Chess Legend Sues Netflix Over 'Sexist' Potrayal In 'Queen's Gambit'

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Georgian chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a $5 million defamation suit against Netflix, saying her depiction in the hit TV show 'The Queen's Gambit' was 'sexist and belittling'.

Georgian chess player and women’s world chess champion, Nona Gaprindashvili, plays a game of chess at the International Chess Congress in London on Dec. 30, 1964.Stanley Sherman / Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images file

It says the show falsely suggested that the former female world champion never played competitive chess with men, and states that Gaprindashvili, now 80, competed against dozens of top male players, beating 28 of them. The line in question comes in the series finale, when one character contemplates how Harmon has just defeated a male chess master in Moscow:

Netflix said in a statement that it has “only the utmost respect for Ms Gaprindashvili and her illustrious career, but we believe this claim has no merit and will vigorously defend the case.”

 

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