The Queen's Gambit

In The Queen’s Gambitepisode 2, “Exchanges,” Beth overhears Allston and Alma arguing over him taking the car on a business trip, with him remarking “Remember what the doctor said. Some…

Alma struggled with substance abuse in The Queen’s Gambit. In addition to taking pills to stabilize her mood — likely because of her unresolved trauma stemming from her biological child’s…

Tragically, Beth enters her hotel room after loosing against Vasily Borgov, only to discover the reason her mother never showed up at the important match: Alma was dead. The Queen’s…

Alma Wheatley’s (Marielle Heller) death in The Queen’s Gambit was shocking, but not completely unexpected — and was a necessary event for Beth’s overall character development. The Netflix series The…

After all, chess was immensely popular in the USSR in the 1950s and ’60s, when upwards of seven or eight of the world’s top ten classically-rated players came from the…

Surprisingly, he also gave the production some pointers on topics he wasn’t initially brought in for. In Episode 4, “The Middle Game,” he suggested adding a scene in an elevator…

For the original 1983 book of the same name, author Walter Tevis used his own experience and sought out the help of experts like Pandolfini to make sure the depictions…

Netflix’s the Queen’s Gambit has proven to be immensely popular, becoming the streaming service’s most watched miniseries of all-time. In addition to gripping, novelistic storytelling, the show also benefited from…

At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s a young American chess prodigy called Bobby Fischer single-handedly took on a Soviet chess machine that had dominated the game…

Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” is the most accurate portrayal of chess in Hollywood, but it doesn’t go far enough to depict the sexism ingrained in the culture of the sport,…