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 | |
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Country | Georgia |
Born | Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union | 1 January 1987
Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
FIDE rating | 2445 (May 2024) |
Peak rating | 2528 (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.