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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 ...

In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at the Moscow Invitational. The next day she impulsively skips her flight ...

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 ...

The Queen’s Gambit was a huge show for Netflix, not only giving viewers an epic drama about a young female champion’s journey through the world of professional Chess, but also spurring a wealth of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Based on a nearly 40 year old novel from Walter Tevis, author of The Color of Money, The Hustler and the 1976 David Bowie film of the same name, The Man Who Fell to Earth ...

A version of this story about “The Queen’s Gambit” first appeared in the December issue of TheWrap magazine. Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy played by Anya Taylor-Joy in Netflix’s breakout hit “The ...

The question for editor Michelle Tesoro: What is too much chess? The answer: Play the faces more than the chess. The enormous popularity of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” limited series took editor ...

"I could relate to Beth a lot," says 22-year-old female chess Grandmaster Dorsa Derakhshani of The Queen's Gambit Dorsa Derakhshani swore off watching Netflix until after she takes the MCATS – but the ...

Izak Bulten has written for Listverse, ScreenRant, CBR, TheTalko, TheGamer, GameRant, and The Art Of Puzzles. In his free time, he enjoys animating, playing board/video games, and talking about movies ...

“The Queen’s Gambit” is being adapted as a musical for the theater stage, as the company Level Forward has acquired the rights to Walter Tevis’ book. The acclaimed Netflix miniseries about the story ...

If you’ve watched “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix, you know that it focuses on a girl who finds chess an outlet from a traumatic childhood. While girls discover chess for many reasons, two South ...