Number of the Day

The Queen’s Gambit Spikes Chess Sales, by the Numbers

The Netflix miniseries has sparked a new surge of interest in the centuries-old game

Marker Editors
Marker
Published in
2 min readNov 27, 2020

--

1,048% — Year-over-year increase in sales of chess sets at Goliath Games following the release of Netflix’s The Queens Gambit
Photo illustration, source: Jani Kaasinen/Unsplash

1,048%: That’s how much November sales of chess sets from games maker Goliath Games increased over last year, following the release of the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit

--

--