Ana Matnadze

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Ana Matnadze, Warsaw 2013
Association GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia (until 2012) Spain (since 2012)
SpainSpain 
Born February 20, 1983
Telavi , Soviet Union
title International Master of Women (1999)
Grand Master of Women (2002)
International Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating 2421 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2447 (January to March 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ana Matnadze (in another transcription Ana Matnadze , Georgian ანა მათნაძე; born February 20, 1983 in Telavi ) is a Georgian chess player and trainer. In March 2012 she switched from the Georgian to the Spanish chess federation.

Life

Ana Matnadze was trained by her godmother Nona Gaprindashvili . She studied German language and literature at the Iwane Javachishvili State University in Tbilisi . In June 2004 she attracted attention by publishing a letter to FIDE in which she and WGM Lela Javachishvili criticized various aspects of the Women's World Cup . In 2005 she founded the organization Chess - a Peace Ambassador (CPA) . The organization of which she is president has a program of youth exchanges between Georgia and Catalonia. Another CPA activity was, for example, holding a chess tournament to raise money and aid for flood victims in western Georgia. She is a chess trainer at Associació d'Escacs Rubinenca from Barcelona and at the InterAjedrez Academia.

successes

Ana Matnadze won or played successfully at the following tournaments and women's and girls' championships:

She became FIDE-Master of Women (WFM) in 1993, International Master of Women (WIM) in 1999 and Grand Master of Women (WGM) in 2002. Since September 2006 she also has the title of International Master (IM). She achieved the necessary standards for this in February 2005 at the Malaga Open in Campillos , in August and September 2005 at the Open Intl De Sants in Barcelona and in July 2006 at the Open in Balague.

In October 2019 she was in second place in the Spanish women's Elo ranking, behind Sabrina Vega Gutiérrez . With her highest Elo rating to date of 2447, she led the Spanish women's Elo ranking in March 2012. Her highest position to date in the FIDE women's world rankings was 34th in July 2002 with an Elo rating of 2424.

National team

With the Spanish women's team, Matnadze took part in the 2012 , 2014 , 2016 and 2018 Chess Olympiads . She came second in the individual ranking in 2014 and third in 2018 on the third board. Matnadze also took part with Spain in the women's team championships in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019, with the second-best individual result in 2013 and the third-best individual result on the third board in 2017.

societies

In Georgia she played for the NTN Tbilisi team until 2005 , with whom she took second place in the 2003 European Women's Club Cup . In 2004 and 2005 she won the competition with Tbilisi, where Ana Matnadze won an individual silver medal on the third board in 2004 and on the fourth board in 2005. She moved to the Energy-Investi Sakartveli association , with whom she came second in the 2006 Club Cup. She has also played in Catalan and Spanish (for CE Barbera Barcelona , Club Ajedrez Solvay and Escola d'Escacs de Barcelona ) and Turkish (for Tarsus Zeka Satranç ) leagues. In the German women's Bundesliga, Matnadse played for USV Volksbank Halle from 2012 to 2015 , in France she was active at Club d'Echecs d'Annemasse , with which she won the French women's team championship in 2014 , and at Montpellier Echecs . In China, she played for Chengdu in the 2014 season . In the Belgian Interclubs, Matnadse has been playing for the Schaakclub Wachtebeke since 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Ana Matnadze  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Protest by Georgian women grandmasters . Article on ChessBase from September 6, 2004 (English)
  2. ↑ Ajedrez por la paz y la comprensión , chessbase.com (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Chess tournament to help flood victims in Western Georgia (English) ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  5. ↑ Ana Matnadze's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Spain. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Spain. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women Board Prizes (final score after 11 rounds) - Women. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ 22th European Team Chess Championship 2019 Women Section Spain. In: chess-results.com. October 28, 2019, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ana Matnadze's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ Ana Matnadze's results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Matnadze, Ana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matnadze, Ana (English, Spanish, FIDE); მათნაძე, ანა (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian chess player and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Telavi