ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)

Okay, so the queen's gambit is a story about a girl named Beth who is really good at playing chess. She loves playing chess, and she's really good at it because she can think ahead and plan out her moves.

But she has a hard life, and she's alone a lot. Her mom dies when she's young, and then she gets sent to an orphanage where they give her some pills that help her sleep.

Even though it seems like her life is really hard, she finds a way to escape it through chess. She starts playing against the janitor in the basement, and he teaches her some new moves.

Then, she gets adopted by a couple, and they're pretty nice to her. They let her play chess in the basement, and she starts to become really good.

She goes to some tournaments, and she beats all the boys. They're not used to playing against a girl, so they underestimate her. But she's really good.

She keeps playing, and she keeps winning. And she starts to get addicted to the pills that she takes to sleep at night.

But even when things get tough, she doesn't give up. She keeps playing chess, and she keeps winning.

The queen's gambit is a story about how one girl found a way to escape the hard parts of her life by playing a game that she loved. And it shows that even when things are hard, you can still find a way to be happy.