Full name Nana Dzagnidze Role Chess Player Country Georgia | Peak ranking 3 (September 2015) Name Nana Dzagnidze | |
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Born 1 January 1987 (age 37)
Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union ( 1987-01-01 ) Title Grandmaster
Woman Grandmaster | ||
20 nana dzagnidze vs harika dronavalli womens blitz chess championship 2014
Nana Dzagnidze (Georgian: ნანა ძაგნიძე; born 1 January 1987) is a chess player from Georgia. She was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008. Dzagnidze is the current European women's champion. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Georgian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2008 and the Women's World Team Chess Championship in 2015.
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- 20 nana dzagnidze vs harika dronavalli womens blitz chess championship 2014
- 25 nana dzagnidze vs elisabeth paehtz womens blitz chess championship 2014
- Youth success
- Team performances
- Further progress
- References
25 nana dzagnidze vs elisabeth paehtz womens blitz chess championship 2014
Youth success
As a junior player, she showed early promise by winning the World Girls Under-12 Championship in 1999. The momentum was maintained throughout her teenage years and she also claimed the gold medal at the World Girls Under 20 Championship in 2003, 2 points ahead of the field.
In September 2005 she took part in the sixth Lausanne Young Masters tournament, finishing seventh. Andrei Volokitin won the tournament.
Team performances
She has been a regular board two for Georgia's Women's Olympiad team and helped them reclaim the gold medal at Dresden in 2008, scoring a very useful 7/10.
Dzagnidze's record at the European Team Chess Championship has been no less impressive, taking a team silver medal at the 2005 women's event and an individual board four gold medal in 2007.
Further progress
Despite some leveling off of her tournament performances in the period 2003-2007, she made a significant leap in the last quarter of 2008 and playing more chess than ever, continued the upsurge into 2009, registering her highest Elo rating and rising to eighth on FIDE's list of 'Top 100 Women', higher than Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk.
At Gibraltar Chess Festival 2009, she started the tournament in great style, her 3 points from the first three rounds earning her an appearance on the top table, after defeating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (Elo: 2696). She crowned her moment of glory by drawing with Bartosz Soćko (Elo: 2631) in round 4. She was leading female in Gibraltar Chess Festival 2011 again.
In July 2010 she won the women's Grand Prix tournament, the fourth of six such tournaments as part of the Women's World Chess Championship cycle for 2011. She won seven games and drew four, in the eleven-round round-robin tournament. She finished 1½ points ahead of second-place finisher Tatiana Kosintseva.
She was the best individual female player during the 41st Chess Olympiad in Tromsø, Norway, ahead of Hou Yifan. In 2017, she won the European Women's Championship in Riga.