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* DutchAngle: The camera tilts around a lot as Beth is realizing that she will lose her match with U.S. champion Benny Watts. It's the first time she ever loses.[[note]]Not counting when she was eight and learning the rules from Mr. Sheibel.[[/note]]
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* DutchAngle: The camera tilts around a lot as Beth is realizing that she will lose her match with U.S. champion Benny Watts. It's the first time she ever loses.[[note]]Not counting when she was eight and learning the rules from Mr. Sheibel.Shaibel.[[/note]]
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* ArtisticLicenseChess [[AvertedTrope Averted]]: the showrunners hired Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini as consultants, and care was taken that every shot of a chess board is set in a believable game layout, and the actors were coached to understand the meaning of the moves they made. The only artistic licence was is aversion to draws, but many games do end in a surrender.
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* ArtisticLicenseChess ArtisticLicenseChess: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]: Averted]] the showrunners hired Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini as consultants, and care was taken that every shot of a chess board is set in a believable game layout, and the actors were coached to understand the meaning of the moves they made. The only artistic licence was is aversion to draws, but many games do end in a surrender.
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* BilingualBackfire: Bogrov's handlers aren't aware that Beth had studied Russian. Beth later stings Bogrov at a press conference by making a barb about something the handlers said.
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* LonelyBachelorPad: Benny's sub-sub basement apartment, which holds a small bed, a couple miss-matched lawn chairs, and several chess boards.
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** People smoking indoors (even on airplanes) and around children. A random gag in episode 3 has Alma flipping on a TV set just in time to hear a woman on TV saying "Got a cigarette, Doctor?"
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** [[EverybodySmokes People smoking indoors indoors]] (even on airplanes) and around children. A random gag in episode 3 has Alma flipping on a TV set just in time to hear a woman on TV saying "Got a cigarette, Doctor?"Doctor?". The heavy alcohol use displayed by many characters is also very era-appropriate.
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* ArtisticLicenseChess [[AvertedTrope Averted]]: the showrunners hired Garry Kasparov and Bruce Pandolfini as consultants, and care was taken that every shot of a chess board is set in a believable game layout, and the actors were coached to understand the meaning of the moves they made. The only artistic licence was is aversion to draws, but many games do end in a surrender.
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* BedmateReveal: In the opening sequence of the first episode, Beth is shown getting out of the bathtub in her hotel room fully-clothed but soaking wet. She hastily gets ready for what is revealed to be a match with Borgov. As she leaves the room, the camera shows someone stirring in the bed with the implication that Beth spent the night with that person. It is not revealed until the sixth episode that the person in bed is [[spoiler: Cleo]]. Although it is implied that they had sex, the fact that Beth wakes up in the bathtub and is fully-clothed suggests otherwise.
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* LighterAndSofter: Jolene sexually abusing Beth is committed from the series and the effects of the tranquilizers are much less pronounced in the book.
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* LighterAndSofter: Jolene sexually abusing Beth is omitted from the series and the effects of the tranquilizers are much less pronounced in the book.
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* ForcedAddiction: The OrphanageOfFear in which Beth and Jolene were raised used and abused tranquilizers to make the orphans easier to manage. Beth becomes addicted to them; though it can be assumed she is far from the only one, she is the only one shown.
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* FriendshipMoment: [[spoiler: An important ingredient for Beth's victory against Borgov. Without the help of her friends and former rivals in America, suggesting possible strategies via telephone the night before match, the result could have been very different. As Benny previously mentioned, the Russian players work together as a team, so to beat Borgov, Beth needs to do the same.]]
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* FriendshipMoment: [[spoiler: An [[spoiler:An important ingredient for Beth's victory against Borgov. Without the help of her friends and former rivals in America, suggesting possible strategies via telephone the night before match, the result could have been very different. As Benny previously mentioned, the Russian players work together as a team, so to beat Borgov, Beth needs to do the same.]]
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* HardWorkMontage: After [[spoiler: Alma dies,]] Beth returns to Kentucky after her Paris loss and starts redecorating the house to her liking.
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* HardWorkMontage: After [[spoiler: Alma [[spoiler:Alma dies,]] Beth returns to Kentucky after her Paris loss and starts redecorating the house to her liking.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book Beth's mother dies in a car accident, but in the show, she commits suicide while driving, attempting a TakingYouWithMe with Beth
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book Beth's mother dies in a car accident, but in the show, she commits suicide while driving, attempting a TakingYouWithMe with BethBeth.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the book Beth's mother dies in a car accident, but in the show, she commits suicide while driving, attempting a TakingYouWithMe with Beth
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** Beth's nickname InUniverse is "The Chess Queen", and her playstyle is [[AttackAttackAttack incredibly aggressive]], usually sacrificing some of her powerful pieces to achieve victory.
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** Beth's nickname InUniverse is "The Chess Queen", and her playstyle playing style is [[AttackAttackAttack incredibly aggressive]], usually sacrificing some of her powerful pieces to achieve victory.
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* LighterAndSofter: Jolene sexually abusing Beth is committed from the series and the effects of the tranquilizers are much less pronounced in the book.
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** One reason given for [[spoiler:Beth's popularity with the Russians]] is that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili]], the women's chess champion from the Soviet Union, never faced men. In real life, Gaprindashvili did play men regularly in the 1960s, even once taking part in a qualifying tournament for the men's USSR championship.
*** This is even more disappointing since the book, which the show followed very closely for the most part, got this right, stating that although Gaprindashvili herself wasn't at the level of Beth or the other players in the Moscow tournament, she had competed against them before (as she did against a number of top male players in reality).
*** This is even more disappointing since the book, which the show followed very closely for the most part, got this right, stating that although Gaprindashvili herself wasn't at the level of Beth or the other players in the Moscow tournament, she had competed against them before (as she did against a number of top male players in reality).
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** One reason given for [[spoiler:Beth's popularity with the Russians]] is that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili]], the women's chess champion from the Soviet Union, never faced men. In real life, Gaprindashvili did play men regularly in the 1960s, even once taking part in a qualifying tournament for the men's USSR championship.
***championship. This is even more disappointing since the book, which the show followed very closely for the most part, got this right, stating that although Gaprindashvili herself wasn't at the level of Beth or the other players in the Moscow tournament, she had competed against them before (as she did against a number of top male players in reality).
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