The title of the play “The Queen's Gambit” itself is a chess-specific term, which roughly means sacrificing one's chess pieces “pawn” deliberately at the beginning to achieve an active advantage in the chess game. It is actually a strategy of giving up first and gaining later.
It has been recorded since the 15th century, but it was not until the Vienna Chess League in 1873 that this opening method became more common. By the 1920s and 1930s, this opening method became very popular.
Although the plot of the play is entirely fictional, the chess tactics and grammar used in the content are all real, such as the most commonly mentioned backhand opening tactics in the play, the Sicilian Defense, the Queen's Opening, and the Rieti Opening, etc.Most of the names mentioned in the plot refer to celebrities in the real world of chess, such as Alexander Alyohin, Capablanca, Smyslov, etc., which proves that the world view of the series created by the director isReally exists in history.
In the play, Beth Harmon lost to the Soviet world champion Bogov twice in Mexico City and Paris, and it was not until the third time that she defeated her opponent in Moscow and won the world championship.But the reality is: in the history of chess, no female player has ever won the world championship after defeating a male player.
Beth Harmon, who showed amazing talent in the orphanage, was invited to a local middle school for a 1-on-12 round battle, sweeping all opponents in 1 hour and 20 minutes.In the history of chess, Alexander Alekhine also had a classic wheel battle.In 1924, Alekhine played a 1-on-26 blind chess round match in New York, and finally achieved 17 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses.
The drama also reproduced a scene that will no longer appear in chess today: sealing chess, which appeared three times in just 7 episodes.Because the long and cumbersome game length could no longer keep up with the times, the International Chess Federation later abolished this rule.However, in the era of Beth Harmon's play, banning chess was a common phenomenon.In episode 7, when the game between Beth and Bogov reached a critical point, the latter asked to close the game.After the chess is closed, the players will enter the collective research stage. In the play, Benny, Harry and others also help Beth Harmon research the method of dismantling the chess through overseas phone calls.
American chess player Bobby Fischer is one of the prototypes of the heroine Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, and the other prototype is the female chess player Little Polgar.
After watching the short play, little Polgar said that some of the plots in the play were very real, as if she was in the chess game.But Fisher's prototype plot plays a larger role. Fisher and Beth Harmon in the play are almost contemporary American chess players. Both became famous after defeating the Soviet world champion during the Cold War.Little Polgar is the strongest player in the women's chess world. Her highest world ranking has been in the top ten. Like Beth Harmon, she has defeated almost all male chess players, but she has not reached the top.
