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Maia chiburdanidze biography

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Maia Chiburdanidze

Georgian chess grandmaster (born 1961)

Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgian: მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a GeorgianchessGrandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan. Chiburdanidze is the second woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE, which took place in 1984. She has played on nine gold-medal-winning teams in the Women's Chess Olympiad.[1]

Early life and career

Maia Chiburdanidze was born in Kutaisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR, and started playing chess around the age of eight. She became the USSR girls' champion in 1976, and a year later she won the women's title. In 1977, Chiburdanidze was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE.

Chiburdanidze won outright on her debut, at the Braşov women's international tournament of 1974, when she was only 13 years old and went on to win another tournament in Tbilisi in 1975 before entering the women's world championship cyc

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Maia Chiburdanidze

Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgian: მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgianchessgrandmaster, and the seventh Women's World Chess Champion. She is the only chess player in history who has won nine Chess Olympiads. Maia is one of the very few women who has won a top-class grandmaster tournament.[1] Chiburdanidze's FIDEElo rating in the January 2010 list is 2514, and she is still the 11th highest rated female player in the world.[2]

Maia Chiburdanidze was born in Kutaisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR and started playing chess around the age of eight. She became the USSR girls' champion in 1976 and a year later she won the Soviet women's title. In 1977 she was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster.

Women's World Champion (1978–91)

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Chiburdanidze finished 2nd in the Tbilisi Women's Interzonal (1976), thereby qualifying for the 1977 candidates matches. She advanced through to the Candidates Final, where she beat Alla Kushnir by 7½–6½ to set up a world title match in Pitsunda, Georgia, aga

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At the mere age of 13, she made her debut in the women’s international tournament in Brasov. In this competition, the “miracle girl” won first place and fulfilled the requirements for an international master. Two years later, Chiburdanidze became the champion of the USSR among junior women and a year later, she won the adult women’s championship.

Chiburdanidze joined the fight for the women’s world championship in 1976 and immediately split 2nd-3rd places in the inter-zonal tournament in Tbilisi, thus winning the right to play in candidates’ matches. Few believed that the 15 year-old chess player, though undoubtedly talented, could pass the candidates’ tournament at first attempt, but Chiburdanidze managed to do it, albeit after a rigorous struggle. In the quarter-final, she won against her compatriot, Nana Alexandria, 5,4:4,5, in the semi-final against Elena Akhmilovskaya (6,5:5,5) and, finally, in the final she defeated the experienced Alla Kushnir by a score of 7,5:6,5.

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