The childhood drug addiction that inspired The Queen’s Gambit Here comes the knight – Nov. 27, 2020 - Tevis, originally from San Francisco, learned to play chess as a young boy but fell ill at the age of eight. He was put in a nursing home and abandoned by his parents, w... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCelebrity SobrietyDec 1 2020depressionDrug Abuse and AddictionGaminginterventionInterviewlife expectancyMental HealthRecoveryRehabsuicide