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Chess, which can be played online without any contact, is a hobby that is essentially perfect for lockdown. dpa/Felix Koenig Chess is enjoying a moment. Between the pandemic keeping everyone at home and a popular new Netflix series, the nearly 1,500-year-old game is attracting players young and old. “The longer the pandemic lasts, the more people want to occupy themselves elsewhere, ” says Achim Schmitt, president of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chess Federation, in south-west Germany. And as luck would have it, chess, which can be played online without any contact, is a hobby that is essentially perfect for lockdown. “Online chess is definitely being played much more than a year ago, ” says Ullrich Krause, president of the German Chess Federation. ....
If you haven’t heard already, The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix is a phenomenal success. After its release last October, it became the No. 1 Netflix show in 63 countries and has prompted meteoric increases in the sales of chess sets and books. At this year’s Golden Globe Awards, it won for best limited series or TV movie and its star, Anya Taylor-Joy, won for best actress in the same category. The show is largely set in the 1960s and recreates a captivating esthetic from that decade. The hero is Beth Harmon, a young chess prodigy who, despite time in an orphanage and an addiction to prescription drugs, enters and eventually conquers the world of chess one that is inhabited entirely by men. ....
Netflix s The Queen s Gambit getting adapted into a stage musical ANI | Updated: Mar 09, 2021 11:49 IST Washington [US], March 9 (ANI): What s in store for the award-winning Netflix series The Queen s Gambit ? A musical. The hit series may become a musical as production company Level Forward has acquired theatrical stage rights to Walter Tevis book The Queen s Gambit , which served as the basis for the miniseries. As per Variety, Tevis also wrote The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth , both of which became films and, in the case of The Man Who Fell to Earth , a stage show. Level Forward, which produced popular shows like Jagged Little Pill and the revival of Oklahoma! , has not announced a creative team or casting details for the upcoming project yet. ....