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I came across a similar Benko Gambit that was played by Guyana’s Maurice Broomes against Guillermo A Estevez of Cuba during the Caribbean Chess Championships of 1975.
The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.
On Thursday, a California judge upheld a $5M defamation lawsuit filed by Soviet-era chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili against the streaming service for her allegedly “grossly sexist and ...
In the closing sequence of "The Queen's Gambit," the chess-playing heroine, Beth Harmon, defeats her archrival Vasily Borgov at the Moscow Invitational. The next day she impulsively skips her ...
There’s no doubt the Netflix series, "The Queen’s Gambit", made chess cool. The fictional tale of chess phenom Beth Harmon, who was launched on the road to stardom by school janitor Mr ...
Jolene, a supporting character in chess drama "The Queen's Gambit," is relegated to a familiar and unsettling trope.
Anya Taylor-Joy shines as a troubled chess prodigy in Netflix's seven-episode period miniseries 'The Queen's Gambit.' By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Frank wrote and directed the ...
IM Lawrence Trent is carving out a career as an online chess commentator, while he seeks the GM title. To that end, he has noticeably broadened his repertoire to include the Benko Gambit, in which ...