How chess plays out at MIT
Credits: Photo: Howard Zhong Next image Chess has a long history at MIT that began decades before 62 million households tuned in to Netflix’s miniseries “The Queen's Gambit.” Though the show ranked as Netflix’s No. 1 in 63 countries within its first month, and sparked a global surge in the sale of chess sets and books, several members of MIT’s chess club say, with a laugh, that they haven’t seen it yet. Tyrone Davis III, a junior computer science major, a U.S. National Chess Master, and the president of MIT’s chess club, says he plans to watch t...
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