A picture shows chessboards made by Rechapados Ferrer in La Garriga near Barcelona. Photos: AFP
The company usually makes around 20,000 chessboards annually, but has already received orders for more than 40,000 so far this year, thanks both to the Netflix series and renewed interest in board games during lockdown.Making chessboards requires skilled craftsmanship. Although retired, he often visits the factory and can still remember how his parents made the first chessboards in"a small room, stitching and trimming the strips of wood".The company initially only worked with a nearby maker of chess pieces, but eventually expanded to sell their products across Spain and then the world.
In the nail-biting finale, chess prodigy Beth Harmon goes to Moscow to take on Russian world champion Vasily Borgov in a match played on an elegant black-framed board with a decorative red-and-yellow border. When Ferrer heard about it, he was excited, but it wasn't the first time that their boards had featured in films or TV series."Demand is crazy. We're getting a huge amount of emails and we can't answer them all."
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