May 11
4 min read
A cinematic checkmate
Forget Disney’s princesses; the Disney heroine you want to see is a queen — of the chess board.
In the fall of 2020, with many Americans cooped up during the global pandemic, the Netflix series “The Queen’s Gambit” got a lot of attention, and brought a renewed attention to the game of chess. But at the time, there was a quite different chess-themed entertainment…
