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| Aug-08-04 | | F47: "Nona Gaprindashvili (born March 5, 1941) is a Georgian chess player, and a former women's world chess champion (1962-1978). Born in Zugdide, Georgian SSR, she was the strongest player of her generation." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_G... |
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Dec-29-04
 | | Benzol: Nona Terentievna Gaprindashvili
Awarded the IM title in 1962 and the GM title in 1980.
She also holds WIM title (1961) and WGM title (1976) and was USSR Women's champion in 1964, 1973-74, 1981 (joint) and 1983 My information has her birth date as 3rd May 1941. |
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| May-21-05 | | Caissanist: Gaprindashvili seems to have spawned a remarkable women's chess culture in her hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia. For about ten years, roughly 1975-85, the majority of the world's top women players were girls and young women from Tbilisi, who had grown up hearing about "Nona the Great". This ultimately proved her undoing, since in 1978 she lost her women's world chamption title to one of her proteges (Maya Chiburdanidze). She was never able to challenge for the title again, but she didn't hit her peak as a player until ten years later. Probably she would have stayed champion at least that much longer had she not been such an inspiration to a generation of Georgian girls. |
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| May-22-05 | | Ted Zeppelin: Wasn't it Mayo or Nona whom Fischer said he could offer Knight odds? |
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| May-23-05 | | Caissanist: It was Nona. Actually, Fischer said that he could give knight odds to any woman, "even Nona". This was in 1962, when such a statement was not as obviously ridiculous as it would be later. |
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| Jul-23-05 | | Appaz: Her bio should be corrected. She was awarded the GM-title in 1978: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_G... |
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| Aug-23-05 | | Helios727: But didn't Fischer chicken out when the Russians offered to have her play him with knights odds? |
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Aug-23-05
 | | Honza Cervenka: M. Tal: "Fischer is Fischer. But knight is knight!":-D Bobby's statement was pretty ridiculous even back in 1962. Nona was already then a player of strong IM or even GM level. She was absolutely dominating among women and her results in competitions with men were quite good too. For example, she won Hastings Challengers tournament 1963/64 scoring 6.5/9 and next year scored 5/9 in main tournament. She showed her class also at Gothenburg 1967 (6/9; 3rd place behind Efim Geller and Rolf Martens), Gori 1968 (6/10; tied 4th place with Eduard Gufeld, behind Tal, Geller and Bukhuti Gurgenidze), Dortmund 1974 (8/11; tied 3rd place with Mato Damjanovic, behind Laszlo Szabo and Victor Ciocaltea), Sandomierz open 1976 (7.5/11; tied 2nd place with Rainer Knaak, behind David Bronstein), Lone Pine 1977 (6.5/9; tied 1st place with Yuri Balashov, Oscar Panno and Dragutin Sahovic) or Dortmund 1978 (7.5/11; tied 2nd place with Ray Keene, behind Ulf Andersson). I don't think that Bobby could beat this lady giving her Knight odds. |
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Aug-23-05
| | Honza Cervenka: Nona also won the tournament at Reggio Emilia 1982/83 scoring 8/11 ahead of Karel Mokry, Georg Danner and Mario Bertok and tied for the 1st place (7/11) in B-tournament at Wijk aan Zee in 1987 (with Ivan Farago and Luc Winants, ahead of Ian Rogers, William Watson and Jeroen Piket). In 1985 she tied for the 2nd place (behind Leonid Yudasin) with Krum Georgiev and Atanas Kurtenkov at Albena with score 7.5/13. |
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| Aug-24-05 | | Resignation Trap: <Honza Cervenka> I just ordered the book by Gaprindashvili: "I Prefer Risk" (in russian). Do you have this book, and if so, what do you think of it? |
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Aug-25-05
| | Honza Cervenka: <Resignation Trap> No, I don't have it yet. But I think that Nona deserves attention. She was very strong player even in men's competition (probably somewhat better than her chessmetrics rating sugests - see http://www.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Pla...) and she was undoubtedly the most influential person for development of women's chess of all time (with all respect to Maia Chiburdanidze and Polgar sisters). Vera Menchik was a rarity in her time (although she inspired Nona) but Nona Gaprindashvili started great chess boom among women and not only in Georgia. |
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| Sep-10-05 | | percyblakeney: <She was very strong player even in men's competition> Seems like she still is:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Sep-11-05
 | | WTHarvey: Here is a little collection of puzzles from Nona's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/gapr.html |
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Sep-12-05
 | | keypusher: People should check out the article <percyb> linked to -- quite interesting and lots of good pictures. |
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| Sep-12-05 | | Eastfrisian: Nona is the mother of GM Valerian Gaprindashvili (born: January 16, 1982). |
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Sep-15-05
| | Honza Cervenka: <percy> Impressive and very fighting performance by Nona. Score +6-2=1, clear 1st place and performance 2510 in age 64 need no comment. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | RookFile: Yeah, she's almost as good at Bobby
Fischer was at the age of 13. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | ughaibu: Nowhere near Geller or Tal then. |
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Sep-15-05
 | | Sneaky: 13 year old Geller? 13 year old Tal? I didn't know that either Geller or Tal were prodigies. Oh wait, I'm sorry, you were just talking stupid trash again. I should have guessed. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | ughaibu: Sneaky: You're correct. I've decided on a policy of posting "stupid trash" in response to RookFile's irrelevent mentions of Fischer on the pages of other players. Like the idea? |
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Sep-15-05
| | Sneaky: OK, I understand. It almost makes sense. I do it myself--respond to a dumb post with one three times as dumb, to illustrate a point. Unfortunately I find that usually my point is lost and all I've done is contributed to the overall level of dumbness, but I perfectly understand the frustration that causes one to act that way. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | RookFile: Bobby Fischer at age 13 is 2520, according to chessmetrics. Nona should be very proud. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | ughaibu: According to Chessmetrics she didn't take up competitive chess until she was 18, also courtesy of Chessmetrics, among 13 year olds J.Polgar and Karjakin are in a class of their own. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | RookFile: Wow, to think that she's reached the
level of chess that Bobby Fischer began his professional career at, is just awe inspiring. I bet that Smyslov would have a hard time playing her, nowadays, too. |
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| Sep-15-05 | | ughaibu: RookFile: is there some point you're trying to make, other than reinforcing your image as a brain-dead, howling at the moon Fischer psychotic? |
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