Sopio Gvetadze ( Georgian სოფიო გვეტაძე ; born November 15, 1983 , Tbilisi ) - Georgian chess player , grandmaster among women ( 2006 ) [1] , international master among men ( 2007 ) [2] .
 Sofio Gvetadze | |
|---|---|
| სოფიო გვეტაძე | |
| Country |  Georgia |
| Date of Birth | November 15, 1983 (35 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Tbilisi |
| Rank | international master ( 2007 ) ---- grandmaster ( 2006 ) among women international master ( 2001 ) among women |
| Maximum rating | 2416 in 2007 |
| Actual Rating | 2325 |
| Personal card on the FIDE website Personal card on the Chess DB website | |
Biography
She repeatedly represented Georgia at the European Youth Chess Championships and the Youth World Chess Championships among girls in various age groups, where she achieved the greatest success in 2001, when she won the Youth World Championship among girls in the U18 age group. In the same year, she became the champion of Georgia among girls in the same age group. In 2002, together with Nana, Dzagnidze shared the first place at the Georgian Women's Chess Championship in the U20 age group. In 2004, in Izmir, she won the NTN Women's European Team Chess Cup in Tbilisi [3] . In 2006, she was tenth at the European Women's Individual Chess Championship [4] . In 2007, she won a bronze medal at the Georgian Women's Chess Championship .
She qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship in 2008 , which was held in Nalchik , but because of an armed conflict in South Ossetia, together with other Georgian chess players, refused to participate in the tournament [5] . In the World Women's Chess Championship in 2017 in Tehran, in the first round, she lost to her compatriot Nino Batsiashvili [6] .
Represented Georgia at the 2007 World Chess Team Championship . In 2007, in Romania at the European Championship for Women in Rapid Chess, she took 3rd place and in the same year at the European Championships in Blitz, she took 2nd place.
Notes
- ↑ Title Applications (WGM): Gvetadze, Sopio
- ↑ Title Applications (IM): Gvetadze, Sopio
- ↑ OlimpBase :: 9th European Chess Club Cup (women), Izmir 2004, NTN Tbilisi
- ↑ 7th European Individual Women's Chess Championship 2006
- ↑ Appeal to FIDE: move the Women's World Championship
- ↑ FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2017 (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment May 11, 2017. Archived February 21, 2017.
Links
- Sopio Gvetadze's personal card on the FIDE website
- Sopio Gvetadze games in the database
- Sopio Gvetadze's personal card on 365chess.com
- Speeches of Sopio Gvetadze at the team world championships