018: The Queen's Gambit and The Netflix Effect
October 30th, The Queen's Gambit debuted on Netflix. Since then, 62 Million households have watched the show, chess set sales are spiking, the original book is a NY Times bestseller, newbies on chess dot com are up 5*, and Google searches on how to play chess have hit an all-time high. What can we learn from this? Let's explore...