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[mediademon]

Anya Taylor Joy as Beth Harmon

[balteredsworld]

beth harmon + vasily borgov — an illicit affiar, ch 3

❝ it began in moscow when she had him beat. he'd given her his king then, and later pulled her aside. she'd kissed him first, still playing white.

[mnmarsart]

I forgot to post this here ♟️

[birdies-blog1]

The Scholars Mate

The Queen’s Gambit

In the show The Queen’s Gambit, Beth Harmon’s first chess teacher is a man named Mr. Shaibel. When she’s sent to the basement because the teacher doesn’t know what to do with the advanced student, that is when they meet. After convincing Mr. Shaibel to teach her to play chess, The Scholars Mate opening is the first strategy that he shows her. I think this strategy was chosen to symbolize where she is at the time. It’s a beginners move that every chess player try’s to use as well as looses to at some point in their career. That’s where she is at the moment. She’s a beginner. It’s an opening move where you use your queen early in the game to dominate the board, and back your opponent into a corner quickly, forcing them to do what you want them too. Experienced players know tons of ways out of this move but beginners don’t. I think this is symbolic for their relationship at that point. He knew more than her but she was trying to force him to do what she wanted. Because he’s older and more experienced he was able to out maneuver her, by locking her out of the basement after she insulted him.

[archivesofnostalgia]

benny watts is cute and all, but please u cannot deny the tension between beth and cleo. they were literally eye fucking each other, doing all kinds of sinful things with ONLY their eyes. even god was blushing when he saw beth and cleo together.

[savolaxsavoia]

[unfilmed]

“'I think some people explode onto the screen... They’re able to somehow bare their soul — you can see through their skin and into their minds and hearts... You can be a great actor and not be a star, but Anya has both.” - Robert Eggers talking about Anya Taylor-Joy.

“But you hear these titans of cinema and I’m just like, I am a child! I am a baby. This is insane.” - Anya Taylor-Joy on her skyrocketing career.

April 16th — Happy 25th birthday to the gorgeous and super talented Anya!

[xoxotommyxoxo]

“You play what's best for you.”

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[makimacult]

oh to be a chess player in the 1960s and walk into a bar only to see a cowboy in a leather jacket and a drop-dead gorgeous redhead gambling by playing speed chess

[mediademon]

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

Middle Game

[traashsmash]

I dont know why my body is so intent on sabotaging my brain, when my brain is perfectly capable of sabotaging itself.

-Alma Wheatley-/-Queen's Gambit-

[magekk0]

Beth Harmon Winter fashion studies

[birdies-blog1]

To tell you the truth of it, child… you’re astounding.

~Mr. Shaibel to Beth

Openings, The Queen’s Gambit

[archivesofnostalgia]

pulling out my hair, bc i only see beth x benny tags on here but barely any beth x cleo tags, im gonna scream. IM A PROUD CLEO AND BETH STAN U HEAR ME?

[aredhels]

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)

Chess isn’t always competitive. Chess can also be… beautiful. It was the board I noticed first. It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it. And it’s predictable, so if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.