https://news.yahoo.com/queen-gambit-true-story-explained-210200430.html
In a fun twist, as McClain noted, since Fischer was known to be dismissive of female chess players and once claimed they were less intelligent than men, "Making Beth recall a female Fischer may have been a sneaky, and wonderful, way to send up that assessment."
So they "owned" Bobby Fischer and his wholly accurate assessment of female chess players by grafting his skill and personality onto a fictional female chess prodigy who is more accomplished than any real female player in history? That'll show him, eh?
This is just so painfully "Netflix".
Ugh, reminds me if Amazon's the Aeronauts, where they took the true story of a scientist and his friend/assistant (who saved him after they went too high and pass out) studying weather and the atmosphere in balloons, and replaced the friend with a fictional woman (and an Indian man to a lesser extent), so they could have stupid "rah girl power" moments and a romance subplot (despite the real life scientist having been married before the events). Its just so irritating they chose to erase a real heroic event of two male friends so they could insert some pathetic fake representation or empowerment, and some cliche romance because apparently that's the only way to make women care about history.
If they did it with two male friends, these same people would all claim they're gay.
Gotta pass those diversity quotas or no Oscar for you!