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 that for Evan is his passion and his profession. The attention that the show has garnered prompted Dylan McClain of the New York Times (December 10, 2020) to give Mr. Rabin a nod, and perhaps a slight boost, but that is hardly the full story.
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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 alone in her new passion. “The Queen’s Gambit,” about a troubled chess prodigy named Beth Harmon who is navigating the male-dominated tournament world, is a hit on Netflix. (62 million households watched at least some of the show, according to the streaming service.) That has ignited interest in the game, including among women and girls.
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How The Queen s Gambit is inspiring women to take up chess
11 Dec, 2020 04:00 AM
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The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess since watching The Queen s Gambit on Netflix. Photo / Jessica Lehrman, The New York Times
The actress Beth Behrs has been obsessed with chess since watching The Queen s 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 flocking to the game because women can be rock stars in chess. Actress Beth Behrs has a new obsession chess