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Queen's Gambit connections ripple across chess community Jennifer Sweet © Mike Heenan/CBC Seven-year-old Andreas Doemer of Saint John is the current national champion in his age group. The wildly popular video drama series The Queen's Gambit has created a tsunami of interest in the game of chess. And New Brunswick has definitely caught the wave.   A beacon of the provincial chess scene has been inundated with phone calls and emails and has a personal connection to the woman the show seems to be based on. © Mike Heenan/CBC John Torrie sets up the board for a lesson in ...

7-year-old N.B. chess prodigy relates to popularity of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ The popular Netflix series But New Brunswick has a prodigy of its own, seven-year-old Andreas Doemer who lives in Saint John. "It a fun brain sport," said the Grade 2 student. Andreas even recently tied an international master from Jamaica, said his mother Raegan Deomer. She said her son is obsessed with the game. "My husband has to put on a stopwatch when [Andreas] goes to bed to read his books ... the timer goes off and it is time to stop the chess reading," she said. The young lad, who was just four-and-a-ha...