Nino Batsiashvili ( ka, ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian

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grandmaster and 4-time and the current Georgian women's chess champion. In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the

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Open. In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd

Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (5 February 1931 – 29 November 2006) was a Polish chess player. She was awarded the titles Woman International Master in 1955 and Woman Grandmaster in 1984 by FIDE. Born in Lviv, she was nine-time Polish women's cham ...

Memorial in

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, Poland on tiebreak over

Joanna Majdan-Gajewska Joanna Majdan-Gajewska ( Majdan; born 9 June 1988) is a Polish chess player with the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She was a member of the national team at the 2006 Chess Olympiad (women's section) in Turin, where she scored 6 points from 9 ...

. In 2015, she won the Women's

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and finished second in the Women's

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. She was a member of the Georgian team that won the gold medal in the Women's

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2015, held in

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, China. Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four. In December 2015 she

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against reigning world champion

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in the opening round of the

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. In 2016 Batsiashvili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. She finished second in the last stage, held in

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, Russia. In 2018 she was awarded the Grandmaster title. In 2022 she won an individual gold medal for her performance at board 2, in the women's tournament at the

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, India.

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