Rematch co-writer Yan England was nervous. “We suddenly started hearing about The Queen’s Gambit and I was like, ‘Woah, that’s about chess’,” he tells Deadline as he begins the story.

Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Nona Gaprindashvili is pictured playing at the International Chess Congress in London in 1964 The Queen's Gambit is based on the 1983 novel by Walter ...