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    Aside from Beth Harmon, you’re one of the only other well known female chess players. During the U.S. Championship, you meet Benny Watts, one of the most attractive chess players you’ve ever met.

    Will you become friends with him, will you two just hook up, or will your competitiveness get the best of you entirely?

    Be prepared for very slow updates because I suck at writing sometimes

    Title from You’re The One by The Vogues

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    5,002
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    3/?
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    5
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    1
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    “You’re not real,” He croaks out once his insides finally stop trying to tear themselves out of him.

    She shrugs and pulls her knees to her chest.

    “I’m not sure,” She admits. “I’m definitely dead.”

    Benny nods and leans his head back against the cold concrete of the wall.

    “You’re definitely dead.”

    “I guess I won’t need the air mattress then.”

    aka Beth is a ghost and Benny is having a hard time accepting it.

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    13,179
    Chapters:
    1/1
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    14
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    97
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    13
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    648
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    Full story for my plot idea “New Champion”
    Sorry I suck at summarizing.

    Language:
    English
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    4,891
    Chapters:
    10/20
    Comments:
    7
    Kudos:
    17
    Bookmarks:
    1
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    713
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    Beth Harmon over the years.
    The journey of the female chess grandmaster and world champion in friendships, family, self-discovery and self-love.

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    English
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    7,599
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    4
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    33
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    8
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    397
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    “Night shifts require stamina, flexibility, commitment and the ability to pace yourself just right,” Hilton tells Beth.  He frowns.  “It’s sexier when Benny does the spiel.”

    “Is it,” Cleo says drily.

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    Chapters:
    1/2
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    54
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    350
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    76
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    3,812
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    Beth Harmon, fake dating Benny Watts, and discovering what’s real and what’s not.

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    1/1
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    3
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    23
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    318
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    55
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    5,411
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    Завоевав титул чемпионки мира, Бет с удивлением обнаруживает, что жизнь продолжается и может быть сносной. А временами — даже доставлять удовольствие. Эпилог к Ходу королевы.

    Language:
    Русский
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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Kudos:
    2
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    101
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    Beth Harmon of the United States from his own Lexington, Kentucky, is the 1968 Chess World Champion.

    Harry Beltik doesn't know how to place himself in her new life.

    A story about Harry, Beth, and losing.

    Language:
    English
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    1/1
    Comments:
    8
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    19
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    1
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    What if the mug Benny has during the Moscow call scene was a present. For Beth.

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    651
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    52
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    7
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    817
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    Beth's world is widening whilst Benny's seems to shrink, but what's the world to the universe within a letter?

    A one off idea involving handwriting that spiraled into something far beyond my control. Least I could do is take you guys along for the ride.

    Language:
    English
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    8,538
    Chapters:
    1/?
    Comments:
    6
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    46
    Bookmarks:
    6
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    414
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    Beth stares at Bill in abject horror across the polished expanse of his desk. “No,” she says, “absolutely not.”

    Bill spreads his hands. “I’m sorry, Beth, but there’s nothing more I can do. If you want to go on tour this summer, this is your only option.”

    Or, the Band AU some people did actually ask for.

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    Chapters:
    5/12
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    1
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    34
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    292
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    28
    Hits:
    2,557
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    And maybe family isn’t forever either, perhaps you can’t put a temporal dimension to it, can’t measure it by a chess clock or even a calendar year. But maybe not being alone isn’t a permanent state either. Perhaps there are people that come into your life when you need it, and are there when you need it.

    -

    or 5 Times Friends Helped Beth 1 Time Beth Helped Her Friend

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    Chapters:
    6/6
    Comments:
    15
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    271
    Bookmarks:
    38
    Hits:
    2,816
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    From your bedside table, you read the note one more time, linger horizontally a twinge longer than you expected to, and then walk to start your day. It’s sinking in that the way Jolene looks at you will never be the same. Is the ground supposed to be this unsteady?

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    English
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    2,884
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
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    2
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    337
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    Benny Watts and Josephine Howard used to be the power couple of the chess world until she disappeared. It’s four years later when the two run into each other again as Josephine tries to find her way back.

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    English
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    14,964
    Chapters:
    11/?
    Comments:
    29
    Kudos:
    163
    Bookmarks:
    32
    Hits:
    3,155
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    1975.

     

     

     

    “Beth’s okay,” Benny says. The statement is almost too simple for the liminal space they occupy at the moment, themselves and not themselves, spending afternoons stripping away the people they are in favour of just becoming two minds, two minds and a board and a world’s wealth of chess knowledge as they strive to push Beth to her sweetest sharpest limits. It’s exhilarating and exhausting and enthralling; some days it’s awful and brutal and gruelling, and other days it’s like watching a universe being born behind Beth’s eyes, both of them half-hysterical and marvelling.

    Series
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    English
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    11,345
    Chapters:
    1/?
    Comments:
    44
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    593
    Bookmarks:
    68
    Hits:
    8,139
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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.

    Series
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    English
    Words:
    43,547
    Chapters:
    19/?
    Comments:
    195
    Kudos:
    670
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    98
    Hits:
    17,371
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    Benny’s been living in Lexington for exactly seven months and twelve days when he comes home with an animal.
    -
    or Beth and Benny and life with a dog.

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    10,633
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    22
    Kudos:
    117
    Bookmarks:
    12
    Hits:
    1,193
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    Beth's eyes filled with tears, rage pouring through her as she realized the truth. She glared at me, looking up from the chess board and its tantalizing wooden pieces. Her gaze could've burned a hole through me.

    "Beth," I started, wishing I had never entered the stupid tournament in the first place. Why did I have to enter the US Championship just to beat her? What kind of sister does that?

    "I hate you," she spat, tears dropping from her eyes. I felt something inside of me freeze, the weight of her words sinking into me. Her eyes were so sharp and menacing, and I could tell she was telling me the truth. I wanted to tell myself she didn't mean it, but I'd never seen that look in someone's eyes before. She looked at me like I had ruined her.

    ~

    6/18/21 update: hi friends, i changed my mind. i’ll be updating the remaining 5 chaps as i write them with no schedule. i won’t be responding to comments but plz keep leaving them! i’ll read them all after i upload the rest of the work. thanks for your time and love.
    -spencer

    Language:
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    Chapters:
    31/36
    Comments:
    157
    Kudos:
    382
    Bookmarks:
    54
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    11,394
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    Beth is sent back in time and has a second chance.
    My take on the time trave trope

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    12,464
    Chapters:
    5/?
    Comments:
    73
    Kudos:
    337
    Bookmarks:
    86
    Hits:
    4,781
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    By the tender age of 18, Beth Harmon has lost two mothers. Practice does not make it easier, she learns.

    --

    Beth attends Alma's funeral. Luckily for her, so does Harry.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,063
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    4
    Kudos:
    21
    Hits:
    206

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