Chess prodigy Beth Harmon, played by actress Anya Taylor-Joy, reads a chess pamphlet in Netflix's miniseries "The Queen Gambit." Netflix Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest ...

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Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day in 1996, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated IBM (NYSE:IBM) chess-playing ...

US chess champion Bobby Fischer and the two "K"s -- Garry Kasparov and Anatoli Karpov -- have co-written the modern history of the game, with a chapter devoted to East-West confrontation. In the 1970s ...

Chess has captured the imagination of humans for centuries due to its strategic beauty—an objective, board-based testament to the power of mortal intuition. Twenty-five years ago Wednesday, though, ...

Oliver Roeder is a journalist, author and games player. He is a former senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, where he covered the World Chess Championship and other gaming pursuits. The following is ...

Ever since he beat the greatest chess player who ever lived, Hans Niemann has been called a cheat. The 19-year-old’s surprising victory over Magnus Carlsen in St. Louis on September 4 led to ...

Fischer was an aggressive player said to have an IQ higher than that of Albert Einstein. Chess legends Garry Kasparov (right) and Anatoli Karpov play chess in Valencia, Spain, in September 2009, 25 ...

Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" has inspired a surge of interest in chess around the globe. The series follows the life of fictional chess prodigy Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the 1960s. The modern ...