Soviet chess legend files $5million defamation suit against over ...

Soviet chess legend files $5million defamation suit against over ...
Soviet chess legend files $5million defamation suit against Netflix over ...

A Soviet chess legend filed a $5million defamation lawsuit against Netflix for an episode of the Queen's Gambit that inaccurately states she never competed with men. 

Eighty-year-old Nona Gaprindashvili, from Georgia, is a pioneer of women's chess and the first woman to be awarded the grandmaster title in chest. 

She said the way she was portrayed in an episode of the Netflix hit series was sexist and diminishing.  

The Queen's Gambit follows the life of Beth Harmon, a gifted girl from the 1950s who grows up in a Kentucky Orphanage and goes on to become a chess legend.

The character, based on a 1983 novel and portrayed by renowned actress Anya Taylor-Joy, beats even the most impressive Russian players of the time. 

In the final episode of the series, Taylor's character plays against a fictional Russian man by the name of Viktor Laev in Moscow. 

In the scene, the announcer says: 'The only unusual thing about her [Taylor-Joy's character], 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 argues in the lawsuit that by the year the episode is set in, 1968, she had already competed against 59 men throughout her career - beating 28 of them simultaneously. 

The Queen's Gambit follows the life of Beth Harmon, a gifted girl from the 1950s who grows up in a Kentucky Orphanage and goes on to become a chess legend

 The Queen's Gambit follows the life of Beth Harmon, a gifted girl from the 1950s who grows up in a Kentucky Orphanage and goes on to become a chess legend

Eighty-year-old Nona Gaprindashvili, from Georgia is a pioneer of women's chess and the first woman to be awarded the grandmaster title in chest

Eighty-year-old Nona Gaprindashvili, from Georgia is a pioneer of women's chess and the first woman to be awarded the grandmaster title in chest

" class="c5" scrolling="no"

The suit also contends that Taylor's character is an Americanized and fictionalized version of the real-life female Georgian prodigy, and that Gaprindashvili is Georgian, not Russian. 

'The allegation that Gaprindashvili 'has never faced men' is manifestly false, as well as being grossly sexist and belittling,'

'She had competed against at least 59 male chess players (28 of them simultaneously in

read more from dailymail.....

PREV D-Day hero believed to have been the last surviving Lancaster bomber pilot from ... trends now
NEXT In news vacuum, rumours and concern swirl over Catherine mogaznewsen