Host Sue Perkins does her best to give it "warm, 'Bake-Off' vibes" and the 12 contestants have clearly been chosen for their ...

Why televised chess feels stale, mate, the leisurely joy of The White Lotus, Portillo in Portugal, and more. The week in TV reviewed b.

Maybe you were one of the many people who began playing chess because you watched The Queen’s Gambit during the pandemic. Or maybe you attempted to play chess and realized: oh yeah, chess is ...

A CHESS champion is out to prove the sport can still set pulses racing – after The Queen’s Gambit put it back on the grid. Caitlin Reid mastered the board game as a kid in a journey that ...

And he believes the sport can reach new audiences with the show, which follows the success of Netflix's chess drama The Queen's Gambit. He continued: "It's the ultimate mind sport. "The themes are ...

Job done. There’s Welsh Claire (“The Killer Queen”) and Scottish Caitlin (“The Smiling Assassin”), both of whom were taught chess by their dads and both of whom have stories about being ...

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky ... Most notably it inspired the Walter Tevis novel The Queen's Gambit, which was adapted into the acclaimed Netflix series in 2020. Spassky became world ...