Zurab Sturua
| Zurab Sturua | |
|---|---|
| Country | Georgia |
| Born | 8 June 1959 |
| Title | Grandmaster (1991) |
| FIDE rating | 2502 (August 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2605 (January 1999) |
Zurab Sturua (born 8 June 1959) is a Georgian chess grandmaster (1991). He is married to fellow chess IM Nino Gurieli.
Sturua won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1985[1] and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002.[2]
Sturua won the Masters Open of the Biel Chess Festival in 1991 and 1996.[3] He tied for 1st–5th with Jaan Ehlvest, Christopher Lutz, Gyula Sax and Aleksander Delchev at Pula 1997.[4] In 1998, he tied for 7th–11th with Giorgi Bagaturov, Ioannis Nikolaidis, and Ashot Nadanian in the Zonal tournament in Panormo, Crete, which was the qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999.[5]
In 2005 , Sturua tied for 1st–2nd with Mikheil Kekelidze at the Zayed Open in Dubai, winning the tournament on tiebreak.[6]
Sturua won the over-50 section of the World Senior Championship in 2014 and won the same division at the European Senior Championship in 2015.
References
- ^ "Campeonato de Georgia" (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Zurab Sturua". OlimpBase. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ "Biel International Chess Festival: Previous winners". Biel Chess Festival. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Pula op 11th 1997". 365Chess.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (1998-11-09). "The Week in Chess 209: Zonal 1.5 Panormo, Crete". London Chess Center. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- ^ "Zayed Open INT. Chess Ch. Ramadan2005, Dubai, UAE". Chess-Results. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
External links
- Zurab Sturua chess games at 365Chess.com
- Zurab Sturua player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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