Nana Alexandria


Nana Alexandria, 1970
Association	Georgia Georgia
Born	October 13, 1949 Poti , Soviet Union
title	International Women's Champion (1966) Women's Grandmaster (1976)
Current Elo rating	2342 (October 2019)
Best Elo rating	2415 (January 1988)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Nana Alexandria ( Georgian ნანა ალექსანდრია; born October 13, 1949 in Poti , Georgia ) is a Georgian chess player.

Life

Nana Alexandria 1979 in Rio

Alexandria and Gaprindashvili, 1980 Chess Olympiad in Malta

Nana Alexandria won the Soviet Women's Chess Championship in 1966, 1968 (split) and 1969 . She has been the Women's Grand Master since 1976 . In 1979 she was third in the women's interzonal tournament in Rio de Janeiro when Nana Iosseliani won.

She won the interzonal tournament in Ohrid in 1971 and was able to qualify twice as a challenger for the women's world chess championship. Both times, however, she could not win the world title. In 1975 she lost to Nona Gaprindashvili (+3, = 1, –8), in 1981 she failed with a draw (+4, = 8, –4) to Maia Tschiburdanidze .

Nana Alexandria is listed as inactive at FIDE because she has not played an Elo-rated game since the Across the Generations tournament in Chelyabinsk in December 2005 . She rarely appears as an active player because she has taken on official duties as a women's representative at FIDE .

In the Soviet Union, after Alexandria, a clothing material and a type of perfume were named "Nana". Like the “Nona” variety named after Gaprindashvili, the perfume was traded in chess-piece-shaped bottles. To commemorate Alexandria's successes, a chess festival in Pori bears the name "Nana Alexandria Cup". The Tbilisi chess club NTN Tbilisi was also named after the abbreviations of Gaprindashvili, world champion Tigran Petrosjan and Alexandria.

Alexandria traveled to the 9th Seniors World Chess Championship in Gladenbach in 1999 , but was not allowed to take part because on January 1, 1999, she had not yet reached the required age. Instead, she got a job as a commentator on interesting games.

National team

Alexandria took part in six women's chess Olympiads with the Soviet Union and won with the team in all competitions in 1969 in Lublin , 1974 in Nice , 1978 in Buenos Aires , 1980 in Valletta on Malta , 1982 in Lucerne and 1986 in Dubai . She also won the individual ranking on the reserve board in 1969, on the second board in 1974, on the third board in 1978 and in 1982 on the second board.

societies

In the Soviet Club Championship Nana Alexandria played in the 1970s and 1980s, the women's board of Burewestnik and won with the team competition in 1976. In 1996 she won with Merani Tbilisi the European Club Cup for women.