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Maia Chiburdanidze

1961 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2024). Maia Chiburdanidze is the 81st most popular chess player (down from 78th in 2024), the 117th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Georgian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Maia Chiburdanidze ranks 81 out of 461. Before her are Lev Polugaevsky, Szymon Winawer, Alexander Kotov, Semyon Alapin, Elisaveta Bykova, and Levon Aronian. After her are Pal Benko, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Louis Paulsen, and Gideon Ståhlberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Maia Chiburdanidze ranks 140. Before her are The Edge, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Meloni, Victoria Nuland, Ahmed Aboutaleb, and Tony Rominger. After her are Walter Mazzarri, Byron Scott, Susan Kilrain, Imad Khamis, E. G. Daily, and Leyla Zana.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Maia Chiburdanidze ranks 117 out of 406. Before her are Grigory Neujmin (1886), Zhores Medvedev (1925), Alex Metreveli (1944), Grigol Abashidze (1914), Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (1893), and Zurab Zhvania (1963). After her are Pharasmanes I of Iberia (-50), Reşid Mehmed Pasha (1780), George XI of Kartli (1651), Nino Burjanadze (1964), Irakli Kobakhidze (1978), and Solomon II of Imereti (1772).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Georgia

Among chess players born in Georgia, Maia Chiburdanidze ranks 4. Before her are Tigran Petrosian (1929), Nona Gaprindashvili (1941), and Nana Alexandria (1949). After her are Genrikh Kasparyan (1910), Nana Ioseliani (1962), Zurab Azmaiparashvili (1960), Sergei Movsesian (1978), Bela Khotenashvili (1988), Nana Dzagnidze (1987), Ana Matnadze (1983), and Salome Melia (1987).

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