Beth Harmon raises chess sales indicators after her series Queen's Gambit
Global star Anya Taylor, who embodied Beth Harmon in the series Queen's Gambit, brought attention to the game of chess, as some foreign reports revealed the high rates of chess selling again on the streets of the European continent after the presentation of the first season of the drama series that narrated the era of the boom of the game In the sixties of the last century.
According to indications revealed by Variety, the show of "The Queen's Maneuver", in which Harmon starred in her series, contributed to raising the indicators of selling chess by 87% in the United States of America, in addition to the increase in sales of chess books by 603%, according to the research company NPD Group. The rally comes after years of steady or negative growth in that game and the popular series Queen's Gambit is the main reason for the rise.
Taylor played the character of Beth Harmon in the first season of the series, who is a chess prodigy, an orphan from Kentucky who moved to live in an orphanage there to get acquainted with the game with the house cleaning worker, to play her first games at the age of nine years and then continue to play and harvest Kentucky and then the United States of America championship to face the veteran Russian record-holder in the game, ending its game with the Queen's maneuver, which is one of the oldest known chess openings.
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