Book Review Queen S Gambit

Spoilers for the queen s gambit.

Book review queen s gambit. The end of the queen s gambit is a cruel and hopeful celebration of a young woman s journey to her own power. The queen s gambit review from an orphanage basement to the top of the chess world anya taylor joy plays a 64 square prodigy in netflix s gorgeous walter tevis adaptation which while heavy on. You don t have to play chess to understand the queen s gambit but it helps to have some sympathy for the game s seduction.

Tevis s novel ends on a bright pleasant note and it s exactly the kind of story we need right now. The queen s gambit a fiction book was a solid 4 star read. After beth is placed in the methuen home for orphaned girls she learns to play chess taught to her by the home s custodian and it becomes apparent that she is a true prodigy.

Even so tevis describes the matches in a way that gives just enough details about the moves to convey their tense psychological and aggressive implications. The core of the queen s gambit a young woman struggling to matter at all becomes a great chess player might be impossible for her to play.