The release of “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix last year made us all want to live in the 1960s chess world Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) inhabited. Now, we’re learning a bit more about how costume ...

It was obvious that The Queen’s Gambit Chess was going to be a chess game, given the subject matter. However, Netflix released a longer trailer about the digital board game to give players a better ...

The Queen's Gambit on Netflix is in some ways a show about chess for those who know nothing about chess. However, for the players of the ancient game, there are plenty of chess references that help ...

Ashley Lynn Priore has a quick response when I ask her what she thinks of the hit show The Queen’s Gambit. “We were here first!” she says, only half-jokingly. Priore, 21, is the founder, president, ...

In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at the Moscow Invitational. The next day she impulsively skips her flight ...

Chess and fashion have not historically intersected, but a popular Netflix show is resetting the board. By Danielle Braff Beth Harmon was facing a “sudden death” of sorts. The fictional chess star ...

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.

The list of those who didn’t binge Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” late last year is a lot shorter than those who did. And to make sure its leading lady, Anya Taylor-Joy, was believable as a chess ...

Chess aficionados know that the game is one of exponential complexity. The first three moves yield more than 9 million possible board positions and there are nearly 319 billion possible ways to play ...

The evolution of the chess queen finds a parallel in rural India, where the “Checkmate Betul” initiative, launched by US-based Avika Shukla, offers free, structured chess training to girls with no ...