In late 2020, as The Queen’s Gambit was conquering Netflix in France, Sandra Benhamou and her husband, Michael, were holed up in their Left Bank apartment, thinking about chess. Why didn’t Paris have the chess parlor it deserved? Someplace unpretentious, like the Chess Forum in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village—two-seat tables and pickup games that ran late into the evening?

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Persons: Sandra Benhamou, Michael Organizations: Netflix, Bank, Chess Locations: France, Paris, Greenwich