“I was interested in everything that boys played” Meet Nona Gaprindashvili, chess’s first female grandmaster
UMBERTO BACCHI SHE is the only real female chess champion featured in the hit Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', but Georgia's Nona Gaprindashvili is none too happy about how the show dismisses her Soviet-era heyday. Gaprindashvili, the first woman to be awarded the title of grandmaster by the World Chess Federation, is mentioned in passing in the period drama as a female world champion who "has never faced men" - something the 79-year-old said made her "very angry". "I felt insulted," Gaprindashvili told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview, adding that by 1968, when the scene is set, she…