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 was a huge show for Netflix, not only giving viewers an epic drama about a young female champion’s journey through the world of professional Chess, but also spurring a wealth of ...
On Thursday, a California judge refused to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought by chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili against Netflix in September over what she said was a “manifestly false” ...
Asmodee has announced a new board game inspired by The Queen’s Gambit, that isn’t the actual board game the show prominently features. The Queen’s Gambit: The Board Game is a new programmed movement ...
Jennifer Shahade grew up in Philadelphia. Her father Mike was a master chess player and her mother Sally a professor at Drexel University, but at night the two would count cards at the blackjack ...
One rare nonpolarizing event in 2020 was the release of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” The miniseries about orphaned, struggling chess prodigy Beth Harmon not only captivated audiences, but it also ...
The Alaska Chess Federation is now a local chapter of US Chess and is using a grassroots approach to grow the game.
László Polgár is an educational psychologist who believes a child can excel at anything if pushed. He home schooled his three daughters as an experiment to prove this, pushing them to play chess ...
A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries ...