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Sopiko Guramishvili

Guramishvili at the Andorra open, 2009
Full name სოფიკო გურამიშვილი
Country Georgia
Born 1 January 1991
Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Woman Grandmaster (2009)
International Master (2012)
Peak rating 2441 (November 2013)

Sopiko Guramishvili (Georgian: სოფიკო გურამიშვილი; born 1 January 1991 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded the Woman Grandmaster title in 2009 and the International Master title in 2012.

Chess career

She finished second in the 2003 World Under-12 Girls Championship and won the 2006 World Under-16 Girls Championship.

In 2004 Guramishvili played a match with Irene Kharisma Sukandar ("Enerpac Chess Match") in Jakarta, consisting in two rapid games and four standard games. She won by 4-2.

She won the bronze medal in the women's World University Chess Championship of 2010 held in Zurich. In January 2012, Guramishvili won the women's round-robin tournament of the Reggio Emilia chess tournament.

In October 2015 Guramishvili won a six-game match with European U16 girls champion Anna-Maja Kazarian by 5,5-0,5 at the Hoogeveen Chess Festival.

Personal life

On 18 July 2015 Sopiko Guramishvili married the Russian-born Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri.

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