The wildly popular video drama series The Queen's Gambit has created a tsunami of interest in the game of chess. And New Brunswick has definitely caught the wave. A beacon of the provincial chess ...

It only took two days after its launch for the chess drama The Queen's Gambit to make it into Netflix's top 10 most-viewed series — and it hasn't budged since.

But The Queen’s Gambit has pushed interest in the game to a whole new level. During the first week of November, more than 500, 000 people became members of Chess.com, he said.

The Lyndhurst, New Jersey, resident played chess while she was younger but had lost interest in the game until she saw “The Queen’s Gambit.” Now she plays with her father and friends constantly.

DL Townes v Beth Harmon, Queen’s Gambit, 2020 (See diagram) Chess-playing websites all credit a pair of factors for the phenomenal growth in activity over the last two years: the worldwide ...

The chess world has been abuzz about The Queen's Gambit, a coming-of-age story about a chess prodigy, based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name. "Oh, it was interesting," said Elman.