Michelle Tesoro was new to the game herself, but she treated the matches at the center of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit' as if she were cutting dialogue scenes, with the scripted moves ...

David Bradley spends most weekends engaged in intense chess matches with his 15-year-old daughter, Zoe. They stare at the board for hours and plot their next moves, consumed by a new shared pastime.

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 ...

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 ...

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"I could relate to Beth a lot," says 22-year-old female chess Grandmaster Dorsa Derakhshani of The Queen's Gambit Dorsa Derakhshani swore off watching Netflix until after she takes the MCATS – but the ...

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.

Fans of the Netflix series, including teenagers and the actress Beth Behrs, are flocking to the game because “women can be rock stars” in chess. The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess ...

The success of Netflix’s latest hit show has taken even one of the men behind the series by surprise. Set in the 1960s, “The Queen’s Gambit” follows the story of fictional child prodigy Beth Harmon, ...

The Queen's Gambit on Netflix won over tens of millions of viewers last year, triggering a national run on chess sets and making an instant icon out of its fictional protagonist. And that's not all it ...

The Soviet chess pioneer Nona Gaprindashvili sued Netflix on Thursday for defamation, seeking $5 million in damages over a false statement about her in the fictional series The Queen’s Gambit. The ...