Queen's Gambit

Queen's Gambit
Information
Owner(s)	Robert Queen (formerly; deceased) Moira Queen (formerly; deceased)
Frequent user(s)	Robert Queen (formerly; deceased) Oliver Queen (formerly) Sara Lance (formerly) Dave Hackett (formerly; deceased)
Function	Yacht (destroyed)

The Queen's Gambit, also referred to as simply the Gambit, was a yacht originally owned by Robert Queen. It sank during a heavy storm at sea in 2007 due to being sabotaged by Malcolm Merlyn.

The Queen's Gambit's remains had been located under the sea 2,100 miles east of Sydney, Australia, at the coordinates 23°15.5'S 174°43.6'W, 15,433 feet below the surface.

History

Robert Queen decided to take the Queen's Gambit to China in his attempt to prevent the Undertaking. When Malcolm Merlyn learned of this from Frank Chen, he sabotaged the ship using C2 explosives. Malcolm knew that the Queen's Gambit would be heading into a storm and used the weather as a cover to hide the true cause of the yacht's fate.

The Gambit was secretly salvaged in 2009 by Moira Queen, who discovered that it was sabotaged. She hid the remains in a warehouse using $2.6 million taken from Queen Consolidated, under the name "Tempest". Walter Steele, whilst investigating the money transaction, later found out where the Gambit was hidden and put in storage. Malcolm later ordered the remains to be destroyed.

Appearances

Arrow

Season 1 "Pilot" (flashbacks) "Honor Thy Father" (mentioned) "An Innocent Man" "Damaged" (mentioned) "Year's End" (mentioned) "Burned" (mentioned) "Trust but Verify" (mentioned) "Vertigo" (mentioned) "Betrayal" (mentioned) "The Odyssey" (mentioned) "The Huntress Returns" (mentioned) "Salvation" (mentioned) "The Undertaking" (flashbacks) "Sacrifice" (mentioned) Season 2 "City of Heroes" (mentioned) "Crucible" (mentioned) "League of Assassins" (flashbacks) "Keep Your Enemies Closer" (mentioned) "The Scientist" (mentioned) "Blind Spot" (mentioned) "Heir to the Demon" (pictured) "Time of Death" (mentioned) "The Promise" (mentioned) "Suicide Squad" (mentioned) "City of Blood" (mentioned) Season 3 "Sara" (mentioned) "Corto Maltese" (mentioned) "The Climb" (mentioned) "Uprising" (indirectly mentioned) "Nanda Parbat" (indirectly mentioned) "Public Enemy" (mentioned) "The Fallen" (mentioned) Season 4 "Restoration" (mentioned) "Haunted" (mentioned) "Canary Cry" (mentioned) Season 5 "Invasion!" (flashbacks) "Lian Yu" (mentioned) Season 6 "Fundamentals" (mentioned) Season 7 "Level Two" (mentioned) "Past Sins" (mentioned) "Inheritance" (mentioned/blueprints pictured) "Confessions" (mentioned)

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Season 1

• "Last Refuge" (mentioned)

Season 2

• "Invasion!" (mentioned)
• "The Chicago Way" (flashbacks)
• "Aruba" (mentioned)

The Flash

Season 3

• "Invasion!" (mentioned)

Comics

Arrow

• "Time's Arrow" (flashbacks)
• "Fathoms"
• "Limbo" (hallucination/flashback)
• "Lapse" (mentioned)

Trivia

• In the episode "Pilot"​, Tommy Merlyn mentions that (by his rough estimate) Oliver hasn't had sex in 1,839 days since he went missing. 1,839 days is equal to 5 years, 1 week, and 6 days. Since most Arrow episodes take place in real time, we can assume this episode takes place on October 10, 2012 (the day it aired), which means the Gambit probably sank on or around September 27, 2007.
• It was later revealed that Malcolm Merlyn had purchased the bombs he used to destroy the Gambit from the Ninth Circle. Robert Queen's illegitimate daughter, Emiko Adachi, had known beforehand what was going to happen. She went to her father to talk to him and ask for help, and probably intended to warn him about the ship, but he didn't, and turned her away yet again, so she never warned him.