David Bradley spends most weekends engaged in intense chess matches with his 15-year-old daughter, Zoe. They stare at the board for hours and plot their next moves, consumed by a new shared pastime.

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The Netflix series is based on the 1983 novel by the same name, which was written by Walter Tevis. Chess experts overall have praised the show as more believable than other on-screen adaptations.

Producer William Horberg praised Netflix for taking a chance on the chess drama: "You trusted the filmmakers." By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards Netflix becomes the first streamer ever to ...

Russ Boswell has been playing games ever since he was old enough to hold a controller. He started his love for gaming with the NES and Super Mario Bros. specifically. Over the years, he has collected ...

In 1884, the American star chess player Paul Morphy was found dead in his bathtub, at the age of forty-seven. “The pride and the sorrow of chess is gone forever,” the Austrian chess master Wilhelm ...

In a rare moment of chest-pumping for the streamer, Netflix NFLX announced gargantuan figures for its limited series, The Queen’s Gambit. (For those of you who don’t know what a “limited series” is, ...

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“The Queen’s Gambit,” the story of a chess prodigy that was a streaming smash for Netflix, may become a musical. Level Forward, has acquired the theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis’ novel “The ...

After Travis Head had hogged the attention in the build-up, fellow opener Jake Weatherald emerged from his shadow with a ...