I picked up Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit in the kind of used bookstore where the shelves are too full, the air smells ...

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Chess has been my life ... with around 900,000 tuning in to watch. The Queen's Gambit proved a huge hit for Netflix when it aired back in 2021, scooping countless awards.