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Skewering antisemites and sexists, a chess queen recounts her journey to the top

In new memoir, 'Rebel Queen,' Hungarian Jewish grandmaster Susan Polgar details attacking the forces that tried, and failed, ...

Double queen sacrifice drama: P Harikrishna wins, Surya Shekhar Ganguly bows out at Chess World Cup

India's P. Harikrishna secured a swift 21-move victory in the Chess World Cup, advancing to the third round with a brilliant ...

Chess World Cup: Pentala Harikrishna’s queen sacrifice variation, a 9-year-old ploy, gets him a win

Harikrishna’s game had seen a jaw-dropping ploy from the Indian to let his queen, the most powerful piece on the board, be ...
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Queen's Gambit Chess spinoff game announced on Netflix Geeked Week

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 ...
Publishers Weekly

BIRTH OF THE CHESS QUEEN: A History

A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries ...
Game Rant

Netflix Settles Queen's Gambit Lawsuit With Chess Grandmaster

Netflix has put an end to the trial procedures started by Nona Gaprindashvili's nearly a year ago, reaching a settlement agreement on the defamation lawsuit originating from their hit miniseries The ...
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Ugandan Chess Queen

Our guests today were Phinoa Mutesi and Robert Katende whose story is detailed in THE QUEEN OF KATWE: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Crothers. Crother's account of ...
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The Queen's Gambit: Chess Trailer Teaches You to Play Like Beth Harmon

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 ...
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Chess: D Gukesh held by Svane; Arjun Erigaisi beats Vokhidov

Erigaisi, playing with white pieces, began with a Queen-pawn opening and proceeded to crush Vokhidov in a one-sided affair ...
Polygon

Wow! Netflix made the game from The Queen’s Gambit

If you watched The Queen’s Gambit in 2020 and thought to yourself wow, I wish I could play the game Beth Harmon plays and be as totally awesome at is as she is, and also look just as great as Anya ...
Android Police

The Queen's Gambit Chess is a rewarding board game that also appeals to fans of the show

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

How Four of Broadway’s Biggest Shows, ‘Chess,’ ‘Ragtime,’ ‘The Queen of Versailles’ and ‘Waiting for Godot,’ All Came Together

A Broadway opening often marks the culmination of a years-long journey for the collaborators who have created a show, whether ...