Zurab Sturua

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Zurab Sturua
CountrySoviet Union → Georgia
Born (1959-06-08) 8 June 1959 (age 62)
TitleGrandmaster (1991)
FIDE rating2530 (March 2022)
Peak rating2605 (January 1999)

Zurab Sturua (born 8 June 1959) is a Georgian chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1991. He 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 Master Open of the Biel Chess Festival in 1991 and 1996.[3] He tied for 1st–5th places 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 Seniors' Championship in 2014[7] and won the same division at the European Seniors' Championship in 2015, 2016, and 2019.[8][9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Campeonato de Georgia". ajedrezdeataque.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  2. ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Zurab Sturua". OlimpBase. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Biel International Chess Festival: Previous winners". Biel Chess Festival. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  4. ^ "Pula op 11th 1997". 365Chess.com. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  5. ^ Crowther, Mark (1998-11-09). "TWIC 209: Zonal 1.5 Panormo, Crete". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Zayed Open INT. Chess Ch. Ramadan2005, Dubai, UAE". chess-results.com. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
  7. ^ Shah, Sagar (2014-11-13). "World Senior brings back legends". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Four new European Senior Champions crowned for 2015". Chessdom. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2021-02-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Crowther, Mark (1998-11-09). "TWIC 1127: 16th European Senior Championships 2016". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  10. ^ Cmiel, Thorsten (2019-04-19). "European Senior Championships conclude in Rhodes". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2021-02-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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