Ketewan Arachamia-Grant

Ketewan Arachamia-Grant, Liverpool EU Championship 2008
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Georgia (1992 to 2008) Scotland (since 2008)
Born	July 19, 1968 Ochamtschire , Soviet Union
title	International Master of Women (1986) Grand Master of Women (1987) International Master (1993) Grand Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating	2380 (June 2020)
Best Elo rating	2506 (July 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ketewan Arachamia Grant (born July 19, 1968 in Otschamtschire , Abkhazian ASSR , Georgian SSR , Soviet Union as Ketewan Arachamia, Georgian ქეთევან არახამია ) is a Georgian chess master . At the German Chess Federation and the World Chess Federation FIDE it is written Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant .

Life

Ketewan Arachamia married the chess player Jonathan Grant (* 1966) in 1996 and moved to Edinburgh in the same year . However, she continued to compete for Georgia until 2008. Only in January 2008 did she change the chess federation.

Chess successes

In 1986 she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM), and in 1987 the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM). After becoming International Master (IM) in 1993, she received the title of Grand Master (GM) in March 2009 . She achieved the required standards in August 1996 in London at the Women v Veterans Foxtrot competition, in October 2007 at the Open in Calvià and at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden .

In 1983 and 1984 she won the Georgian SSR Women's Championship. In 1985 she won the FIDE World Chess Championship U20 women in Dobrná ( Czech Republic ) . In 1990 she became champion of the Georgian SSR for the third time and became the Soviet women's individual champion in Podolsk . In 1987, Ketewan Arachamia qualified as second in the interzonal tournament in Tuzla for the Candidates' tournament for the World Cup , where she finished 8th. In 1991 she won the Doeberl Cup in Canberra . In 1993 she won the women's interzonal tournament in Jakarta , and in 1995 the women's interzonal tournament in Chișinău . In 2003 she first became British women's champion in Edinburgh and later that year, again in Edinburgh, shared with the Scottish grandmaster Paul Motwani Scottish champion. This was the first time a woman had managed to win the Scottish Championship. At the British Individual Championship in Swansea in 2006 , she was second behind Jonathan Rowson . She was British women's individual champion four times, after 2003 in 2004, 2006 and 2007. In August 2009 she won the Baltic Queen tournament ( category 8 ) in Saint Petersburg with 6 points from 9 games.

With her highest Elo rating of 2506 in July 2009 she was 12th in the women's world rankings, third in the Scottish Elo rankings and first in the Scottish women's rankings.

Team chess

Arakhamia-Grant, 2013 in Baden-Baden after winning the German women's team championship

National team

At the 1990 Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad she achieved a result of 12 points from 12 games for the Soviet national team on the third board and reached second place with the team. Then (most recently in Bled in 2002 ) she competed for Georgia. With Georgia she won the gold medal in Moscow in 1994 and in Yerevan in 1996 . She played in the Scottish Open team at the 2008 Olympics in Dresden, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk and 2012 in Istanbul , at the 2014 Chess Olympiads in Tromsø , 2016 in Baku and 2018 in Batumi , she played on the top board of the Scottish women's selection.

Arachamia-Grant took the Georgian selection of five (1992, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2005) European Team Championships for women in part. She won the competition with the team in Pula in 1997 and came second in Debrecen in 1992 and Gothenburg in 2005 . In 1997 she took part in the team world championship.

Club chess

In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) Arachamia-Grant played for the Midland Monarchs in the 1995/96 season , she has played since 1996 (interrupted by an engagement with 3Cs in the 2006/07 season and three seasons in which she did not Played part) with Wood Green (since 2008 Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher ), with whom she won the 4NCL in 2005 , 2006 , 2009 , 2010 and 2012 . She played for White Rose in the 2016-17 season . In Germany it plays in the Women Bundesliga since 2006 for the OSG Baden-Baden , with whom she 2008 , 2009 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 and 2018 the championship won. She also plays in Georgia for Interplast Tiflis and in Romania for CS Cotnari-Politehnica Iaşi . At the European Women's Club Cup , Arachamia-Grant took part in 2007 with Interplast Tiflis , in 2009 with CS Cotnari-Politehnica Iaşi and in 2010 with Saint Petersburg , with which she came second.

Web links

Commons : Ketewan Arachamia-Grant  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Ketewan Arachamia-Grant on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Awarding of titles at the 1st Quarter Presidential Board 2009 (English)
2. ↑ GM application from Ketewan Arachamia Grant to FIDE (English).
3. ↑ Interzonal Tournament Jakarta 1993 (English)
4. ↑ Interzonal Tournament Chisinau 1995 (English)
5. ↑ List of British individual champions since 1904 (English)
6. ↑ Scottish Individual Championship 2003 ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
7. ↑ British Chess Championships in The Week in Chess # 615 of August 21, 2006 (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Ketewan Arachamia-Grants results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Ketewan Arachamia-Grants results at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Scotland. In: chess-results.com. September 13, 2016, accessed June 3, 2019 . 
11. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women team line-up with individual results - Women Scotland. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 3, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Ketewan Arachamia-Grants results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ Ketewan Arachamia-Grants results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
14. ↑ Ketewan Arachamia-Grants results at European Club Cups for women on olimpbase.org (English)