Nino Batsiashvili

Nino Batsiashvili
Country Georgia
Born (1987-01-01) 1 January 1987
Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title International Master
Woman Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2469 (August 2017)
Peak rating 2509 (November 2015)

Nino Batsiashvili (Georgian: ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987 in Batumi)[1] is a Georgian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open.[2][3] In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.[4]

In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship[5] and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.[6][7]

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.[8] Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four.[9]

In December 2015 she drew against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open.[10][11][12]

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.[13]

References

  1. ↑ WGM title application FIDE
  2. ↑ Moscow Open 2012 E. chess-results.com.
  3. ↑ Winners of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012». FIDE. 2012-02-07
  4. ↑ "Memorial of Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska". Chessdom. 2013-10-08. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "IM Nino Batsiashvili is 2015 Georgian champion for women". Chessdom. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  6. ↑ "European Women's Championship: Zhukova First, Batsiashvili Second, Kashlinskaya Third". chess-news.ru. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  7. ↑ "Natalia Zhukova is 2015 European Women’s Champion". Chessdom. 2015-05-31. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  8. ↑ "Georgia takes gold in Women’s World Team Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2015-04-28.
  9. ↑ Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015: board standings. chess-results.com.
  10. ↑ "Batsiashvili forces draw with Carlsen in Qatar". The Peninsula Qatar. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  11. ↑ Silver, Albert (2015-12-20). "Qatar 2015 Rd1: Surprises, upsets – what a start!". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  12. ↑ "Qatar Masters 1: No-one said it was gonna be easy". chess24.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  13. ↑ "Ju Wenjun is triumphant in Khanty-Mansiysk". www.fide.com. FIDE. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-15.


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