Netflix for $5million over a line in The Queen’s Gambit.In the show’s finale, a line compares the accomplishments of fictional chess player Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) to Gaprindashvili – stating she’s never played chess against men.A character remarks: “Elizabeth Harmon’s not at all an important player by their standards.
The only unusual thing about her, really, is her sex. And even that’s not unique in Russia. There’s Nona Gaprindashvili, but she’s the female world champion and has never faced men.”Gaprindashvili has filed a defamation lawsuit (via Deadline) stating this is entirely false, and that she had competed against 59 male chess players, 28 of them simultaneously in one game, along with ten Grandmasters, by the year 1968 when.
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