Netflix had plenty of surprises in store surrounding their biggest properties during Friday's Geeked Week event. With video games the focus, the streamer took the time to announce a slew of new titles ...

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit is an adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel of the same name. It tells the fictional story of Beth Harmon, an orphaned chess prodigy who aspires to become the world’s ...

When thinking of chess, what normally comes to mind is a pair of players dressed in khakis, glasses, and sweater vests. But if you’ve recently seen Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, chess might seem a lot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After watching The Queen’s Gambit (multiple times), we couldn’t help but wonder if the popular Netflix series is the real deal.

In the new limited series The Queen’s Gambit, the only thing that's real is the chess. Child prodigy Beth Harmon is fictional. The orphanage she went to, the addiction to tranquilisers she develops ...

The Queen’s Gambit was a huge show for Netflix, not only giving viewers an epic drama about a young female champion’s journey through the world of professional Chess, but also spurring a wealth of ...

It’s been a big year for chess. The surging popularity of chess spurred by the success of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” is now spilling over from retail to websites and streaming services, adding to ...

The Netflix show about a female chess prodigy in the 1950s and ’60s is one of the best screen adaptations of the game yet. But there are a few wrong moves. By Dylan Loeb McClain This article contains ...

The new Netflix series, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, puts a self-destructive female player at the center of a male-dominated sport. But how to glean high drama from all that staring? By Alexis Soloski ...