Meri Arabidze (

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

: მერი არაბიძე; born 25 February 1994 in

Samtredia Samtredia ( ka, სამტრედია ) is a town in Imereti, Georgia, lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni and Tskhenis-Tsqali, west of the capital Tbilisi, and west of Georgia's second largest city Kutaisi. Georgia’s most impor ...

, Georgia) is a

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 ...

player who holds the

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and

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

. She won three titles at 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 ...

: girls under-10 in 2004, girls under-12 in 2005, and girls under-18 in 2011. Arabidze also won three times at the

European Youth Chess Championship The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was als ...

, in the categories girls under-10 in 2004, girls under-12 in 2006, and girls under-14 in 2008. Arabidze earned the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title in 2004, Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009, Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012, and International Master (IM) in 2014. Europe champion 2023 In 2014, at the Moscow Open, she won the tournament G, a round-robin event for female students. Arabidze reached the quarterfinals of the

Women's World Chess Championship 2015 The Women's World Chess Championship was held from 16 March to 7 April 2015 in Sochi, Russia. It was a 64-player knockout tournament. It was originally scheduled from 11 to 31 October 2014 but problems in finding a sponsor and host city eventually ...

, after sequentially knocking out

Elisabeth Pähtz Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985, sometimes spelt Elisabeth Paehtz) is a German chess Grandmaster.Yaniet Marrero Lopez Yaniet Marrero López (born 4 April 1983) is a Cuban chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She won the Women's Cuban Chess Championship in 2011. At the 2010 Women's Chess Olympiad she won an individual gold medal tha ...

and

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. Then she lost to

Harika Dronavalli Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Dronavalli was honored with the ...

. She was part of the Georgian team which won the 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 ...

2015. In this competition she also won the individual gold medal for board 3. She played for the Georgian national team also in the 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 ...

in 2013 and 2015, winning a team bronze medal in 2015.

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* * * 1994 births Living people Female chess players from Georgia (country) Chess International Masters Chess woman grandmasters World Youth Chess Champions People from Imereti {{Georgia-chess-bio-stub