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Nona Gaprindashvili (Georgian: ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and in 1978 she was the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster.
Sep 6, 2022 · Netflix has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Nona Gaprindashvili, a Georgian chess grandmaster who claimed she was defamed by a reference in 'The Queen's Gambit.'
Sep 16, 2021 · Nona Gaprindashvili, a history-making chess champion, sued Netflix after a line in the series mentioned her by name and said she had “never faced men.” She had, often.
Nona Gaprindashvili was the fifth women’s world champion, winning the title in 1962 and holding it for 16 years. Equally if not more notably, she was the first woman to become a grandmaster, doing so in 1978.
Nov 27, 2020 · When Harmon finally faces the Soviet heavyweights in Moscow for the first time, the camera pans briefly to a female Soviet chess player, Nona Gaprindashvili. While Harmon’s story is fictional, Gaprindashvili is a real chess player from Georgia who became the Women’s World Chess Champion five times. In the show, Gaprindashvili is introduced ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Lawyers for the pioneering chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili filed papers in federal court on Tuesday suggesting that they had settled her defamation lawsuit against Netflix over what they had...
Sep 17, 2021 · Born in Soviet Georgia in 1941, Nona Gaprindashvili began playing chess at age five. By 37, she was a grandmaster. The Thomson Reuters Foundation speaks to one of the legends of the chess game.
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