(1961-01-17) 17 January 1961 (age 63) Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (1984)
Women's World Champion
1978–1991
FIDE rating
2500 (May 2024) [inactive]
Peak rating
2560 (January 1988)
Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgian: მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan. Chiburdanidze is the second woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE, which took place in 1984. She has played on nine gold-medal-winning teams in the Women's Chess Olympiad.[1]
^Only her compatriot Nona Gaprindashvili has played on more: 11 Chess Olympiads. See OlimpBase Overall Statistics
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MaiaChiburdanidze (Georgian: მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a...
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she lost to Nona Gaprindashvili (+3 =1 −8). In 1981 she drew with MaiaChiburdanidze (+4 =8 −4), who retained her title as champion. Alexandria played...
World Chess Championship. In 1988 she challenged defending champion MaiaChiburdanidze, and lost by 8½ to 9½ (+2, =11, -3). In 1993 she played Xie Jun, and...
to challenge for the women's world title, and in 1991 she defeated MaiaChiburdanidze of Georgia, who had held the title since 1978, by a score of 8½–6½...
inception in 1957 through 1986. Soviet players Nona Gaprindashvili and MaiaChiburdanidze from Georgia became the first two women to earn the Grandmaster (GM)...
awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE, after Nona Gaprindashvili and MaiaChiburdanidze. Polgar was the youngest woman to become grandmaster at the time,...
1969) Alexander Chernin (born 1960) Konstantin Chernyshov (born 1967) MaiaChiburdanidze (born 1961) Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908) Vladimir Chuchelov (born...
(peak years 1990–1996) Emanuel Lasker, 2596 (peak years 1907–1914) MaiaChiburdanidze, 2585 (peak years 1978–1988) David Bronstein, 2582 (peak years 1950–1954)...
players in the world. Skripchenko finished a half point ahead of MaiaChiburdanidze, the former Women's World Champion, and also defeated her in their...
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of Nona Gaprindashvili from 1962 to 1978 and the 13-year reign of MaiaChiburdanidze from 1978 to 1991. Emanuel Lasker, the World Chess Champion for 27...
William Albert Fairhurst vs Murray Chandler, 83rd New Zealand Ch, 1976 MaiaChiburdanidze vs Samuel Reshevsky, Vilnius (1978), Vilnius LTU, rd 4 Morphy Numbers...
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