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 ...

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, ...

It was on this week in history that a world-class champion chess player lost a match to a computer in a tournament. On May 11, 1997 Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov resigned after 19 moves in a game ...

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 ...