Tbilisi, Batumi set for European Chess Championships for men and women
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Two cities in Georgia are set to host hundreds of competitors from around Europe for this year's European Championships among men and women participants.
Over 300 contestants are about to converge in the Black Sea city of Batumi for nearly two weeks of competition within the European Individual Chess Championships, before European Women's Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships take place in capital Tbilisi.
The former tournament is set to run between March 16-28 and host 311 players from 34 countries. The roster of competitors will include 30 entrants from Georgia.
Georgia's current Women's World Blitz Champion Nana Dzagnidze will be among leading competitors in the women's tournament in Tbilisi. Photo: World Chess Federation.
With a prize pool of 100,000 EUR, the Individual Championships can also be entered by women contestants, despite its title.
It will be followed with the Women's Rapid and Blitz tournament in Tbilisi between March 30-April 1, which will feature 80 players from 15 countries including "all leading players from Europe", said the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Georgia.
Among Chess Olympiad winners and World- and European Champions, the competition will see Women's current World Blitz Champion Nana Dzagnidze from Georgia.
Georgian female chess player Nana Dzagnidze has won the World Blitz Chess Championship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Georgian Sport Ministry said, in total the Georgian sportsmen have gathered 885 prizes this year, which is the record number in the Georgian sport history.
Georgian female players claimed the principal honours at the European chess Club Championship (ECC) after the Chess Club NONA from the seaside city Batumi finished first among a dozen teams in the tournament held in Antalya, Turkey.
Georgia's Nino Batsiashvili has become the latest chess player from Georgia to attain the title of an international chess Grandmaster after finishing strongly in the newly concluded Isle of Man International tournament on Sunday.
Georgian female chess player Nana Dzagnidze has won the European Individual Women’s Chess Championship in the Latvian capital of Riga today.
Georgia’s Grand Master Nana Dzagnidze has claimed second place and silver medal at the European Women's Chess Championship that concluded this week in Slovakia.
Georgia’s Black Sea resort city of Batumi is about to turn into a central location for international chess for two weeks, with thousands of participants travelling for this year’s international Chess Olympiad opening on Monday.
The Georgian women’s team has won the bronze medal at the 43rd World Chess Olympiad hosted at Batumi Sport Palace from 24 September to 5 October.
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi now boasts a brand-new school for aspiring chess players with an unveiling of the Maia Chiburdanidze Chess Academy in the city on Thursday.