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 ...

Amina Abakarova faces a possible lifetime ban and potential criminal proceedings, Russian authorities said, after the ...

Sally Rooney’s new novel is entitled Intermezzo — the old chess term for an unexpected move. The board game is a significant ...

Lisa Lane, the former U.S. Women’s Chess Champion believed to have inspired the 1983 novel (and Netflix series) The Queen’s ...

Unlike normal chess, in Really Bad Chess the piece allocations are randomized and not mirrored. Each day everyone on Puzzmo plays with the same piece configuration. Try to get a checkmate in the least ...

The Queen's Gambit creator on 'bringing sexy back to chess' and the series' long journey to TV How Anya Taylor-Joy mastered chess and her craft for Netflix's The Queen's Gambit Anya Taylor-Joy ...

To the average person, the movement of a pawn on a chess board has nothing to do with a tackle on a football field. However, ...

Addiction, sexism, psychosis and chess: The Queen’s Gambit brings some meaty themes to bear in exploring a young girl’s extraordinary talent in a brutally competitive, male-dominated world.

The Queen’s Gambit is a mini-TV series from 2020, directed by Scott Frank. It follows the story of orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon as she battles addiction during the Cold War era in her ...

THE Philippine Men’s squad recovered from back-to-back losses by posting a convincing win in the 8th round of the 45th Chess ...

He adds that he selected Lichess for this experiment as it allows developers to set up bot accounts to interact with chess in ...

BUDAPEST—When people use the phrase “snatching victory from the jaws of defeat” from now on, it better be to describe a feat ...