Keti Tsatsalashvili ( ka, ქეთი წაწალაშვილი; born 10 June 1992) is a Georgian

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player and

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(WGM) since 2011.

Biography

Keti Tsatsalashvili repeatedly represented Georgia at the

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s and

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s in different age groups, where she won six medals: two gold (in 2007, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group and in 2010, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group), two silver (in 2009, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group and in 2009, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls age group) and two bronze (in 2007, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group and in 2008, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls age group). Keti Tsatsalashvili has won multiple international chess tournaments, including in 2010,

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memorial women's chess tournament in

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. In 2008, she was awarded the FIDE International Woman Master (WIM) title and received the FIDE International Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title three years later.

Streaming and commentary

In early 2021, Tsatsalashvili partnered with Armenian Women's Chess Champion, WGM

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, as well as IM Zura Javakhadze, and Aram Mashigian, to start the LetsChessLive channel on the streaming platform

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, before deciding to start streaming on her own eponymously-named channel. Tsatsalashvili also regularly does commentary on chess events, both in real life and online, especially on

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and for FIDÉ.

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Keti Tsatsalashvili
chess games at 365Chess.com 1992 births Sportspeople from Tbilisi Living people Female chess players from Georgia (country) Chess woman grandmasters {{Georgia-bio-stub