Meri Arabidze
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| Meri Arabidze | |
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 Arabidze in 2013 | |
| Country | Georgia |
| Born | 25 February 1994 (age 30) Samtredia, Georgia |
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| FIDE rating | 2457 (October 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2466 (January 2024) |
Meri Arabidze (Georgian: მერი არაბიძე; born 25 February 1994 in Samtredia, Georgia)[1] is a Georgian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
Career
[edit]She won three titles at the World Youth Chess Championship: girls under-10 in 2004, girls under-12 in 2005, and girls under-18 in 2011. Arabidze also won three times at the European Youth Chess Championship, in the categories girls under-10 in 2004, girls under-12 in 2006, and girls under-14 in 2008.
Arabidze earned the Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title in 2004, Woman International Master (WIM) in 2009, Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012, and International Master (IM) in 2014.[2][3] Europe champion 2023
In 2014, at the Moscow Open, she won the tournament G, a round-robin event for female students.[4][5]
Arabidze reached the quarterfinals of the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, after sequentially knocking out Elisabeth Pähtz, Yaniet Marrero Lopez and Viktorija Cmilyte. Then she lost to Harika Dronavalli.
She was part of the Georgian team which won the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015. In this competition she also won the individual gold medal for board 3.[6] She played for the Georgian national team also in the Women's European Team Chess Championship in 2013 and 2015, winning a team bronze medal in 2015.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Interview with Meri Arabidze". sochi2015.fide.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Arabidze, Meri". FIDE.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "List of titles approved by the 83rd FIDE Congress (1-9 September 2012)". FIDE.com. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ Moscow-Open 2014 G. chess-results.com.
- ^ Popova, Galina (12 February 2014). "Moscow Open 2014 attracts over 1700 competitors". ChessBase.com. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "Georgia takes gold in Women's World Team Chess Championship". Chessdom.com.
- ^ "European Women's Team Chess Championship :: Meri Arabidze". OlimpBase.org. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
External links
[edit]- Meri Arabidze rating card at FIDE
- Meri Arabidze chess games at 365Chess.com
- Meri Arabidze player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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