Ingenue to archetype, The Queen’s Gambit has all the right moves

Ingenue to archetype, The Queen’s Gambit has all the right moves

King, Queen, Bishop takes Pawn, Knight takes Rook, Double Attack, Checkmate — these are probably the most common terms when we think of chess. But when it comes to a movie plot, chess may be dull and uninteresting. That’s not the case in The Queen’s Gambit, a new Netflix original series about a young female chess prodigy, who’s determined to break into this male-dominated world of…