Lewan Panzulaia

Lewan Panzulaia, Warsaw 2013
Association	Georgia
Born	February 26, 1986 Tbilisi
title	International Master (2002) Grand Master (2005)
Current  Elo rating	2553 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2629 (January 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Lewan Panzulaia ( Georgian ლევან ფანცულაია , born February 26, 1986 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian chess player .

Life

Lewan Panzulaia at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden

In 2002 he became U-16 world champion . His greatest success so far was in 2007 when he won the Dubai Open in front of Qədir Hüseynov tied on points . In 2008 he was Georgian individual champion in Tbilisi. In 2005 he took part in the World Chess Cup . With wins against Vadim Milov and Surya Shekhar Ganguly , he reached the third round, in which he failed to Boris Gelfand .

Panzulaia has been a grandmaster since 2005 . He fulfilled the required standards (all with over-fulfillment) in August and September 2003 at the European Izmir Economy University Grand Prix, a month later at the European Club Cup in Rethymno and in June 2005 at the European individual championship in Warsaw . In February 2015, it is located behind baadur jobava in second place of the Georgian rating list .

Team chess

Panzulaia took the Georgian national team at the Chess Olympiads in 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 in part, also on the team's World Cup 2005 and the European Team Championships in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. He reached 2007 in Heraklion , the third highest individual score on the third board. He took part in the European Club Cup in 2003 with Tbilisi and in 2005 with I&A Tbilisi , and in 2003 he achieved the second-best result on the sixth board. In the Spanish team championship he played in 2007 for CA Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco Mérida . Panzulaia won the Swedish team championship in 2018 with Malmö AS .

Web links

Commons : Lewan Panzulaia  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Lewan Panzulaia on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
2. ↑ Lewan Panzulaia's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Lewan Panzulaias results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Lewan Panzulaias results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Lewan Panzulaia's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Lewan Panzulaia's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)