How The Queen’s Gambit and the Pandemic Turned Into a Perfect Storm of Sales for Chess

In the summer of 1972, a world in the grip of the Cold War found its attention drawn to an unlikely face-off between the superpowers: the World Chess Championship match between Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union and America’s own Bobby Fischer. Over 21 games played in Reykjavik, Iceland, the cantankerous and unpredictable Fischer came…Read More