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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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31 May 2026
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Borgov shares his vodka with every opponent – win or lose – except her.
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31 May 2026
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— Ты всё равно уедешь к себе в Америку.
— А ты всё равно женат.
— Я могу развестись.
— Я могу остаться.Bookmarked by ToraEscri
31 May 2026
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“Have you ever heard of strip poker?” She asked, her dark irises finding his, glimmering and with a hint of amusement in that shining abyss. [...] “So why don’t we transpose this concept into chess? We play blitz games: you lose, you take off a piece of clothing. And we keep going until one of us runs out of clothes.”
“If you wish to see me naked, you have only to ask.”- Language:
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31 May 2026
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After the disappointment in the 1972 World Championship, Elizabeth Harmon meets Vasily Borgov again in Lugano.
They have a score to settle.Bookmarked by ToraEscri
31 May 2026
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All the times that Elizabeth Harmon was offered vodka in Moscow.
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31 May 2026
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Vasily Borgov, in the interval of one Moscow Invitational to the next.
(written for the Bethov One Year Celebration)
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30 May 2026
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In her, he sees a warped image of himself.
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30 May 2026
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Beth was aware she was obsessed with Vasily Borgov.
Maybe she was not alone.Bookmarked by ToraEscri
30 May 2026
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Her realization came in an elevator. She was tucked into a corner when Borgov and four others boarded, and she tried to make herself small, unimportant, trying to look away but not quite managing. But she heard them talking. Understood what they were saying, thank god for her Russian lessons. The two men flanking him listed her weaknesses with such a casual air that she thought she was going to die right there: she was a drunk, she was angry, she’s just a woman-
But Borgov cut them off.
"She’s an orphan. A survivor. She’s like us - losing is not an option for her. Otherwise, what would her life be?”
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29 May 2026
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Obedat' (To Dine) by hemlockq (orphan_account)
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit (Book)
08 Apr 2021
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Seven dinner parties and meet-ups: the Russian masters, Borgov, Townes, Benny, Harry, Jolene, and the ones Beth lost.
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29 May 2026
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Missing Scene: Episode 6, Adjournment by Mn_Art
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
24 Dec 2021
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Painted a scene from the novel that didn’t get adapted cause Netflix thinks putting Nona down for no reason is way better than this.
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29 May 2026
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give a dog a bone (give a girl a home) by hedgehog_goddess
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
16 Nov 2025
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Beth finds an unorthodox solution to being banned from chess at Methuen.
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29 May 2026
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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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27 May 2026
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Vasily Borgov was the same age as Benny Watts. (Tough for Benny, but not so tough for Beth.)
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26 May 2026
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26 May 2026
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“Make her yours,” his wife said. “Make her yours by any means necessary, and your loss now won’t be such a loss after all. Imagine what a political coup it would be to have Elizabeth Harmon on our side. And judging by the way she looks at you it won’t be difficult. We all have to make sacrifices for the greater good, but I don’t think it will inconvenience us all that much.”
But Vasily Borgov is already inconvenienced, and she had never truly understood how deep the well of obsession ran in her husband.- Language:
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26 May 2026
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26 May 2026
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Beth admits to Townes that her friendship with Borgov may not always have been entirely professional, and remembers the one time they decided to sleep together in Paris, three years after the Moscow Invitational, and how they agreed never to do it again.
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26 May 2026
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one vodka, two vodka, three vodka, floor by skeletondragon
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
11 Apr 2026
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The night before their rematch in Paris, Vasily Borgov finds Elizabeth Harmon drinking at the hotel bar.
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26 May 2026