Netflix’s new mini series, The Queen’s Gambit, is all about the success of fictional chess player Beth Harmon (played by Anna Taylor-Joy). The series has turned out to be a massive success and has scored such a great number of viewers, yet, for a short, scripted series. The waves of the massive popularity paced a lot further, however – chess itself has received tremendous amounts of profits.
An ongoing report from NPD states that transactions comprising of chess have spiked since the show surfaced in October. In the 21 days following the show’s delivery, chess boards transactions hinted a growth of 87% in the US, and transactions? of chess books jumped up an unfathomable 603%. They highlighted that during the early nine days on Netflix, US homes spent a total of 40.8 million hours seeing the little arrangement. To put this into perspective, pacing through the whole The Queen’s Gambit takes under seven hours.
“Deals involving chess books and chess sets, which had recently been level or declining for quite a long time, turned strongly towards success as the mainstream new arrangement picked up watchers,” said toy industry guide Juli Lennett. Chess spending was level in the 13 weeks paving the way to the mini series’s arrrival, in front of a major viewership.
Previous chess title holder Garry Kasparov gave an opinion as an expert on the Netflix show, and he stated to CNN that he accepted the show would do ponders for chess. “I hope this mini series will work superbly and will take the game further and I wish now to see a blast, since it assists with discrediting the rumor of the round of chess as something that could change you into a geek – or just to make you insane,” he said. So far the mini series has been recieving positive criticism from most viewers and looks like it has gathered quite a few fans.