Top Chess Players in Georgia

GM Baadur Jobava 2570 | #159

Baadur Jobava is a Georgian grandmaster. He has won many tournaments, including the Dubai Open, Aeroflot Open, Tbilisi Cup, Bronstein Memorial, and Abu Dhabi Masters. His peak rating was 2734 in September 2012 when he was the number-19 player in the world. Jobava has been the Georgian Champion three...

GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili

GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili is a Georgian grandmaster who qualified for the 2023 FIDE World Cup.

GM Nikolozi Kacharava 2528 | #243

GM Giorgi Margvelashvili

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GM Merab Gagunashvili

Merab Gagunashvili is a Georgian Grandmaster.

MI Nikoloz Petriashvili 2504 | #295

GM Giga Quparadze

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GM Levan Pantsulaia 2493 | #323

Levan Pantsulaia is a Georgian chess grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Luka Paichadze 2492 | #332

Luka Paichadze is a Georgian grandmaster who qualified for the 2021 FIDE World Cup.

GM Alexandre Qashashvili

MI Irakli Beradze 2479 | #376

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GM Nana Dzagnidze 2478 | #380

Nana Dzagnidze is a Georgian grandmaster and one of the top female players in the world.  She won the World Girls U12 Championship in 1999 and the World Girls U20 Championship in 2003. In 2010 she won the tournament in Jermuk, the 4th leg of FIDE Women's Grand Prix series.  In 2017 she won...

GM Nino Batsiashvili 2475 | #391

Nino Batsiashvili is a Georgian grandmaster and three-time national champion. After taking her first Georgian Women’s Chess Championship in 2013, she won the same event two years later in 2015. That year, she not only placed second in the Women’s European Individual Chess Championship and...

GM Konstantine Shanava

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MI Lela Javakhishvili 2442 | #532

Lela Javakhishvili is a Georgian international master and four-time national champion. Her four Women’s Georgian Chess Championships came over a span of 15 years, in 2001, 2007, 2014, and 2016. In 2012, she made it to the third round of the Women’s World Championship knockout tournament,...

GM Davit Maghalashvili 2436 | #553

MI Zurab Javakhadze 2423 | #609

GM Bella Khotenashvili 2415 | #655

Bela Khotenashvili is a Georgian grandmaster. She is one of the top-five female chess players in her country and is among the top 25 in the world (as of February 2021). Khotenashvili won the Women's World U-16 Championship in 2004. In 2009, she won the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup, an international women's...

MI Meri Arabidze 2409 | #695

Meri Arabidze is a Georgian international master and former three-time youth world champion. She won the under-10, under-12, and under-18 girls World Youth Chess Championships in 2004, 2005, and 2011, respectively. Additionally, she won three European Youth Chess Championships in 2004 (under-10), 2006...

MI Giorgi Sibashvili

GM Davit Benidze 2388 | #835

MF Luka kiladze 2386 | #849

GM Mikheil Kekelidze

MI Nodar Lortkipanidze

MI Gaioz Nigalidze