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By Rachel S. Kovacs | February 18, 2021 Those viewers who have enjoyed “The Queen’s Gambit” or reviewed it for others’ pleasure have been captivated with the protagonist’s story, but perhaps more so with the mystique of the chess board that enraptures casual observers and devotees of the game. Evan Rabin would confirm that although the Netflix miniseries is not the primary driver for the growth of his chess business during the pandemic, it has piqued interest in a game ...

Updated December 14, 2020 10:16 p.m. EST By Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times Actress Beth Behrs has a new obsession — chess — and the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” is to blame. Her obsession even got her into trouble on the set of the CBS show “The Neighborhood,” where she plays Gemma Johnson. “They yelled at me at work yesterday because I was hiding my phone under my script,” she said. “I should have been acting and I was playing on Chess.com.” Behrs is hardly...

How The Queens Gambit is inspiring women to take up chess 11 Dec, 2020 04:00 AM 5 minutes to read The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess since watching The Queens Gambit on Netflix. Photo / Jessica Lehrman, The New York Times The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess since watching The Queens Gambit on Netflix. Photo / Jessica Lehrman, The New York Times New York Times By: Dylan Loeb McClain Fans of the Netflix series, including teenagers and the actress Beth Behrs, are f...