β Scribed by Tevis, Walter
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
"What Walter Tevis did for pool in The Hustler, he does for chess in The Queen's Gambit" (Playboy).
When eight-year-old Beth Harmon's parents are killed in an automobile accident, she's placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn moreβand steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted.
At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US championβand Russia awaits . . .
Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen's Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novelβone that's...
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