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 ...

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

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, ...

Jennifer Bisset was a senior editor for CNET. She covered film and TV news and reviews. The movie that inspired her to want a career in film is Lost in Translation. She won Best New Journalist in 2019 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. CinemaBlend spoke to The Queen’s Gambit’s VFX Producer and Head Production at Chicken Bone FX ...

Chess.com, which tracks algorithms for fair play, closed over 18,000 accounts. "The recent wave of new players who have discovered their passion for chess on Chess.com since The Queen's Gambit's ...

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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 ...

When Ashley Priore was growing up, and playing chess professionally, she noticed the space was often hostile towards women. She set out to change that -- and make the world of chess more inclusive.