Nino Batsiashvili

Nino Batsiashvili
Country Georgia
Born (1987-01-01) 1 January 1987
Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating 2482 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2528 (March 2018)

Nino Batsiashvili (Georgian: ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987)[1] is a Georgian chess grandmaster.[2]

In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open.[3][4] In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.[5]

In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship[6] and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.[7][8]

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.[9] Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four.[10]

In December 2015 she drew against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open.[11][12][13]

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.[14]

In 2018 she was awarded the Grandmaster title.[15]

References

  1. ↑ WGM title application FIDE
  2. ↑ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus. FIDE.
  3. ↑ Moscow Open 2012 E. chess-results.com.
  4. ↑ Winners of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012». FIDE. 2012-02-07
  5. ↑ "Memorial of Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska". Chessdom. 2013-10-08. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "IM Nino Batsiashvili is 2015 Georgian champion for women". Chessdom. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  7. ↑ "European Women's Championship: Zhukova First, Batsiashvili Second, Kashlinskaya Third". chess-news.ru. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  8. ↑ "Natalia Zhukova is 2015 European Women's Champion". Chessdom. 2015-05-31. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  9. ↑ "Georgia takes gold in Women’s World Team Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2015-04-28.
  10. ↑ Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015: board standings. chess-results.com.
  11. ↑ "Batsiashvili forces draw with Carlsen in Qatar". The Peninsula Qatar. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  12. ↑ Silver, Albert (2015-12-20). "Qatar 2015 Rd1: Surprises, upsets – what a start!". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  13. ↑ "Qatar Masters 1: No-one said it was gonna be easy". chess24.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  14. ↑ "Ju Wenjun is triumphant in Khanty-Mansiysk". www.fide.com. FIDE. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  15. ↑ http://www.chess-international.de/archive/84290


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