Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant

Ketevan Arachamia - Grant ( born July 19, 1968 in Otschamtschire, Abkhaz ASSR, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union Ketevan Arachamia, georgian ქეთევან არახამია ) is a Georgian chess champion. At the German Chess Federation and the World Chess Federation FIDE will Ketevan Arakhamia Grant wrote.

Life

Ketevan Arachamia married 1996 chess player Jonathan Grant ( b. 1966 ) and moved to Edinburgh in the same year. However, until 2008, she continued to perform in Georgia. In January 2008 she joined the Chess Federation.

Chess success

In 1986 she was awarded the title of International Master of Women ( WIM ), 1987 the title of Grand Master of the ladies ( WGM ). After 1993 she became an International Master of Men (IM), in March 2009, she received the title of Grandmaster (GM). The required standards they reached in August 1996 in London at the competition Women Veterans v Foxtrot, in October 2007 at the Open in Calvia and at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden in 2008.

In the years 1983 and 1984, she won the Women's Championship of the Georgian SSR. In 1985 she won in Dobrná (Czech Republic), the FIDE World Chess Championship U20. In 1990 it was the third time champion of the Georgian SSR and was in Podolsk Soviet Singles Champion of women. In 1991 she won in Canberra the Doeberl Cup. In 1993 she won the interzonal tournament in Jakarta, 1995, the inter-zone tournament in Chisinau. In 2003, she was only in Edinburgh British Ladies Champion and later in the year, again in Edinburgh, shared with the Scottish Grand Master Paul Motwani Scottish champion. This was the first time that it was possible for a woman to win the Scottish championship. At the British Men's Singles Championship 2006 in Swansea, she was behind Jonathan Rowson second. British woman Singles Champion, she was a total of four times, after 2003, nor in 2004, 2006 and 2007. In August 2009, she won the tournament Baltic Queen (Category 8) in Saint Petersburg with 6 points from 9 games.

Your Elo rating is 2390 (as of March 2014), their highest ever was 2506 in July 2009 which was on the 12th place in the WTA rankings, the third place in the Scottish Elo ranking and first place in the Scottish Women's rankings..

Chess team

National

At the Chess Olympiad in 1990 in Novi Sad, it achieved for the Soviet national team on the third board a result of 12 points from 12 games and reached the second place team. Then ( last seen in 2002 in Bled) they went to Georgia. With Georgia, they won in 1994 ( in Moscow) and 1996 ( in Yerevan ) won the gold medal. At the Olympic Games 2008 in Dresden, 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk and 2012 in Istanbul, she played in the Scottish Open team. Arachamia - Grant took the Georgian selection part in five European Team Championships for women and won the competition in 1997 in Pula. In 1997 she participated in the World Team Championship.

Chess club

In the British Four Nations Chess League ( 4NCL ) Arachamia Grant played in the 1995/96 season for the Midland Monarchs, since 1996 she plays ( interrupted by a commitment to 3Cs in the 2006/07 season and three seasons in which they no game played ) at Wood Green (since 2008 Woodgreen Hilsmark Kingfisher ), with whom she won the 4NCL 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2012. In Germany she plays in the women's Bundesliga since 2006 for the OSG Baden -Baden, with which it 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the women's team championship won. She also plays in Georgia for Interplast Tbilisi and in Romania for CS Politehnica Iasi - Cotnari.

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