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The Queen's Gambit: where to start reading
Adapts The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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1 seasons
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1 book
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After Limited Series, in the books you are
at The Queen's Gambit.
through the end of the novel.
The seven-episode limited series adapts the whole of Walter Tevis's novel, telling one complete story.
Start reading at The Queen's Gambit (the complete novel)
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Limited Series draws on this book. Read the full story:
The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis
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What the show changed here
- InventedCleo, the Parisian model Beth befriends, is created for the series; the book has only a brief cameo she is loosely based on.
- InventedThe show expands Beth's late mother Alice into recurring flashbacks; the novel gives her death barely a paragraph.
- ChangedBook-Beth is plainer and more introverted; on screen she is more outgoing and glamorous, and the chess theory is thinned out.
- InventedBeth and Townes meet again in Moscow in the series, a scene the novel does not include.
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The Netflix limited series adapts Walter Tevis's single 1983 novel across its whole run.
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