NPR: chess sets https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=936738491 chess sets en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:50:34 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: chess sets https://www.npr.org/tags/936738491/chess-sets Can't Find A Chess Set? You Can Thank 'The Queen's Gambit' For That Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage. Fri, 20 Nov 2020 05:04:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/936732591/cant-find-a-chess-set-you-can-thank-the-queens-gambit-for-that https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/936732591/cant-find-a-chess-set-you-can-thank-the-queens-gambit-for-that The Queen's Gambit. It's success may lead to a shortage of chess sets this holiday season.'/>

Who'd have guessed that a centuries-old game would become 2020's hard-to-find, must-have toy? Sales spiked after the release of the hit Netflix show, and now toy analysts are warning of a shortage.

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