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Queen s Gambit connections ripple across chess community
Jennifer Sweet
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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.
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John Torrie sets up the board for a lesson in the pre-Netflix version of The Queen s Gambit, in an appropriate location - Saint John s Queen Square. ....

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