Follow the intense tournament game where a chess master counters the Alien Gambit, sacrifices strategically, and finally ...

The Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit has proved an unexpected smash hit in a world shut in by COVID-19. In fact, Netflix says the show, about a girl, Beth Harmon, raised in an orphanage who becomes a ...

It was obvious that The Queen’s Gambit Chess was going to be a chess game, given the subject matter. However, Netflix released a longer trailer about the digital board game to give players a better ...

When thinking of chess, what normally comes to mind is a pair of players dressed in khakis, glasses, and sweater vests. But if you’ve recently seen Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, chess might seem a lot ...

Ashley Lynn Priore has a quick response when I ask her what she thinks of the hit show The Queen’s Gambit. “We were here first!” she says, only half-jokingly. Priore, 21, is the founder, president, ...

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Netflix had plenty of surprises in store surrounding their biggest properties during Friday's Geeked Week event. With video games the focus, the streamer took the time to announce a slew of new titles ...

In late 2020, Netflix contributed to a huge boom for chess with the release of The Queen's Gambit, featuring Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon. Nearly three years on, the streamer has ...

The day after Netflix’s ode to fluidity “The Queen’s Gambit” premiered, Google searches for the term “chess” spiked to nearly double what they had been the year prior. There had already been what Levy ...