Zurab Sturua (born 8 June 1959) is a

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player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by

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in 1991. He won the

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in 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1985 and played for Georgia in the

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s of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. Sturua won the Master Open of the

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in 1991 and 1996. He tied for 1st–5th places with

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, Christopher Lutz,

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and Aleksander Delchev at

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1997. In 1998, he tied for 7th–11th with

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, Ioannis Nikolaidis, and

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in the zonal tournament in Panormo,

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, which was the qualifying tournament for the

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. In 2005 , Sturua tied for 1st–2nd with Mikheil Kekelidze at the Zayed Open in

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, winning the tournament on tiebreak. Sturua won the over-50 section of the World Seniors' Championship in 2014 and won the same division at the European Seniors' Championship in 2015, 2016, and 2019.

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chess games at 365Chess.com * 1959 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Georgia (country) Place of birth missing (living people) World Senior Chess Champions {{Georgia-chess-bio-stub