First female chess grandmaster sues Netflix over false claim in Queen’s Gambit

The series incorrectly said the trailblazing player Nona Gaprindashvili had never faced men'

Netflix will face a $5m defamation lawsuit by a Georgian chess master who alleges she was defamed in the hit series The Queen's Gambit, after a judge refused to toss the suit on Thursday.

Nona Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be named a chess grandmaster, sued the streaming company in federal court in September. Gaprindashvili alleges that a line from The Queen's Gambit, where a character incorrectly states that she had never faced men", is grossly sexist and belittling". Gaprindashvili had played against 59 male competitors by 1968, the year the show is set.