Giorgi Bagaturov (born November 28, 1964) is a Georgian-Armenian

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grandmaster. He is a three-time

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and won the World Senior Championship's over-50 section in 2016.

Chess career

In 1997, Bagaturov tied for first through third place with Stanislav Savchenko and Alexander Moroz in the Danko Chess Tournament in

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. He played for Georgia in the

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of 1998. In 1998 tied for 7th–11th with Zurab Sturua, Ioannis Nikolaidis, Angelos Vouldis and Ashot Nadanian in the Zonal tournament in Panormo,

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, which was the qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999. In 2000 he tied for second through sixth place with Roman Slobodjan, Ventzislav Inkiov, Leonid Gofshtein and Stefan Đurić in the

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Chess Festival. In 2008 he tied for second/third place with Tamaz Gelashvili in the

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International tournament. In 2011, he won the Thessaloniki International Open "Alexander the Great". On the May 2011

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list, Bagaturov's

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was 2459.

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* 1964 births Living people Chess players from Georgia (country) Armenian chess players Georgian people of Armenian descent Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors World Senior Chess Champions {{Georgia-chess-bio-stub