainly was in the mid to late 20th century when The Queen’s Gambit takes place.While real-world ...

In the end, Beth had claimed her title and left no doubt in anybody's mind that she was the best chess player in world. But by the time she was champion of the Russiad tournament, Beth had already ...

Fischer, like Beth, was eccentric — so sensitive to sound that during the world championship, he insisted the sound of the cameras was distracting him and moved his games to a small storage room ...

The character of the main rival of brilliant chess player Beth Harmon could be based on at least two Soviet grandmasters. Both left no stone unturned in demolishing their opponents. “There is ...

Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon in The Queen’s Gambit. Here, Melling explains what appealed to him about the brainy, bewitching world the series creates and how his own chess skills stack up ...