Chiburdanidze appeared in the documentary Glory to the Queen alongside Nana Alexandria, Nona Gaprindashvili, and Nana Ioseliani
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Maia Chiburdanidze 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.
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Chiburdanidze appeared in the documentary Glory to the Queen alongside Nana Alexandria, Nona Gaprindashvili, and Nana Ioseliani
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Dresden Olympiad, she played on board 1, for Georgia, that won the gold medal (1st place), and she also won gold medal for best performance (2715 pt)
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Chiburdanidze again reached the semi-finals, where she lost to Antoaneta Stefanova, who went on to win the title
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Only to be knocked out by Zhu Chen of China, who went on to win the title
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Played board 1 for the new Georgian national team that won four gold medals, in 1992, 1994, 1996 and 2008
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Beat Nana Ioseliani in Telavi, Georgia, by 8½–7½
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Which Chiburdanidze won 8½–5½
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Which illustrates a position in one of her games from the 1984 world championship match against Irina Levitina
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Chiburdanidze retained her title by drawing 8–8 with Nana Alexandria, in Borjomi/Tbilisi
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Chiburdanidze was awarded the title of Woman Grandmaster by FIDE
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And a year later she won the women's title
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Before entering the women's world championship cycle of 1976/77
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Born 1961-01-17.
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