Gambito de dama

Scott Frank

The Queen's Gambit is the 2020 Netflix miniseries created by Scott Frank and Allan Scott, based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel. In 1950s Kentucky, the orphaned Beth Harmon is sent to the Methuen Home for Girls, where the custodian, Mr. Shaibel, teaches her chess in the basement. She turns out to be a prodigy. Adopted as a teenager by Alma Wheatley, Beth begins winning tournaments across America and abroad while struggling with a dependence on tranquilizers and alcohol. Over the 1960s her ambition leads her toward the world's best players, above all the Soviet champion Vasily Borgov.