It’s been a year full of surprises—some of them pleasant, some of them not—and you can add chess’ resurgence in popularity to the list of the former. Thanks to the insane success of Netflix’s chess-and-pills drama The Queen’s Gambit, which is now the streamer’s most-watched scripted limited series, people are […]
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There’s a COVID chess boom on, and Netflix’s ‘The Queens Gambit’ is fanning the fervor
Other sites like chess.com allow players anywhere to play each other from their own homes: “The ability to play online chess with people a world away is one of the driving forces behind the recent chess boom,” said Toliver. Nick Barton, director of business development at chess.com, said the site […]