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, ...

Susan Polgar would go to the ends of the earth to raise awareness of the game of chess. There was the event in Florida where she played 326 matches simultaneously, setting a world record. And there ...

A senior scholar at Stanford's Institute for Women and Gender who has written extensively on women's history, Yalom (A History of the Wife; etc.) sees the rise of female power throughout the centuries ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Netflix’s smash 2020 miniseries The Queen’s Gambit told a fictional tale of how Beth Harmon, a chess ...

Judit Polgár won the very first chess tournament she ever played in. She was 6 years old. The Hungarian-born prodigy's impressive rise to chess stardom, which included becoming the world's top-ranked ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Queen of Chess, the Judit Polgar Story, is now on Netlfix When I sat down with Judit Polgar ...

Michelle Tesoro was new to the game herself, but she treated the matches at the center of the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit' as if she were cutting dialogue scenes, with the scripted moves ...