Tamar Khmiadashvili

Tamar Khmiadashvili
Khmiadashvili in 1996
CountrySoviet Union → Georgia
Born(1944-11-27)27 November 1944
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Died2019(2019-00-00) (aged 74–75)
TitleWoman Grandmaster (1998)
Peak rating2249 (January 2001)

Tamar Khmiadashvili (Georgian: თამარ ხმიადაშვილი; 27 November 1944 – 2019[1]) was a Georgian chess player, who was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) by FIDE in 1998 for winning Women's Senior Chess Championship. She won the Georgian Women's Championship in 1972, 1975 and 1978, the European Women's Senior Championship in 2010, and the World Women's Senior Championship in 1998, 1999, 2003, 2010 and 2017 (in the 65+ age category). She placed second in the latter event in 1995–1997.[2] In 2007 she was also accorded the FIDE Arbiter title.[3]

Khmiadashvili was fluent in German. She worked as a chess coach in her native city of Tbilisi and was never married.[2]

References

  1. ^ "ს ა მ ძ ი მ ა რ ი". Georgian Chess Federation (in Georgian). 2 November 2019. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b Interview mit GM Tamara Khmiadashvili. teleschach.com (in German). 2008.
  3. ^ "Khmiadashvili, Tamar FIDE Chess Profile". FIDE. Archived from the original on 31 December 2018.

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