Nino Batsiashvili

Nino Batsiashvili (Georgian: ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987)[1] is a Georgian chess grandmaster and 4-time[2][3] and the current Georgian women's chess champion.[4]

Nino Batsiashvili
Batsiashvili in 2022
CountryGeorgia
Born (1987-01-01) 1 January 1987
Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating2475 (October 2023)
Peak rating2528 (March 2018)

In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open.[5][6] In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.[7]

In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship[8] and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.[9][10]

She was a member of the Georgian team that won the gold medal in the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015, held in Chengdu, China.[11] Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four.[12]

In December 2015 she drew against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open.[13][14][15]

In 2016 Batsiashvili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. She finished second in the last stage, held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.[16]

In 2018 she was awarded the Grandmaster title.[17]

In 2022 she won an individual gold medal for her performance at board 2, in the women's tournament at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India.

References
  1. WGM title application FIDE
  2. 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus. FIDE.
  3. "The Week in Chess 1343". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. "GM Nino Batsiashvili wins 79th Georgian Women's Chess Championship". chessdom.com. Retrieved 2022-06-17.
  5. Moscow Open 2012 E. chess-results.com.
  6. Winners of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012». FIDE. 2012-02-07
  7. "Memorial of Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska". Chessdom. 2013-10-08. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  8. "IM Nino Batsiashvili is 2015 Georgian champion for women". Chessdom. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  9. "European Women's Championship: Zhukova First, Batsiashvili Second, Kashlinskaya Third". chess-news.ru. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  10. "Natalia Zhukova is 2015 European Women's Champion". Chessdom. 2015-05-31. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  11. "Georgia takes gold in Women’s World Team Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2015-04-28.
  12. Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015: board standings. chess-results.com.
  13. "Batsiashvili forces draw with Carlsen in Qatar". The Peninsula Qatar. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  14. Silver, Albert (2015-12-20). "Qatar 2015 Rd1: Surprises, upsets – what a start!". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  15. "Qatar Masters 1: No-one said it was gonna be easy". chess24.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  16. "Ju Wenjun is triumphant in Khanty-Mansiysk". www.fide.com. FIDE. 2016-12-01. Archived from the original on 2016-12-11. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  17. "Schach-Ticker | Jetzt wirklich: GM-Titel für Nino Batsiashvili". Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
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