Rusudan Goletiani

Rusudan Goletiani (Georgian რუსუდან გოლეთიანი; born September 8, 1980 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia ) is a Georgian- American chess player.

Life

Rusudan Goletiani comes from Abkhazia, a region of Georgia, in the from 1992 there was a civil war in the war her mother died. In May 2000, she succeeded in emigrating to the United States, first to Brighton Beach on Coney Iceland, later in the Westchester County, north of New York. Although she was one of the world's best chess players in 2000, it took four years before she was allowed to participate in national championships. In 2004 she received the Samford Fellowship, a two-year scholarship for chess players. Since June 2006, it operates in Winchester, NY Westchester Chess Academy. She is the mother of two children.

Achievements

In 1994 she won the U14 World Cup in Szeged, 1995, the U16 World Cup in Guarapuava, Brazil, 1997, the Under-18 World Championship in Yerevan. In the U20 European Championship in 1998 in Yerevan, she was behind Sopio Tqeschelaschwili second. By a split with Nino Churzidse first place in a zone tournament in Georgia in 2000, she qualified for the Women's World Cup 2000 held in New Delhi. There separated them in the first round against Nana Iosseliani. In 2003, she won at the Continental Cup in San Cristobal, Venezuela, and thus qualified again for a Women's World Cup. In the 2004 discharged in Elista tournament she was disqualified in the first round against Corina - Isabela Peptan. In 2005 she won the U.S. Women's Championship in San Diego. For the U.S. women's national team, she played for the first time at the Chess Olympiad in 2006, where she on the third board in the fourth place in the team with Grandmaster norm 8.5 points from 12 games fetched ( 6, = 5, -1). At the Chess Olympiad in 2008 it reached with the U.S. team to third place and also received an individual silver medal for her loss partie free result of 9 out of 11 on the third board ( 7 = 4 -0 ).

It bears the title of Grand Master of the women ( WGM ) and fulfilled at the Chess Olympiad 2008, the last required norm for the title of International Master of Men, which was conferred in June 2009. Your current Elo rating is 2366 (as of November 2010), so that they would be behind Anna Zatonskih and Irina Krush on the third place in the U.S. Elo ranking of women, but is regarded as inactive, since they since the U.S. Women's Championship October 2009 has played no -evaluated lot more. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2403 in October 2006, which ranked number 50 meant to the women's world rankings of FIDE.