Meri Arabidze ( Georgian: მერი არაბიძე; born 25 February 1994 in
Samtredia
Samtredia ( ka, სამტრედია ) is a town in Imereti, Georgia (country), Georgia, lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni River, Rioni and Tskhenis-Tsqali, west of the capital Tbilisi, and west of Georgia's third largest city K ...
chess
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player who holds the
FIDE titles
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of
International Master
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and
Woman Grandmaster
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.
Career
She won three titles at the
World Youth Chess Championship
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Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015 (OR 2016), the event has been s ...
: girls under-10 in 2004, girls under-12 in 2005, and girls under-18 in 2011. Arabidze also won three times at the
European Youth Chess Championship
The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. History
The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007.
Until 2002 t ...
, in the categories girls under-10 in 2004, girls under-12 in 2006, and girls under-14 in 2008.
Arabidze earned the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title in 2004, Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009, Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012, and International Master (IM) in 2014.
In March 2023 she became European Women's chess champion, with 8.5 out of 11 games.
In 2014, at the Moscow Open, she won the tournament G, a round-robin event for female students.
Arabidze reached the quarterfinals of the
Women's World Chess Championship 2015
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, after sequentially knocking out
Elisabeth Pähtz
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Harika Dronavalli
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.
She was part of the Georgian team which won the Women's
World Team Chess Championship
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2015. In this competition she also won the individual gold medal for board 3. She played for the Georgian national team also in the Women's
European Team Chess Championship
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in 2013 and 2015, winning a team bronze medal in 2015.