Maia Lomineishvili


Maia Lomineishvili at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association	Georgia Georgia
Born	November 11, 1977 Tbilisi , Soviet Union
title	International Master of Women (1995) Grand Master of Women (1996) International Master (2003)
Current Elo rating	2342 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating	2447 (April 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Maia Lomineishvili ( Georgian მაია ლომინეიშვილი ; born November 11, 1977 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian chess player .

Life

Maja Lomineishvili at the 2007 European Team Championship in Heraklion

Maia Lomineishvili studied journalism. Her thesis dealt with the topic of chess psychology . She wrote about chess for a sports magazine, but then decided to pursue a professional chess career. Since 2008 she has been working at the State University in Tbilisi.

successes

In 1991 she won the U14 girls' European championship in Mamaia, Romania , and in 1997 she won the U20 European youth championship in Tapolca, Hungary . She won the Women's Black Sea Championship in Batumi in 2000 (shared with Ana Matnadze and Lilit Mkrtchjan ). In the same year she became the women's student world champion in Varna . She won the Georgian Women's Championship five times: 1996, 1998, 2002, 2009 and 2011. This makes her the record winner among women in Georgia. At the 2004 Women's World Chess Championship in Elista , she was eliminated in the round of 16 against Nana Dzagnidze after she had previously eliminated Alissa Galljamowa , among others .

Maja Lomineishvili at the 2007 European team

With the Georgian women's national team, she took part in the 2004 , 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads . She won the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden with the team and also received an individual bronze medal for her result of 6 out of 9 on the fourth board. In 2009 she participated in the World Team Championship part of the women between 1999 and 2007, she played in five European Team Championships for women. In 2005 she took second place with Georgia, in 2007 she received an individual bronze medal for her result of 4.5 out of 7 on the reserve board.

In Germany she played in the 1990s for Rochade Kuppenheim in the Baden Oberliga and from 1997 to 2004 in the Women's Bundesliga for the Karlsruhe Chess Friends , for whom she also played sporadically in the 2nd Bundesliga from 1999 onwards . She won the European Women's Club Cup in 2004 and 2005 with NTN Tbilisi . At the Club Cup 2006 she received an individual gold medal for her result of 5 points from 6 games on the fourth board of the Georgian club Energy-Investi Sakartvelo . At the Club Cup 2007 she played for Interplast Tbilisi , at the Club Cup 2009 for Samaia Tbilisi . In Turkey she plays for Servergazi .

In 1995 she became the International Women's Champion (WIM). She has held the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM) since 1996 and the title of International Master (IM) since July 2003 . In February 2015 she is ninth in the Georgian Elo ranking of women, most recently she was among the top 25 in the women's world ranking in April 2001 with an Elo rating of 2,439.

Web links

Commons : Maia Lomineishvili - collection of images, videos and audio files

Replayable chess games by Maia Lomineishvili on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Interview from April 6, 2004 on mamuli.net (English) (page no longer available)
↑ List of Georgian women champions on the website of the Georgian Chess Federation ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), as of October 13, 2015 (English)
↑ Interview on chessblog.com from January 23, 2011 (English)
↑ Maia Lomineishvili's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
↑ Maia Lomineishvili's results at the Women's Team World Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
↑ Maia Lomineishvili's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
↑ Maia Lomineishvili's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
↑ Interview by Dagobert Kohlmeyer, December 2000
↑ In a December 2000 interview, she says she has the IM title, but according to the FIDE website this was only applied for at the 2003 FIDE Congress, see http://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?pb = 3 .

personal data
SURNAME	Lomineishvili, Maia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lomineishvili, Maia (FIDE); ლომინეიშვილი, მაია (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Georgian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH	November 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tbilisi

[1] Interview from April 6, 2004 on mamuli.net (English) (page no longer available)

[2] List of Georgian women champions on the website of the Georgian Chess Federation ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), as of October 13, 2015 (English)

[3] Interview on chessblog.com from January 23, 2011 (English)

[4] Maia Lomineishvili's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)

[5] Maia Lomineishvili's results at the Women's Team World Championships on olimpbase.org (English)

[6] Maia Lomineishvili's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)

[7] Maia Lomineishvili's results at the European Women's Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

[8] Interview by Dagobert Kohlmeyer, December 2000

[9] In a December 2000 interview, she says she has the IM title, but according to the FIDE website this was only applied for at the 2003 FIDE Congress, see http://ratings.fide.com/title_applications.phtml?pb = 3 .