Zurab Sturua

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Zurab Sturua
Full name Zurab Sturua
Country Georgia
Born (1959-06-08) June 8, 1959
Title Grandmaster (1991)
FIDE rating 2524 (February 2014)
Peak rating 2600 (April 2001)

Zurab Sturua (born November 28, 1964) is a Georgian chess grandmaster (1991).

He won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1985[1] and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004.[2]

He won the Masters Open of the Biel chess tournament in 1991 and 1996.[3] He tied for 1st–5th with Jaan Ehlvest, Christopher Lutz, Gyula Sax and Aleksander Delchev at Pula 1997.[4] In 1998 he tied for 7th–11th with Giorgi Bagaturov, Ioannis Nikolaidis, Angelos Vouldis and Ashot Nadanian in the Zonal tournament in Panormo, Crete, which was the qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999.[5] In 2005 he tied for 1st–2nd with Mikheil Kekelidze at Dubai.[6]

On the November 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2524.

References

  1. ↑ "Campeonato de Georgia" (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  2. ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Zurab Sturua". OlimpBase. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  3. ↑ "Biel International Chess Festival Past Winners". BielChessFestival.ch. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Pula op 11th 1997". 365Chess.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (1998-11-09). "The Week in Chess 209: Zonal 1.5 Panormo, Crete". London Chess Center. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
  6. ↑ "Schachergebnisserver – Turnierdatenbank" (in German). Wiener Zeitungs. 2005-10-13. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 

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