CHECKMATE

Ready your pawns for battle ahead of the new Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit. Peaky Blinders’ Anya TaylorJoy stars in this Cold War-era coming-of-age drama as Beth, a glamorous young woman who was left at a Kentucky orphanage when she was a child and struggles with addiction as a young adult—but also happens to be a chess prodigy. Fuelled by obsession, Beth becomes determined to take over the male-dominated world of competitive chess. Catch it when it starts streaming on October 23.