The new Netflix series, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, puts a self-destructive female player at the center of a male-dominated sport. But how to glean high drama from all that staring? By Alexis Soloski ...

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 is centered around chess. So for creator/director Scott Frank, it was important to make every game look and feel as authentic as possible. “They’re always real moves and it’s always ...

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A seven-hour drama series about chess players? It might sound more like a punishment at first than a pleasure. But The Queen's Gambit — now streaming on Netflix; I've seen all seven episodes — does ...

Located near a hair salon and a pediatrician’s office in a plain-vanilla retail center in Pineville, it’s an unlikely place for a nerve center of the global chess world. But the Charlotte Chess Center ...

If you watched The Queen’s Gambit in 2020 and thought to yourself wow, I wish I could play the game Beth Harmon plays and be as totally awesome at is as she is, and also look just as great as Anya ...

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 ...

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