RT
September 17, 2021
A chess icon is suing Netflix for being “grossly sexist” by including a line in a hit series claiming that she “never played men”, launching a $5 million lawsuit that also takes issue with being depicted as Russian.
Nona Gaprindashvili, the fifth women’s world chess champion, has filed a lawsuit against the platform over a reference to her in top show ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, featuring a fictional prodigy who goes on to beat Russia’s finest players in Moscow during the 1960s.
Now 80, Gaprindashvili has taken exception to a part in the final part of the series that describes the “only unusual thing about her” being her gender.