Nana Ioseliani ( ka, ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player. She was awarded by FIDE the

Woman Grandmaster FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993. Already in 1978 she was supposed to be on the Soviet woman's team playing at the

23rd Chess Olympiad The 23rd Chess Olympiad ( es, La 23a Olimpíada de ajedrez), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. and a women's tournament, as well a ...

in Buenos Aires. However, the entire team consisted of Georgian players, and Soviet officials replaced Ioseliani - the youngest - for a Russian-born player. Ioseliani was on the Soviet team during the 24th and 25th Olympiads. Later she joined the Georgian team in the 30th Chess Olympiad and again in the 31st and 32nd. Her team won gold all five times. She participated in the three next Olympiads too; Georgia ending in 3rd, 2nd and 4th place, respectively. Her individual score was 65 points from 88 games (+49, =32, -7). In 1979 and in 1980 she was the girls winner of the

European Junior Chess Championship The first chess youth championship in Europe was the yearly European Junior Championship for under age 20. It was played from 1971–2002. FIDE officially introduced the European Junior Championship in 1970 at their Annual Congress and so the 19 ...

. She has twice won the candidate's tournament to play for the

Women's World Chess Championship The Women's World Chess Championship (WWCC) is played to determine the world champion in women's chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE. Unlike with most sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, wh ...

. In 1988 she challenged defending champion

Maia Chiburdanidze Maia Chiburdanidze ( ka, მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2 ...

, and lost by 8½ to 9½ (+2, =11, -3). In 1993 she played Xie Jun, and lost by 2½ to 8½. She has won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship four times. Ioseliani also played for Georgia in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship, scoring 1½/7 on board 2. Since 2003, Ioseliani has taken a break from chess playing, and is an entrepreneur in Prague. In 2021, Ioseliani appeared in the documentary Glory to the Queen alongside Nana Alexandria,

Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a former Soviet and Georgian chess player, and the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster in 1978. She was the fifth women's ...

, and

. In 1978 she was acting in a cinematography too. In a short comed
Pereryv
she was a chess player, who beat all her male colleagues.

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* * * * 1962 births Living people Soviet female chess players Female chess players from Georgia (country) Chess International Masters Chess woman grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Sportspeople from Tbilisi {{USSR-sport-bio-stub