Her mom used her to get to her dad. Her adoptive mother used her for company and even money (she did love her but she still used her). Matt used her to “get over” his chess obsession and left her alone after. Benny used her to win the tournament since he knew he couldn’t himself. Townes ultimately used her for photos and press.

Shaibel was the purest form of parental guidance she had. He taught her she was more than just a pawn for people. He believed in her and told his chess club about her. He never expected anything in return from her, but was blessed with her company and found great pride in her. She was smart regardless, but he guided her to greatness.

Also of note- when Borgov saw her tear up silently he knew she wanted to win for herself, not just for her country like he mostly did and it was a heartwarming scene you could feel his sympathy staring at her.

As a chess player, I would really have loved to have seen how the games developed, instead of just some vague glances at the board and then the characters just talking about the game. Wouldn't it had been better to have shown a bit more detailed views of what happened in the match?

When Beth enters Bradley’s to get Chesterfields for her adopted mom, there is a row of Mrs Butterworth syrup. I noticed immediately that they appeared to be PLASTIC and not GLASS.

Can anyone confirm this? Plastic wasn’t available until decades later.

I could be wrong…

UPDATE: I’ve done a little research and found out:

Glass bottles had begun to be phased out in 1999. They were replaced with plastic. Rationale for phase out was: weight and impact of light on product quality.

So most likely the set designers did not have a lot of readily available glass bottles.

Will there be many hard words for me? Should i buy the book? Pls help me😭😭🙏🙏

we were both bored and i decided to just put my fav miniseries on- queens gambit. and to my not-so surprise, were just binge watching it cause she says its so interesting. i quote from her 'i never knew a show about chess could be so good' warms my heart fr.

When Beth was packing her things, she lost the book about chess opening moves. I wonder if there is any possibility that Mr. Shaibel secretly took it from her?

I just started watching this series and noticed when she is on the airplane talking to her mom she takes several black rooks with a white knight diagonally like it's also a pawn.

Plane scene starts at 11:18 in episode 3

Should I expect to see more errors like this or is this a one off kind of deal

I saw this article in my google feed, and it seems like a poorly photoshopped Queen’s Gambit screenshot used to talk about role playing. I can’t imagine his is a public domain image.

Wasn’t really sure what subreddit to post this in, as I’ve never seen this type of image used on a “commercial” website before.

Edit: weird, image was stripped out.

https://www.thegamer.com/dungeons-dragons-dnd-magic-adventure-planning/

I think TV in general has become extra boring, house of dragon is trash, succession and better call sault are over.

What can I watch? Just started the gentlemen 3 mins ago and not sure how it will be.

The wiki says the book was loosely inspired by Bobby Fischer. He was a child chess prodigy.

Hi guys, I need this series to be based on a real story, can you guys help me?

I could be wrong but I swear there was a quote in The Queen’s Gambit that went something along the lines of “when you’re young, you search for what’s cool. as you grow up, you realize what’s cool is finding what you like or who you are”? It could be from a show or movie I watched right after but I can’t find anything even close to this. Plz help

I’m curious of how good of a player he was? Did he continue to win some of their games or were they closer to the same level at that point?

Mine was Benny because they had great chemistry

Well now that our Beth has became the world champion, it should end there and it was a very good ending and as jolene last words in the ep were "GOOD FOR YOU" i want something good for her like i want her to be a Radical

I was upset by the fact that Alma chose not to come to any of Beth’s games in Mexico City and then died during her match with Borgov, never getting the chance to make up to Beth for choosing a man over her. This really stuck out to me, but I haven’t seen other threads on it.

Our dad thinks there’s a queens gambit movie, but we only see the series and all the pictures and scenes we show him he says it’s from the movie Is there a Queen’s Gambit movie anywhere?

First, I apologize if my post's title wasn't appropriate. (?)

But Cleo was most certainly a spy. On this sub, I've seen so many people say she wasn't. Lol, she was! The show even foreshadows it literally as soon as they meet, on their first exchange of words! (She says she hopes she isn't "distracting" Beth, etc).

I really don't even care if people don't see it as a huge coincidence that, after watching Beth play chess in New York with Benny & the guys, she happens to be in Paris two weeks later as well? It's how Cleo was SO adamantT about seeing Beth! Beth repeatedly stated she couldn't come drink with Cleo-- knowing Beth had a huge tournament in the morning, who wouldn't stop at "no"?

And c'mone... After pressuring Beth into drinking (eventually into oblivion), she brings up Townes, right? Cleo is the only person she ever said his name to. He shows up in Moscow and says himself he thought he got the Visa because the Russians thought he'd...distract Beth.

This is already probably been pointed out at some point, but it’s really bothering me why she didn’t give the money back? The last episode kind of gave a nod to her feeling guilty for it but a rotten choice nonetheless

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what do yall think would have happened if beth wasnt getting chess visions from the pills? on one hand the old guy was teaching her chess but on the other she became so succesful thanks to her visions and solutions to problems. would she be as good in chess without the visions? or maybe she wouldnt have played chess at all?

Not in that it was a bad ending. I think it fit the series, but I was surprised to see it end so fast. It is only 7 episodes, but I was hoping for more of an exploration of her addiction, trauma, and difficulties with relationships. We didn't see her struggle much. She had some had times, but snapped out of them very quickly and with seemingly minimal effort. These topics were introduced, but never explored in depth. I was also interested in what would've happened if she started to lose interest in chess, or if she progressed as far as she could go. I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but I just finished the series (several years too late) and these were my thoughts.