Neither VFX supervisor John Mangia nor VFX producer Arissa Blasingame were chess masters before joining Netflix’s limited series “The Queen’s Gambit,” but they learned about the game once they were ...

After watching The Queen’s Gambit (multiple times), we couldn’t help but wonder if the popular Netflix series is the real deal. For example, does The Queen’s Gambit accurately reflect the game of ...

As the series opens, viewers meet a fatherless 8-year-old who survives a horrific car accident that kills her mom. Portrayed by Isla Johnson, young Beth Harmon winds up in the custody of a church-run ...

In late 2020, Netflix contributed to a huge boom for chess with the release of The Queen's Gambit, featuring Anya Taylor-Joy as chess prodigy Beth Harmon. Nearly three years on, the streamer has ...

Michelle Tesoro was new to the game herself, but she treated the matches at the center of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit' as if she were cutting dialogue scenes, with the scripted moves ...

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 flight ...

If Anya Taylor-Joy is on the cusp of major stardom -- with a "Mad Max" prequel in her future, and "The New Mutants" and "Emma" in her recent past -- "The Queen's Gambit" should advance her several ...

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If you’ve watched “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix, you know that it focuses on a girl who finds chess an outlet from a traumatic childhood. While girls discover chess for many reasons, two South ...

Based on a nearly 40 year old novel from Walter Tevis, author of The Color of Money, The Hustler and the 1976 David Bowie film of the same name, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Queen’s Gambit is a TV ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Queen’s Gambit chess opening puts constant pressure on the opponent and was a winning ...