Nona Gaprindashvili was mentioned in the hit Netflix series — but she says a comment about her got the facts wrong.
Nona Gaprindashvili, one of the top chess players in the world in the 1970s, has advanced her pieces against Netflix over. The former Georgia grandmaster filed a defamation suit on Thursday against the streamer.
The hit series focuses on the rise of fictional chess player Beth Harmon and is based on a 1983 novel. In the show, Harmon is raised in an orphanage and eventually beats Russia’s finest players in the 1960s in Moscow during the heart of the Cold War.In the final episode, she’s referenced by a chess commentator who states: “Harmon’s level of play wasn’t at theirs. Someone like Laev probably didn’t spend a lot of time preparing for their match.
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