Was Beth Harmon a Real Person?

After the success of the Queen’s Gambit Netflix series many people have asked whether Beth Harmon was based on a real chess player, or if it was even possible for a player with that talent to exist. How realistic is the Queen’s Gambit in it’s representation of chess? Beth Harmon in the Netflix series ‘The Queen’s Gambit’.A first point of confusion for many viewers is that many

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