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Passed pawn by Astrid21_BB
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
02 Dec 2025
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Beth Harmon.
To himself, Vasily immediately half-jokingly dubbed her a “passing pawn” and smiled at his joke with a corner of his lips, the only smile that he could allow himself in relation to her.
He wasn't afraid of Harmon. But it will be interesting to see her the moment he puts her back in her place. There was something in this, in the fact that he was the one who returned her to her place. Something that excites him in a way that is different from ordinary victories. Wrongly exciting.
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Ruin Me Slowly, My Dear by Groovypalacehorselover (Annibrine)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
24 Oct 2025
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Moscow was supposed to be the end of this persistent curiosity, yet it seemed now that it was only the mouth of the pitfall that would lead him to an early grave. Beth Harmon was a luminary- a flame that had caught Vasily in a choke-hold. From the moment he saw her eyes darken with the same hunger and madness that he holds- fervently staring at him as though she wanted to peel open his skin- he knew that she was going to dethrone him. But she was never supposed to be a linchpin. His life was meant to revolve around keeping himself superior to her, but instead he found it revolving around her.
He thought that getting bested would finally snuff out these dangerous feelings. But as he held her warm lithe form against his body- the sound of applause echoing around them like thunder; Vasily Borgov, consciously for the first time, was reminded of the fact that Beth Harmon was a beautiful woman.
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Five times Borgov thought of Beth's features in a way that made his stomach weak, and one time when he decided to finally do something about it.
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Entering her new life of sobriety following her win in Moscow, Beth finds a healthier distraction to fill the hole: developing an all-consuming, school-girl level crush on Vasily Borgov. Luchenko, delighted upon learning that she's made an attempt to study Russian in the past, takes it upon himself to bring her up to fluency.
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When her mother deliberately crashes their car, it ends Beth’s life as she knows it and strands her at Methuen Home. She has yet to learn of the chain of events this will set in motion. The one that will start with her introduction to the world of chess, give her a new mother, and take her far beyond the borders of Lexington.
As she works her way towards the very centre of that world, she meets numerous other people along the way. But among weak opponents, friendships, rivalries, and hardships there is one person who sticks out from among them all. Vasily Borgov, the intimidating World Champion from the Soviet Union with a face that is much harder to read than the sixty-four squares he rules over, catches her eyes from the start and she finds it impossible to look away.
Or, we follow Beth through canon and into the years beyond as she struggles with finding her place in the world, creating bonds with others, and substance abuse, but also finds the good things in life, such as success, friendship, and love.
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- Part 1 of Chess and Love
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Only time will tell if they are each other's worst blunders.
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Elizabeth Harmon caused headlines when she defected to the USSR, after the Moscow Invitational to marry her longtime lover, Vasily Borgov. A love story for the ages, the newspapers said.
Only that wasn’t the truth.
Beth and Borgov find themselves pawns in a political game, and the center of an obsession born during World War II, and they only have each other to rely on.
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- Part 1 of Long Shadows
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The universe of ‘Life and Love’ seen through Vasily Borgov’s eyes, starting when he is a young child and discovers chess. As time then goes by, he will meet both new and familiar faces as he tries to find his place in life and a sense of freedom.
First chapter is through Ekaterina Borgova's pov (Vasily's mother) and can be read as a standalone, but after that we get into ‘Life and Love’ spoiler territory, so please read that first for chapter 2 and onwards.
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- Part 2 of Chess and Love
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Borgov’s mouth turns up in a soft smile and tilts his head just so towards his son.
All at once, Beth is angry.
Angry that one defeat is all it takes for Borgov’s attention to deviate. Does he no longer try in his games against her?
Angry that he is a father who stayed.
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Fatherhood can mean different things to different people. For most of his life so far, it meant something easy for Vasily Borgov, no matter if it was his relationship with his own late father or his relationship with his son. But things do not always stay easy, and from the day his dear Liza entered his life, she has complicated many things. And now it is time to come face to face with the most significant complication of them all.
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She thinks he feels the same draw she does. An intellectual fascination, of course, for the only other person who can match them. But a sexual one too. It comes with the territory, she thinks, she’s never been truly attracted to a man who couldn’t match her for brains. She never tries to hide it from him – feels no shame in it at all, in fact. He’s handsome and familiar, with a consistent solidity to him that appeals to her after the slippery, whippet-thinness of Benny. Beth is a person with a bad habit of clinging onto the familiar whether it’s good for her or not. She’s been watching him on screens and in pictures since she stole her very first copy of Chess Review; she knows his face better than most men in her life. And, anyway, this can’t be worse for her than the pills.
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Beth ascends the world stage.
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- Part 2 of Cold, Cold City
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This is a list of the many characters (canon and not) that are presented in CLM, with their characteristics and data. I decided to make it for explaining and list the various changes that I made during the course of the fic, being this a story with a lot of chapters and events.
The descriptions will be uploaded and edited every time a new CLM chapter will be uploaded, and I will report what are spoilers from what is not.
Like a wiki.This story will be even used by me to post some of my illustrations about my story🤗🤗
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- Part 3 of The Laws of Chess
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Their games will always end in a draw.
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when the world was at war before, we just kept dancing by nymphastral
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Sep 2021
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Yes, this is exactly what you think it is.
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Staying in Moscow after the Invitational, Beth is delighted to find Vasily Borgov is to show her the city. She has plans. So has Borgov. Both gets more than they had envisioned.
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It's September 23, 2018, and the 43rd Chess Olympiad is about to begin.
When Elizabeth Harmon logs on her favorite dating app out of boredom, she can't imagine this choice will shake her world to its core.When the alert that she has matched with him appears on her screen, she stops breathing for a whole second. Beth clicks on the message option, sure that there has been a mistake or a bug, but the chat opens without fuss. She has really matched with Vasily Borgov.
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The year is 2007, and Vasily Borgov gets more than he bargained for when he meets Beth Harmon at a Paris club the night before their big tournament.
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at that time I would not consent to my freedom by fourteenlines
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
08 Jul 2021
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Later, when they’re dressing for the day, he in a sand-colored linen suit, she in ivory muslin, she casually remarks on their plans for the upcoming tournament in Vienna and he goes still, pausing in the middle of fastening his cuffs. His eyes snap to hers and he says, “They’ll be watching us more closely now.”
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pawn and knight (watch your words) by ShadowSpellchecker
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
21 Jun 2021
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He is eight when the mark appears. He doesn't notice. His opponent does.
Or: First-words soulmark AU. Benny is up for an Epic Chess Rivalry. Beth just wants to win it all.
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- Part 1 of pawn and knight
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When two kin spirits meet, a tie soon binds them in a knot none can yank loose.
Beth Harmon and Vasily Borgov share one such tie. It only gets stronger through time.Series
- Part 2 of We deserve a soft epilogue my dear