by GM Alex Baburin Georgian GM Maia Chiburdanidze was born in 1961. In 1978 she defeated Nona Gaprindashvili and became the 7th Women’s World Chess Champion, a title she kept until 1991.Maia is clearly one of the greatest female...
Chess Queen Tactic
White to move. How should White proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
World Champion’s Tactic
White to move. How should White proceed? Source: ChessToday.net Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Game analysis
Maia Chiburdanidze (2500) – Susan Polgar (2510)Novi Sad Olympiad, 1990Notes from my best-selling book Breaking Throughhttp://www.chesscafe.com/polgar/polgar.htm 1.e4 It used to be hard to prepare against Maia because she had a very wide opening repertoire. 1…c5 I knew that this...
Maia Chiburdanidze Cup
International Open Women Chess Tournament Maia Chiburdanidze Cup 04.06-14.06.2009Tbilisi, Chess Palace(Georgia, 0179 Tbilisi, M.Kostava str. 37a). Please download Regulations of the championship in PDF format.Please download Registration form. REGULATION 1. ORGANIZERS – Georgian Chess Federation– Fund of Chess Developmentwww.gcf.org.ge...
Chiburdanidze loses first game
(Danielian focusing before round 3) GM Chiburdanidze (2516) – IM Danielian (2496) [D11]Women’s Grand Prix (4), 10.03.2009 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.e3 e6 5.Bd3 dxc4 6.Bxc4 Nbd7 7.0–0 Bd6 8.Nbd2 0–0 9.Bb3 c5 10.Qe2 cxd4 11.exd4 Nb6...
Chiburdanidze ko’d Kosteniuk in key Olympiad game
Kosteniuk, A (2525) – Chiburdanidze, M (2489) [B61]Dresden Olympiad GER (5), 17.11.2008 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Bd7 7.Qd2 Rc8 8.f4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Qa5 10.0–0–0 Rxc3 11.Qxc3 Qxc3 12.bxc3 Nxe4 13.Bh4 Nxc3 14.Rd3...
A classic WWC match
Xie Jun – Maia ChiburdanidzeWomen’s World Championship, Manila (3), 1991Ruy Lopez [C96] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 In her book Chess Champion from China, Jun wrote: “I was pleased to see a main-line Ruy Lopez….” This...
Humpy chasing 3 ELO points
This is the legendary GM Maia Chiburdanidze With one round to go, Humpy Koneru is the leader among women in the 2007 Dubai Open. Her appearance in this event has received a lot of International attention because she is...