Bela Khotenashvili

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Bela Khotenashvili

Bela Khotenashvili during FIDE Women's Grand Prix in May 2013
Country Georgia
Born (1988-06-01) June 1, 1988
Telavi, Georgia
Title International Grandmaster
Woman Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2527 (February 2014)
Peak rating 2531 (June 2013)

Bela Khotenashvili (born 1 June 1988) is a Georgian chess player with the titles of Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster.[1]

Early life

Khotenashvili was born in Telavi, Georgia, on 1 June 1988.[2]

She finished Tbilisi State University (Ivane Javakhishvili) and now is studying at Tbilisi Technical University.

Chess career

She was the girls' World Champion under 16, in 2004.

In 2009 Khotenashivili won the international women open Maia Chiburdanidze Cup. Since 2009 she is a Georgian National team member.

She was second with the Georgian national team in the European Women team championship 2009 and again was third In the Chess Olympiad 2010. She was third in the World women team championship 2011.

She won the Georgian Women's Chess Championship in 2012.

She took 8th place with the Georgian women's team in the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey.[3] She was the 13th seed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2012, but was knocked out in the first round.[4][5] She was the winner of the first stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–2014.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=13602640
  2. ↑ "Bela Khotenashvili". Geneva2013.fide.com. Retrieved 2014-01-05. 
  3. ↑ "2012 Chess Olympiad Istanbul: Armenia, Russia win Gold | Chess News". En.chessbase.com. Retrieved 2014-01-05. 
  4. ↑ "Rating | Women's World Championship 2012". Chess2012.ugrasport.com. 2012-11-22. Retrieved 2014-01-05. 
  5. ↑ "The Women’s World Chess Cup 2012 round one | Chess News". En.chessbase.com. Retrieved 2014-01-05. 
  6. ↑ "FIDE Women Grand Prix". Geneva2013.fide.com. Retrieved 2014-01-05. 

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