USSR chess legend sues over Queen's Gambit

By David Chkhikvishvili
Updated September 18 2021 - 1:45am, first published 1:39am
Nona Gaprindashvili's lawyers say The Queen's Gambit includes a line that is false and sexist.
Nona Gaprindashvili's lawyers say The Queen's Gambit includes a line that is false and sexist.

The world's first female chess grandmaster, Nona Gaprindashvili, has filed a $US5 million ($A6.9 million) defamation lawsuit against Netflix over a line in its The Queen's Gambit series which her lawyers say is false and sexist.

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