Nino Batsiashvili | |
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Country | Georgia |
Born |
Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
1 January 1987
Title |
International Master Woman Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2494 (March 2017) |
Peak rating | 2509 (November 2015) |
Nino Batsiashvili (Georgian: ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987 in Batumi) 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. In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.
In 2015 she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.
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. Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four.
In December 2015 she drew against reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open.
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.