Netflix latest hit show “The Queen’s Gambit” will speed up chess boom.
Netflix latest movie “The Queen’s Gambit” will speed up chess boom. Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a former chess world champion, acted as a consultant on the show to ensure authenticity.
Kasparov says “the success of “The Queen’s Gambit” will only further boost the game’s global appeal.”
“I think chess is on the rise now in America and around the world,” Kasparov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “But I think this series will do a great job promoting it further and I expect now a boom, because it helps to refute the image of the game of chess as something that could turn you into a nerd — or just to make you crazy. “To the contrary, we can see that chess helps Beth Harmon to overcome her weakness and her addiction. So chess helps to elevate her to new heights and I think that will encourage many, many more parents to look at chess more favorably and to push their kids in this direction, especially girls.”
The Queen’s Gambit is an American streaming television drama miniseries starring Anya Taylor-Joy based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name.
Creators: Scott Frank, Allan Scott
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Camp, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Matthew Dennis Lewis, Marcin Dorociński, Chloe Pirrie, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Rebecca Root, Janina Elkin, Christiane Seidel.
