Behind the shockingly rousing chess matches are the other components ... end of the show I would essentially have the silhouette of a white queen piece, I mean, I obviously like salivated ...

The Netflix series The Queen's Gambit follows a chess prodigy named Beth, played Anya Taylor-Joy, from her childhood in an orphanage through her spectacular career in chess. She learns in a ...

In the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit,” the character Benny Watts walks up to Beth Harmon, the show’s heroine, at the start of the 1967 United States Chess Championship. The location ...

A judge is upholding a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Netflix over the portrayal of a real-world female chess standout from the Soviet Union. Netflix; Woods/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty ...

Chess illustrations in old troubadour texts were code for intimacy -- chess pornography. “The queen sent out vibrations that sexualized the playing field,” writes Marilyn Yalom in “Birth of ...

The history of how the queen became the most powerful piece in chess. By Daniel Naroditsky The queen is known as the most powerful piece on the chess board, so the prospect of sacrificing it ...

In the game of chess, the queen has more freedom (mobility) on the chess board. In that sense, the queen is the most powerful piece. On the other hand, the king, that has more value because if you ...

In The Queen’s Gambit, Beth Harmon learns how to play from a janitor in her orphanage; the real chess player who inspired Queen of Katwe, Phiona Mutesi, learned the game from a missionary.

Their ongoing rivalry began this fall after the Toronto father and daughter began watching the “The Queen’s Gambit,” a Netflix miniseries about a female chess prodigy. Zoe had never played ...