Beth Harmon aka Elizabeth Harmon (born 2 November 1948) was a professional chess player and entrepreneur from Winchester, Kentucky, United States. She was famously known in the country for her extra-ordinary mental skills. Due to her skills, she won numerous titles at national level chess tournaments.
In the year 1983, the famous author Walter Tevis published a novel titled “The Queen’s Gambit” on the theme of chess, feminism, alcoholism, and drug addiction. Basically, this novel is based on the life story of chess player “Beth Harmon”. In October 2020, Netflix Original described the same true story of Beth Harmon through an online web series[1]Netflix named The Queen’s Gambit (2020).
As per the sources, The Queen’s Gambit follows chess wonder Beth Harmon’s life from her youth in an orphanage through her battles with sedative and liquor dependence on her victorious ascent through the Grandmaster positions. Eight-year-old vagrant Beth Harmon hushes up, dreary, and by all appearances mediocre until she plays her first round of chess.
The Queen’s Gambit novel
Her faculties develop keener, her reasoning more clear, and without precedent for her life, she feels herself completely in charge. By the age of 16, she’s going after the U.S. Open title. Be that as it may, as she sharpens her aptitudes on the expert circuit, the stakes get higher; her separation develops all the more startling, and the idea of break turns into all the more enticing.
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| Real Full Birth Name | Elizabeth Harmon. |
| Nickname | Beth Harmon. |
| Age at the time of death | Not Known. |
| Cause of Death | Will Update. |
| Date of Birth | November 2, 1948 (Tuesday). |
| Date of Death | Not Known. |
| Birthplace/Hometown | Winchester, Kentucky, United States. |
| Gender | Female. |
| Religion | Christian. |
| Nationality | American. |
| Ethnicity | White. |
| Sexuality (Gay or Lesbian) | Straight. |
| Zodiac Birth Sign | Scorpio. |
Career & Wealth | |
| Net worth (As in 2020) | Under-Estimate. |
| Biopic/Novel | The Queen's Gambit. |
| Occupation. | Professional chess player. |
| Famous as | The Queen's Gambit. |
| Games | 1. Harmon vs. Beltik (1963). 2. Harmon vs. Watts (1966). 3. Watts vs. Harmon (1967). 4. Harmon vs. Borgov (1968). |
| Titles earned | 1. Kentucky State Champion. 2. United States Champion. |
| Affiliations | 1. Methuen Home (former). 2. United States Chess Federation. 3. International Chess Federation. |
Personal Information | |
| Marital Status | Unmarried. |
| Husband | None. |
| Dating History | Not Revealed. |
| Mentor | William Shaibel. |
| Friends | 1. Jolene. 2. D. L. Townes. 3. Matt. 4. Mike. 5. Hilton Wexler. 6. Arthur Levertov. 7. Cleo. 8. Danny Weiss. 9. Dave Friedman. |
Family | |
| Parents | Father: Paul (biological). Mother: Alice Harmon (biological). Father: Allston Wheatley (adoptive). Mother: Alma Wheatley (adoptive). |
| Siblings | Not Known. |
| Social media | N/A. |
Physical Statistics | |
| Height | Feet & Inches: 5' 7". Meters: 1.69 m. Centimeters: 169 cm. |
| Eye Color | Hazel. |
| Hair Color | Auburn. |
| Weight | Pounds: 101.41 lbs. Kilograms: 46 Kg. |
Education | |
| Highest Qualification | High-School Graduate. |
| School | Local Private School. |
| Alma Mater | Will Update Soon. |
Early Life, Parents & Siblings
Beth Harmon was born as Elizabeth Harmon to her parents on November 2, 1948 (Tuesday) in Winchester, Kentucky, United States. According to the media sources, her biological parents are “Alice Harmon” (mother) and “Paul” (father).
Beth Harmon and her friends in the movie
There is no information is available about her siblings to the media. According to the year 2020, Beth Harmon’s age is 72 years old. She orphaned at a very young age. She was a talented lady and expertise in mathematics, history, and science subjects. As per the sources, she was adopted by Alma Wheatley and Allston Wheatley.
Not only this, but she was very fluent in Russian and English languages. She had a deep interest in chess since childhood. As per the sources, her mentor was William Shaibel.
Beth Harmon’s True Story
According to the media sources, Harmon is shipped off Methuen Home, a solely female Christian orphanage, on July 25th, 1957, after her mom, Alice Harmon, passed on in a car accident, and her dad obscure. On her appearance, she dressed in uniform garments with a haircut, in which her name was weaved onto by her mom was evidently singed.
In the orphanage, she met Jolene; a more established, sure vagrant who exhorts her against gulping the “nutrients” in the daytime. While she overlooks this exhortation from the start, Harmon rapidly understands the benefit of sparing them until she can focus alone. They become dear companions through common reverence and comprehension of one another.
Beth Harmon’s true story
In the interim, during her first night at the halfway house, Harmon has a flashback that her dad authoritatively abandoned attempting to see her since Alice had continued “fleeing”. In a similar flashback, Harmon understands that her mom had taken similar nutrients, anticipating her vulnerability to Librium dependence.
Alice (biological mom) gathers together close to home effects that apparently share an association with Paul and her past, including the exposition she composed as a professor of mathematics. Harmon looks as she consumes these things in a barrel outside their trailer.
Netflix’s series The Queen’s Gambit
In her previous life, Harmon communicates capability in arithmetic, likely gratitude to her mom. She solves the nine square root issues in a measure of time which apparently shocks her instructor, who immediately sends Harmon away to clean the writing board erasers in the storm cellar.
It is in the storm cellar where the first experience with chess started with seeing the halfway house’s overseer, Mr. Shaibel, playing alone, whereby she got interested in the checkered example of the eight-by-eight network.
the character of Beth Harmon and William Shaibel
This is likewise where her utilization of Librium to daydream starts. She creatures storing narcotics until sunset, using them to picture the chessboard she got fixated on. Her acknowledgment permits her to quickly improve at chess, yet it has the negative result of making an apparent reliance on them, showing the beginnings of dependence.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Beth Harmon
- After her first met with William Shaibel, she became a follower of chess.
- Later, Mr. Shaibel became his mentor and started teaching her professional chess.
- She learned basic and advanced skills of chess from her mentor “William Shaibel”.
- After giving the training of chess to Beth Harmon, Mr.Shaibel organized a small chess competition in the basement.
The Queen’s Gambit movie
- In her first competition, Beth played chess with Shaibel’s guest player “Mr. Ganz”.
- In the game she played the Réti Opening and checkmates Mr. Ganz in move eight with a straight line “Nf3 f5 2. d3 d5?! 3. e4?! fxe4?! 4. Ne5?! exd3 5. Bxd3 Nc6?? 6. Qh5+ g6 7. Bxg6+ hxg6 8. Qxg6#”.
- After seeing her skills, Mr. Ganz impressed and shows her off to the local chess club.
- After that, Beth Harmon played so many national chess championships.
- Some of her best and memorable championships are “Harmon vs. Beltik (1963)”, “Harmon vs. Watts (1966)”, “Watts vs. Harmon (1967)”, and “Harmon vs. Borgov (1968)”.
- She also won many titles including Kentucky State Champion and the United States Champion.
- Due to her extra-ordinary skills, she is known as The Queen’s Gambit.
- There is a web series and a novel also launched on her biopic.
- On 23 October 2020, Netflix Original released a web series titled “The Queen’s Gambit”, in which all the entire story of Beth’s life has shown.
- Three talented celebrities played different age’s role as Beth Harmon.
- Her 5 years old character was shown by child actress “Annabeth Kelly”.
- Young Beth was played by Isla Johnston and the main role of Beth Harmon was played by famous actress “Anya Taylor-Joy”.
Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon
- In this series, her friends and family have also shown.
- The other main cast of the web series is Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Russell Dennis Lewis, Moses Ingram, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and others.
- According to the media sources, the height of Beth Harmon was 169 centimeters (approx.).
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