“The accusation that Gaprindashvili ‘has never faced men’ is patently false, as well as being grossly sexist and demeaning,” the chess legend’s libel complaint filed in September 2021 read.
“By 1968, the year this episode takes place, he had competed against at least 59 male chess players (28 of them simultaneously in one game), including at least ten Grandmasters of that time, including Dragolyub Velimirovich, Svetozar Gligoric, Paul Keres , Bojan Kurajica, Boris Spassky, Viswanathan Anand, and Mikhail Tal. The last three were also world champions during their careers.”
Netflix tried to argue that a minor inaccuracy was committed. They also argued that the essence of the series was a feminist narrative. Furthermore, they said that the line about Gaprindashvili shouldn’t matter because the series had a disclaimer and “is a completely fictional work”, even though it mentions real people like the plaintiff player and events from the Cold War era of the real life.
Source: Ambito
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