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Taylor-Joy starred in the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit as Beth Harmon, an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with drug and alcohol dependency.
The Queens Gambit. In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction. Watch all you want. Won 11 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Limited Series, plus Golden Globes for Best Limited Series and Best Actress.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(Rr3FZt7iNbay0PEP_t3p6QQ__41,
Actually, Harmon does not exist. 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 Harmon‎.” Her name was Vera Menchik. She was born in the winter of 1906, in Moscow.
Beth Harmon is a fictional character based on a 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, but in the early 20th-century, a similar figure made history as the first female chess star to beat top-level male opponents.
Koneru Humpy was born in 1987, is an Indian chess grandmaster known as one of the country's greatest chess players. In 2002, at the age of 15 years and 1 month, she became the youngest woman ever to achieve the title of Grandmaster, breaking the record set by Judit Polgar.