An unorthodox chess move known as the "Bongcloud" has surged in popularity after reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen used it in a competitive match on March 15, amusing spectators and his ...

Linda Diaz, who won this year's Tiny Desk Contest at NPR Music, is a chess expert and international chess champion. She sat down to talk with us about the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit.

Chess is booming. A heady cocktail of Queen’s Gambit mania, pandemic boredom, and Twitch streaming has given the ancient board game more visibility than it’s had in a long, long time. It’s ...

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 chess scene from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone has been parodied on TikTok and turned into a meme for its over-the-top delivery. ... the Queen will take me”—became a trend on TikTok.

Nona Gaprindashvili, 80, is referenced in the show as not having ever played a male opponent — but she actually faced upwards of 59 men by the show’s 1968 setting.

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.

These schools reflect an increased interest in chess that began in 2020, credited in part to Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit.Chess hadn’t seen this level of popularity since the 1972 World ...

Perhaps that’s why The Queen’s Gambit, which is currently Netflix’s number one show in the US, is so addicting: It’s a dance.Suffice to say very few people watching understand chess at the ...

In place of the queen, the Persians had farzin, a male figure whose name roughly translates to counselor. As H.J.R. Murray pointed out in his 1913 book, “A History of Chess,” the farzin’s ...