As an avid chess player, the hit Netflix show “The Queen’s Gambit” struck a chord with University of Virginia first-year student Vivian Cao-Dao. But the scenes that really hit home came at the ...

In the summer of 1972, a world in the grip of the Cold War found its attention drawn to an unlikely face-off between the superpowers: the World Chess Championship match between Boris Spassky of the ...

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, ...

ST. LOUIS – Chess is a game that can be traced back over 1,000 years but it is suddenly one of the hottest games this holiday season. The newfound popularity of the game is being attributed to people ...

Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has been a huge hit, becoming the top-rated show on the platform practically everywhere. In the series, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Elizabeth Harmon, the charismatic orphan ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Queen's Gambit on Netflix is in some ways a show about chess for ...

It seems that chess clubs are becoming a quiet trend in London right now. While there are various theories as to why—such as the culture of "meeting people outdoors" that took root during the pandemic ...

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 ...

Netflix has just released a 7-part limited series, The Queen’s Gambit, written and directed by Scott Frank, who co-created the show with Allan Scott. The series stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, ...