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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 ...

Queen's Gambit sent the world chess mad but Rematch proved that in the AI era there could be more than one series about the ancient game. Federation Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in ...

"In the mid-century players eschewed the Queen's Gambit," Feldman said. "There didn't seem to be anything rational about this choice. In a large database of chess games by master-level players, the ...

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At Develop Brighton last week, Jamie Brayshaw, Ripstone's head of partnerships, gave a talk on how the studio convinced Netflix to let them develop a Queen's Gambit title – the developer's first ...

Pandemic boredom and a Netflix mini-series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” added to the game’s sudden popularity. But Chess.com was also plotting its own moves. Danny Rensch, left, chief chess officer of Chess ...

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The extraordinary success of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit has brought renewed attention to chess, at a level not seen in the U.S. since the prominence of Bobby Fischer decades ago. It has also ...