{"id":25267,"date":"2024-02-20T20:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=25267"},"modified":"2024-02-21T09:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:19:27","slug":"georgian-womens-championship-lela-javakhishvili-wins-fifth-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/georgian-womens-championship-lela-javakhishvili-wins-fifth-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Women\u2019s Championship: Lela Javakhishvili wins fifth title"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lela Javakhishvili emerged as the winner of the Georgian Women\u2019s Championship 2024. One of the most titled Georgian chess players, Lela clinched her fifth national title. She previously won this event in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Georgian Women\u2019s Chess Championship 2024, a 10-player round-robin with classical time control, took place from February 9-18 in the country\u2019s capital Tbilisi.<\/p>\n

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As is often the case in  Georgian Women\u2019s championships, it was a very close race among the top-rated players and the members of the national team IM Lela Javakhishvili, GM Nino Batsiashvili, IM Meri Arabidze and GM Bella Khotenashvili.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Chess Federation of Georgia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Lela Javakhishvili delivered an outstanding performance, scoring 7.5\/9. Most importantly, the native of Telavi defeated her main rivals, Nino Batsiashvili and Meri Arabidze, in the direct encounters to clinch the title. The champion became the only unbeaten player in the event. Nino Batsiashvili (7\/9) and Meri Arabidze (6.5\/9) stayed in the contest for the most part but could not keep up with the champion and took silver and bronze, respectively.<\/p>

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IM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Javakhishvili, Lela<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2438<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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7\u00bd<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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2<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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GM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Batsiashvili, Nino<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2447<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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IM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Arabidze, Meri<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2461<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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6\u00bd<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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GM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Khotenashvili, Bella<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2464<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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6<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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5<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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IM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Melia, Salome<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2355<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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6<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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WFM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Mgeladze, Kesaria<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2040<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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WCM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Tsetskhladze, Mariam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1881<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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3<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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8<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Donghvani, Nia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2029<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2\u00bd<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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9<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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WFM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Lomaia, Diana<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2001<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2\u00bd<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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WFM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Kirtadze, Anastasia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2089<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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2<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Photos: <\/span>Georgian Chess Federation Facebook<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lela Javakhishvili emerged as the winner of the Georgian Women\u2019s Championship 2024. One of the most titled Georgian chess players, Lela clinched her fifth national title. She previously won this event in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2016. The Georgian Women\u2019s Chess Championship 2024, a 10-player round-robin with classical time control, took place from February 9-18 in the country\u2019s capital Tbilisi. As is often the case in  Georgian Women\u2019s championships, it was a very close race among the top-rated players and the members of the national team IM Lela Javakhishvili, GM Nino Batsiashvili, IM Meri Arabidze and GM Bella Khotenashvili. Lela Javakhishvili delivered an outstanding performance, scoring 7.5\/9. Most importantly, the native of Telavi defeated her main rivals, Nino Batsiashvili and Meri Arabidze, in the direct encounters to clinch the title. The champion became the only unbeaten player in the event. Nino Batsiashvili (7\/9) and Meri Arabidze (6.5\/9) stayed in the contest for the most part but could not keep up with the champion and took silver and bronze, respectively. Final standings: 1 IM Javakhishvili, Lela 2438 7\u00bd 2 GM Batsiashvili, Nino 2447 7 3 IM Arabidze, Meri 2461 6\u00bd 4 GM Khotenashvili, Bella 2464 6 5 IM Melia, Salome 2355 4 6 WFM Mgeladze, Kesaria 2040 4 7 WCM Tsetskhladze, Mariam 1881 3 8   Donghvani, Nia 2029 2\u00bd 9 WFM Lomaia, Diana 2001 2\u00bd 10 WFM Kirtadze, Anastasia 2089 2 Photos: Georgian Chess Federation Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[223,298],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-25267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-georgia","tag-national-championships-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25267"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25324,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions\/25324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=25267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}