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The Queen's Gambit

Taught chess by the janitor at her orphanage, Beth becomes a prodigy. As a teenager she plays for the world championship, but must conquer her fear to win.

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  • "The queen's gambit"@it
  • "Queen's gambit"@it

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  • "Een 8-jarig weesmeisje ontdekt dat zij een natuurtalent in het schaken is. Zij groeit uit tot de hoogst geclassificeerde vrouw in de geschiedenis van het spel maar de prijs daarvoor is hoog."
  • "Taught chess by the janitor at her orphanage, Beth becomes a prodigy. As a teenager she plays for the world championship, but must conquer her fear to win."
  • "Taught chess by the janitor at her orphanage, Beth becomes a prodigy. As a teenager she plays for the world championship, but must conquer her fear to win."@en
  • "Beth Harmon, orphaned at age eight, insists that the janitor teach her how to play chess and from then on her entire life is changed."
  • "L'auteur renouvelle ici avec les échecs ce qu'il avait fait pour le billard avec ##L'arnaque## un thriller psychologique intensif où il n'est pas besoin de connaître le jeu pour y prendre plaisir."
  • "Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given tranquilizers twice a day. Plain and shy, she learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a chess genius. Penniless and desperate to learn more, she steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a chess tournament. She also steals some of her foster mother's tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen she wins the Chess Tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the U.S. Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the U.S. Champion. Then she goes to Russia to face the Russians . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen's Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel one that's sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. "The Queen's Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years for the pure pleasure and skill of it." Michael Ondaatje"@en

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
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  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
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  • "The Queen's Gambit"@en
  • "Le jeu de la dame"
  • "The Queen's gambit"@en
  • "The Queen's gambit"
  • "Dronnninggambit"
  • "La regina degli scacchi"
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  • "Queen's gambit"@en
  • "Dame gambiet"
  • "Le Jeu de la Dame : roman"
  • "The queen's gambit"
  • "The queen's gambit"@en
  • "Musta kuningatar"@fi
  • "Gambito de reina"@es
  • "Le jeu de la dame : roman"
  • "Dronninggambit"@da

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