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The World Chess Hall of Fame (WCHOF), the leading chess cultural center in the country, today announced: "Clash for the Crown: Celebrating Chess Champions," an all-new exhibition opening on April 11, 2024, which is being held in conjunction with the.
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“The Queen’s Gambit”, a Netflix miniseries about an orphaned chess prodigy during the Cold War Era, took home two awards in the 2021 Golden Globe Awards Sunday night (Monday, March 1 in Manila).
The seven-episode miniseries bagged one of the top awards that include Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. Its main star Anya Taylor-Joy, who played chess prodigy Beth Harmon, also won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, beating Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Shira Haas.
Former Women’s World Chess Champion Susan Polgar congratulated Taylor-Joy and the whole series production for the awards in a social media post while Judit Polgar, generally considered as the strongest female chess player of all time, showed her support to the series in a Twitter post a day before the Awards Night.