Nino Batsiashvili

Nino Batsiashvili
Batsiashvili in 2022
Personal information
Born (1987-01-01) 1 January 1987
Batumi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Chess career
CountryGeorgia
TitleGrandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating2472 (March 2026)
Peak rating2528 (March 2018)

Nino Batsiashvili (Georgian: ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987)[1] is a Georgian chess grandmaster[2] and five time[3] Georgian women's chess champion.

Career

In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open.[4][5] In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.[6]

In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship[7] and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship.[8][9]

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.[10] Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four.[11]

In December 2015 she drew against the then reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open.[12][13][14]

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.[15]

In 2018 she was awarded the Grandmaster title.[16]

In 2022 she won an individual gold medal for her performance at board 2, in the women's tournament at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, India.

On 10 January 2026, a day after ending 5th in European Women Blitz Championship 2025[17], she won the European Women Rapid Championship 2025[18]. The same event led her heading first in FIDE Women's Circuit 2026-2027 with 13.86 points[19], crossing the previous leader Eline Roebers.

References

  1. ^ WGM title application Archived 2017-10-25 at the Wayback Machine FIDE
  2. ^ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus. FIDE.
  3. ^ "The Week in Chess 1343". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. ^ Moscow Open 2012 E. chess-results.com.
  5. ^ Winners of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012». FIDE. 2012-02-07
  6. ^ "Memorial of Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska". Chessdom. 2013-10-08. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
  7. ^ "IM Nino Batsiashvili is 2015 Georgian champion for women". Chessdom. 2015-01-22. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  8. ^ "European Women's Championship: Zhukova First, Batsiashvili Second, Kashlinskaya Third". chess-news.ru. 2015-05-30. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  9. ^ "Natalia Zhukova is 2015 European Women's Champion". Chessdom. 2015-05-31. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  10. ^ "Georgia takes gold in Women’s World Team Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2015-04-28.
  11. ^ Women’s World Team Chess Championship 2015: board standings. chess-results.com.
  12. ^ "Batsiashvili forces draw with Carlsen in Qatar". The Peninsula Qatar. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  13. ^ Silver, Albert (2015-12-20). "Qatar 2015 Rd1: Surprises, upsets – what a start!". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  14. ^ "Qatar Masters 1: No-one said it was gonna be easy". chess24.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  15. ^ "Ju Wenjun is triumphant in Khanty-Mansiysk". www.fide.com. FIDE. 2016-12-01. Archived from the original on 2016-12-11. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  16. ^ "Schach-Ticker | Jetzt wirklich: GM-Titel für Nino Batsiashvili". Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-08-25.
  17. ^ "Results & Standings - European Women's Blitz Championship 2025". Chess.com. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  18. ^ "Results & Standings - European Women's Rapid Championship 2025". Chess.com. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  19. ^ "Women FIDE Circuit 2026 – 2027 – International Chess Federation". Retrieved 2026-02-03.
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