Rusudan Goletiani

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Rusudan Goletiani at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Association GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia (until 2001) United States (since 2001)
United StatesUnited States 
Born September 8, 1980
Sukhumi , Soviet Union
title International Master of Women (1997)
Grand Master of Women (1999)
International Master (2009)
Current  Elo rating 2278 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2403 (October 2006)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Rusudan Goletiani ( Georgian რუსუდან გოლეთიანი * 8. September 1980 in Sukhumi , Abkhazia ) is a Georgian - American chess player .

Life

Rusudan Goletiani comes from Abkhazia, a region of Georgia, in which a civil war raged from 1992, in whose acts of war her mother died. In May 2000 she managed to emigrate to the United States, first to Brighton Beach on Coney Island , and later to Westchester County , north of New York . Although she was one of the world's best chess players in 2000, it took four years before she was allowed to take part in US championships. In 2004 she received the Samford Fellowship , a two-year scholarship for chess players. Since June 2006 she has been running the Westchester Chess Academy in Winchester , NY . She is the mother of two children.

successes

In 1994 she won the U14 girls' world championship in Szeged , in 1995 the U16 world championships for women in Guarapuava , Brazil, and in 1997 the U18 world championships for girls in Yerevan . At the European Youth Championships in the U20 female age group in Yerevan in 1998, she was second behind Sopio Tqeschelashvili . By sharing first place with Nino Khurzidze at a zone tournament in Georgia in 2000, she qualified for the 2000 Women's World Cup , which was held in New Delhi . There she was eliminated in the first round against Nana Iosseliani . In 2003 she won the continental championship in San Cristóbal , Venezuela, qualifying again for a women's world championship. In the 2004 Elista tournament, she was eliminated in the first round against Corina-Isabela Peptan . In 2005 she won the US Women's Championship in San Diego . She played for the US women's national team for the first time at the 2006 Chess Olympiad , where she scored 8.5 points from 12 games on the third board in fourth place for the team (+6 = 5 −1), which is also a grandmaster norm ( GM) meant. At the 2008 Chess Olympiad , she reached third place with the US team and also received an individual silver medal for her lossless result of 9 out of 11 on the third board (+7 = 4 −0). In 2012 she took part in a chess Olympiad for the third time, and Goletiani was also part of the US selection at the 2009 Women's World Team Championship.

She has held the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM) since 1999 and has been International Master (IM) since 2009 . She fulfilled the IM standards at the USA Championship 2006 in San Diego and at the 2008 Women's Chess Olympiad in Dresden . As of January 2015, she ranks fifth on the US women's Elo rating list. With her highest rating to date of 2403, Goletiani was in October 2006 number 50 in the FIDE women's world rankings .

Web links

Commons : Rusudan Goletiani  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Letter from Sam Sloan (English)
  2. ↑ USCF: WGM Rusudan Goletiani (English)
  3. ↑ Westchester Chess Academy ( Memento of February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ GM standard on the website of the chess federation FIDE (English)
  5. ↑ Rusudans Goletiani's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Rusudans Goletiani's results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ IM application on the website of the chess federation FIDE (English)
personal data
SURNAME Goletiani, Rusudan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goletiani, Rusa (nickname); გოლეთიანი, რუსუდან (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian-American chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Sukhumi