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 ...

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 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 ...

FPS Chess is, as its name suggests ... brandishing Holy Hand Grenades and gliding, on borrowed wings, into battle. And watch the queen, wielding a Gatling gun and hurling pieces with regal ...

As opening moves go, “The Queen’s Gambit” (a title that refers to chess, but also Beth’s rise in a male-dominated endeavor in the 1950s and ’60s) starts very, very slowly, beginning with ...

Thanks to The Queen’s Gambit, chess sets were as hard to find last year as the Playstation 5. The New York Times reported that in the weeks following the premiere of the Netflix limited series ...

Here we go -- time to kiss my kingdom goodbye. On the opposite side of the board is Marilyn Yalom, the author of "Birth of the Chess Queen: A History" (HarperCollins, $24.95). The book explores ...