Maka Purtseladze ( ka, მაკა ფურცელაძე; born 18 February 1988) is a

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n chess player. She received the

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of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and International Master (IM) in 2005.

Biography

From 1997 to 2006, Maka Purtseladze represented Georgia in the

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s and

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s, in which she won five medals: gold (in 2005, in World Youth Chess Championship in the U18 girls group), 2 silver (in 2003, in the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls group and in 2005, in European Junior Chess Championship in the U18 girls group) and 2 bronzes (in 2004, in World Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls group and in the European Youth Chess Championship in the U16 girls group). In 2005, she shared with Sopiko Khukhashvili the first place in the Georgian Junior Chess Championship in the U20 girls group. In 2006, she shared with

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and

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3rd place in the Georgian Women's Chess Championship after winners

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and Nana Dzagnidze. Four times participated in

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s (2005, 2010-2011, 2013), which best result achieved in 2005 in Chişinău, where having taken the 16th place and qualifying for the Women's World Chess Championship. In 2006, Purtseladze participated in

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system and in the first round lost to

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