John Boylin, right, and Zach Hayden go over moves during the Huntington YMCA Chess Club’s Chess Fundamentals with Grandmaster Dariusz Swiercz camp on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at the Phil cline YMCA ...

Sales of chess sets and chess books have surged in the three weeks following the debut of Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit," according to a new report by the NPD Group. The miniseries, which premiered on ...

HUNTINGTON — The Huntington YMCA Chess Club is hosting “Chess Fundamentals,” what organizers say is the first and only youth chess camp in West Virginia, this week. This three-day chess camp, which ...

The centuries-old game of chess is suddenly cool — thanks to Netflix hit “The Queen’s Gambit.” In the three weeks after “The Queen’s Gambit” premiered, unit sales of chess sets jumped 87% in the U.S.

In other words, the chess master didn’t even know what pieces he had on the board, which is usually not something we associate with chess masters. It’s something we associate with people who don’t ...