Chess as a Coping Mechanism

Who would have guessed that Chess would become a top e-sport in 2020?

The Queen’s Gambit Netflix series catapulted the ancient sport into the zeitgeist, but it also coincided with a pandemic where everyone is at home and an era when technology made it more accessible to play and learn about than even ten years ago. Chess was always obscured by its complexity. It was something to be studied in books. It was the…