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“Chess,” Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov says in the first few minutes of Netflix’s new documentary, “is psychological warfare.” It’s a bold statement — one that becomes even more interesting when, ...

For a sport that prides itself on logic, chess has spent decades clinging to one of the least logical traditions of all: separating women from men. There are no tackles to absorb, no finish lines to ...

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In the closing sequence of “The Queen’s Gambit,” the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at the Moscow Invitational. The next day she impulsively skips her flight ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

In ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ chess doubles as a game of life for protagonist Beth Harmon. Netflix If this use of chess to represent life feels familiar, it is largely thanks to the medieval world. As I ...