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Zurab Sturua (born 8 June 1959) is a Georgian
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 dist ...
player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by
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in 1991. He won the Georgian Chess Championship 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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, Gyula Sax and
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at
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1997. In 1998, he tied for 7th–11th with Giorgi Bagaturov, Ioannis Nikolaidis, and
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in the zonal tournament in Panormo,
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, which was the qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999. 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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Zurab Sturua
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