{"id":779546,"date":"2021-09-17T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=779546"},"modified":"2021-09-17T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:29:57","slug":"first-female-chess-grandmaster-sues-netflix-for-the-queens-gambit-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-female-chess-grandmaster-sues-netflix-for-the-queens-gambit-insult\/","title":{"rendered":"First Female Chess Grandmaster Sues Netflix For \u2018The Queen\u2019s Gambit\u2019 Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffirst-female-chess-grandmaster-sues-netflix-for-the-queens-gambit-insult%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=779546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1338246196-e1631893228809.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cThe only unusual thing about her, really, is her sex, and even that\u2019s not unique in Russia,\u201d an announcer states while covering the final tournament match in Netflix\u2019s award-winning show, <\/span><i><span>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/span><\/i><span>. \u201cThere\u2019s Nona Gaprindashvili, but she\u2019s the female world champion and has never faced men.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While <em>The Queen\u2019s Gambit<\/em> \u2014 starring Anya Taylor-Joy \u2014 is fictional, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/16\/arts\/television\/queens-gambit-lawsuit.html\"><span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span> reported that \u201cthere is a real pioneering chess champion named Nona Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be named a grandmaster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNow 80 years old and living in Tbilisi, Georgia, she was pained to learn that the television show had erased her many successes against male opponents,\u201d The New York Times added, referencing a headline from 1968 which read, \u201cChess: Miss Gaprindashvili Beats 7 Men in a Strong Tourney.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, Gaprindashvili filed a lawsuit against Netflix in Federal District Court in Los Angeles. The suit seeks millions of dollars in damages, citing a \u201cdevastating falsehood, undermining and degrading her accomplishments before an audience of many millions,\u201d while also demanding that the \u201cThere\u2019s Nona Gaprindashvili, but she\u2019s the female world champion and has never faced men,\u201d line should be cut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey were trying to do this fictional character who was blazing the trail for other women when in reality I had already blazed the trail and inspired generations,\u201d Gaprindashvili said in a recent interview. \u201cThat\u2019s the irony.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis was an insulting experience,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is my entire life that has been crossed out, as though it is not important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the lawsuit, Netflix \u201cbrazenly and deliberately lied about Gaprindashvili\u2019s achievements for the cheap and cynical purpose of \u2018heightening the drama\u2019 by making it appear that its fictional hero had managed to do what no other woman, including Gaprindashvili, had done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[In] a story that was supposed to inspire women by showing a young woman competing with men at the highest levels of world chess, Netflix humiliated the one real woman trailblazer who had actually faced and defeated men on the world stage in the same era,\u201d the suit added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, Netflix released a statement which read, \u201cNetflix has only the utmost respect for Ms. Gaprindashvili and her illustrious career, but we believe this claim has no merit and will vigorously defend the case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gaprindashvili was born in 1961 in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and became the first woman to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster in 1978. She was also the fifth women\u2019s world chess champion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2015, she was awarded the Order of Excellence by President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili for \u201cher outstanding contribution to the country and nation\u201d and \u201crepresenting Georgia at an international level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI played against many great Grandmasters,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertjournal.com\/features\/show\/12351\/real-life-queens-gambit-nona-gaprindashvili-georgian-women-chess-beth-harmon-netflix\">said<\/a> in 2020. \u201cI had many notable matches against them, and I received many acknowledgment from them for those matches. So, it\u2019s completely untrue. It\u2019s not a big emotional factor to be honest, but it\u2019s dishonoring to have misinformation spread about someone\u2019s achievements.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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