Netflix Latest Hit Film The Queens Gambit Will Speed Up Ch

Netflix latest hit show "The Queen's Gambit" will speed up chess boom. Grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a former chess world champion, acted as a consultant on the show to ensure authenticity. Kasparov says the success of "The Queen's Gambit" will only further boost the game's global appeal.

"I think chess is on the rise now in America and around the world," Kasparov told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "But I think this series will do a great job promoting it further and I expect now a boom, because it helps to refute the image of the game of chess as something that could turn you into a nerd - or just to make you crazy. "To the contrary, we can see that chess helps Beth Harmon to overcome her weakness and her addiction. So chess helps to elevate her to new heights and I think that will encourage many, many more parents to look at chess more favorably and to push their kids in this direction, especially girls."