Famous at 12, a drug addict at 13: I was the real-life Queen’s Gambit Beth. Here’s what they got wrong
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At 14, I was running 40 chess classes a week. I had a miscarriage in the children’s toilets where I worked. By day, I fended off advances from my students’ fathers; by night, I played in tournaments where men didn’t even think a girl could play