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 year: 2015. The place: Sydney, Australia. Irina Berezina stands at the front of the classroom, facing 25 boarding school boys. They stare back at her. Whisper. Eyebrows jag into frowns. It’s clear ...

Ashley Lynn Priore has a quick response when I ask her what she thinks of the hit show The Queen’s Gambit. “We were here first!” she says, only half-jokingly. Priore, 21, is the founder, president, ...

Sunday Sports ProfileMEET a 28-year-old Daisy Simenda, the new Women Fide Master (WFM) in the country and the Copperbelt Chess Queen.LONG before today’s generation of players began fighting for ...

When Ashley Priore was growing up, and playing chess professionally, she noticed the space was often hostile towards women. She set out to change that -- and make the world of chess more inclusive.

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“This is as it should be,” Steinitz wrote, “and we hope that this example will be followed by other chess societies, it being evident that, if we engage the queens of our hearts for the queens of our ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Queen's Gambit on Netflix is in some ways a show about chess for ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: 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 ...