Nazi Paikidze
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Paikidze at the World Junior Chess Championship in Gaziantep 2008.
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| Full name | Nazí Paikidze-Barnes |
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27 October 1993 Irkutsk, Russia |
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International Master (2012) Woman Grandmaster (2010) |
| Peak rating | 2455 (January 2011) |
Nazí Paikidze, sometimes also referred to as Paikidze-Barnes, (Georgian: ნაზი პაიკიძე; Russian: Нази Нодаровна Паикидзе-Барнс; [nɐˈzi pɐiˈkʲidzʲe], born 27 October 1993) is a Georgian American chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was twice world youth girls' champion and four-time European youth girls' champion in her age category. She is the 2016 U.S. women's champion.
Paikidze was born in Irkutsk, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia. Her father was a mechanical engineer, and her mother a biochemist. Her father taught her to play chess when she was four years old. That same year, her parents moved to Tbilisi, the capital and the largest city of Georgia, where she grew up with dual citizenship – Georgian and Russian.
In Tbilisi, Paikidze attended elementary school, where chess was part of the curriculum, and she relates that chess became her favorite class. Her chess teacher recognized her talent and suggested to her parents that they might consider chess as a profession for their daughter. Paikidze has said:
Every family in Georgia owns a chess set and knows how to play. Everyone in the country knows the names and faces of the top Georgian chess players.
In 1999, at the age of 6, Paikidze began working with her first professional chess coach and improved quickly. Just over three years later, in 2003, at the age of 9, Paikidze won her first international tournament: the European Youth Chess Championship, in a category for girls under ten years old. After that tournament she earned the title of FIDE master. Her family then moved to Moscow in 2006.
Paikidze's brother was a football player.
In 2008, at the age of 14, Paikidze began being coached by Russian Grandmaster Vladimir Belov and others. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 2010, then an International Master.
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