Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Queen of Chess, an inspiring new documentary that\u2019s set to debut at the Sundance Film Festival. It looks like a powerful deep dive into one of the most incredible true stories the chess world has ever seen.<\/p>\n
The documentary comes from acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy, whose past work includes Downfall: The Case Against Boeing and The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari. This time, Kennedy turns her lens toward Hungarian chess prodigy Judit Polg\u00e1r, a chess player who didn\u2019t just break barriers but bulldozed through them.<\/p>\n
The film follows Polg\u00e1r\u2019s rise as she sets her sights on conquering the male-dominated world of international chess. Her ultimate goal was taking on reigning world champion Garry Kasparov, a rivalry that stretched over more than a decade and helped reshape the sport\u2019s deeply entrenched culture. <\/p>\n
Polg\u00e1r\u2019s journey is so legendary that it\u2019s widely seen as real-life inspiration for The Queen’s Gambit, the hit chess drama starring Anya Taylor-Joy.<\/p>\n
Sundance describes the film: \u201cQueen of Chess chronicles their historic, long-running battle of the sexes, punctuated with a dynamic visual aesthetic, a rich archive, and a rousing girl-power soundtrack.”<\/p>\n
The official synopsis digs even deeper saying: \u201cIn 1989, before Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Queen’s Gambit, a 12-year-old Hungarian prodigy named Judit Polg\u00e1r embarked on a David-and-Goliath mission to become the top chess player of her generation, which meant going up against men who thought that women \u2014 nevermind young girls like her \u2014 could never be truly great at chess. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn particular, Judit had her eyes set on besting top-ranked Garry Kasparov, whom some consider the greatest player of all time. What followed is a 13-year saga of thrilling wins, petulant opponents, dramatic showdowns, and surprising friendships as Judit charged toward her goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
After its Sundance debut, Netflix will roll out Queen of Chess worldwide on February 6th, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Queen of Chess, an inspiring new documentary that\u2019s set to debut at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-117358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}