'Lady's Gambit': Legendary chess player Nona Gaprindashvili sues Netflix for falsifying her story
Nona Gaprindashvili, pioneer and historical chess champion, has sued Netflix after observing that in a passage from 'Lady's Gambit', the Emmy-winning miniseries, she is mentioned by name and it is claimed that she had never faced men, when he had done it often.
In the final episode of 'Lady's Gambit', the prestigious Netflix miniseries, an announcer comments on a tournament in Moscow and claims that the chess player had never faced men. The series is fiction, but there is a true chess champion named Nona Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be named a grandmaster.
Now 80 years old and living in Tbilisi, Georgia, she has been upset to find that the television series had erased her hits against male opponents. A 1968 headline in The New York Times, for example, read: "Chess: Miss Gaprindashvili Beats 7 Men in Prestigious Tournament."
Oh wow! I overlooked that comment, didn't even know it was a real person. I wonder if she liked the show otherwise.
I was also impressed to learn that it was real, but to have sued the series I think he did not like it