Bella Khotenashvili ( ka, ბელა ხოტენაშვილი; born 1 June 1988) is a

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

grandmaster. She competed in the

Women's World Chess Championship The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, wher ...

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and

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Career

Khotenashivili won the

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cade ...

in the girls under-16 category in 2004. In 2009, she won the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup tournament edging out

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on tiebreak score. In 2011, she tied for first place with

Nino Batsiashvili Nino Batsiashvili ( ka, ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster and 4-time and the current Georgian Chess Championship, Georgian women's chess champion. In 2012, she ...

in the Group D tournament at the 9th Khazar International Open in

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, Iran. Khotenashvili won the Georgian Women's Championship in 2012. In 2013 and 2014, Khotenashivili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series as host city nominee of

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. She won the first stage, which took place in

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. With this victory she achieved her third and final

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required for the title Grandmaster. In December 2014, she won the best woman's prize in the first edition of the

Qatar Masters Open The Qatar Masters Open is an open chess tournament organized by the Qatar Chess Association in Doha, Qatar. Its first edition took place from 25 November to 5 December 2014. Qatar Masters 2014 The tournament was open to every player with Elo 2300 ...

. In 2016, Khotenashvili participated again in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. In 2017, she won for the second time the Georgian Women's Championship.

Team events

Khotenashvili has played for the Georgian national team in the

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

since 2010, Women's

World Team Chess Championship The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads ...

since 2011, and Women's

European Team Chess Championship The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...

since 2009. She won two gold medals, team and individual as the best player on the top board, in the Women's

2015 in

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

, China."Georgia takes gold in Women’s World Team Chess Championship"
Chessdom. 2015-04-28. With team Georgia she has won also the silver medal at the 2009 Women's European Team Championship, and bronze in the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad and 2011 Women's World Team Championship. In the Women's

European Chess Club Cup The European Chess Club Cup is an annual chess tournament for club teams from Europe. It is organised by the European Chess Union. The competition is held with the Swiss system over seven rounds. It consists of two sections, open and women's, with e ...

, with team "Nona" of

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she won the gold medal in 2014 and 2015, and silver in 2016.

Personal life

She graduated from

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

and then went on to study at

Georgian Technical University Georgian Technical University (GTU, formerly V.I. Lenin Georgian Polytechnical Institute) is the main and largest technical university of Georgia. It is located in the capital city of Tbilisi. History Georgian Technical University was founded i ...

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