The Queen’s Gambit Gives Chess Sets a King-Sized Sales Boost this Christmas

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My dad taught me how to play chess when I was 8 years old.

We had an old combination chess-and-checkers set with a beat up, foldable board, an incomplete set of checkers, and a bag of plastic chess pieces. I don’t remember learning to play checkers — I think I picked it up from kids at school or maybe my grandpa. But I remember seeing…