Grandmaster chess player Nona Gaprindashvili sued Netflix for defamation Thursday in California Central District Court in connection with the popular miniseries ‘The Queen’s Gambit.’ The suit, filed by Rufus-Isaacs Acland & Grantham, accuses Netflix of falsely claiming in the series that Gaprindashvili had ‘never faced men’ in a chess match when she had competed against at least 59 male chess players at the time the episode is set. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 2:21-cv-07408, Gaprindashvili v. Netflix, Inc.
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