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Netflix miniseries "Queen's Gambit" planned

5/9/2019 – Netflix is ​​planning a mini-series about a chess player. "Queen's Gambit" takes place during the Cold War. An orphan, Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy), grows up in difficult conditions and discovers her chess talent. She tries to get to the top while battling her own demons and the best Russian grandmasters. After a novel by Walter Tevis, the series still has no release date, but is expected in 2020.

Watch the University Challenge on Monday

12/18/2015 – It is one of the oldest quiz shows, pitting teams of students from two British colleges against each other, with questions that are anything but trivial or easy. There is no prize money involved – the participants compete solely for the honour of representing their alma mater. Why do we tell you all this? Because for the first time in over a thousand shows a chess grandmaster is involved.

Norwegian TV and the Chess Olympiad

8/22/2014 – With the chess explosion in Norway, and the Chess Olympiad just around the corner, NRK, the largest TV network in Norway was stuck wondering how they would approach the idea of live broadcasts for multiple boards, since what is fine in a browser might not be suitable for national TV. Solve it they did, broadcast it they did, and they published a detailed article on how they did it.
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