RUSUDAN GOLETIANI (born Sep-08-1980, 44 years old) Georgia (federation/nationality United States of America) [what is this?] WIM (1997); WGM (1999); IM (2009). Rusudan Goletiani (რუსუდან გოლეთიანი) was born in Sukhumi, the main city of Abkhazia in what was Soviet Georgia. At age ten she won the USSR U12 (Girls) Championship. In 1994 she won the World U14 Championship for Girls. Other notable successes include the World U16 and U18 Championships for Girls. She finished third at the World Championship zonal tournament in 1999, but lost in the first round of the Women's World Championship (Knockout) event in 2000. She won the Pan American Women's Championship in Venezuela in 2003, which also qualified her to compete in the Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004), where she again bowed out after the first round. In 2005 she won the US Women's Chess Championship, winning in a play-off over Tatev Abrahamyan. She represented the USA on board 3 in the 2006 and 2008 Women's Olympiads, winning individual silver and team bronze in the latter event. She also played board 3 for the USA in the 2009 World Women's Team Championship. She won her IM norms at the 2006 US Championship (single norm) and at the Dresden Olympiad (Women) (2008) (double norm). Goletiani emigrated to the United States in 2000 & resides in Hartsdale, NY. Wikipedia article: Rusudan Goletiani Last updated: 2022-04-06 08:55:34

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page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 185  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. R Goletiani vs S Ionov   ½-½ 39 1995 Berliner Sommer A04 Reti Opening 2. M Wahls vs R Goletiani   1-0 32 1995 Berliner Sommer B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 3. R Goletiani vs F Hoppe   1-0 48 1995 Berliner Sommer A06 Reti Opening 4. K Mayr vs R Goletiani   1-0 45 1995 Berliner Sommer B83 Sicilian 5. J Fongers vs R Goletiani   0-1 38 1996 EU-ch U18 Girls B42 Sicilian, Kan 6. Y Xu vs R Goletiani   1-0 44 1996 Wch U20 Girls B42 Sicilian, Kan 7. R Goletiani vs L Javakhishvili   0-1 50 1998 GEO-ch (Women) A07 King's Indian Attack 8. R Goletiani vs L Javakhishvili   1-0 41 1998 GEO-ch U20 Girls A07 King's Indian Attack 9. N Dzagnidze vs R Goletiani   0-1 53 1998 GEO-ch U20 Girls A30 English, Symmetrical 10. N Dzagnidze vs R Goletiani   1-0 58 1998 GEO-ch (Women) A36 English 11. D Abasheev vs R Goletiani   0-1 38 1999 RUS-Cup03 Geller Memorial B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 12. E Danielian vs R Goletiani   0-1 49 1999 Tbilisi zt (Women) A30 English, Symmetrical 13. A Rychagov vs R Goletiani   1-0 47 1999 RUS-Cup03 (Geller mem) A60 Benoni Defense 14. R Goletiani vs R Olsen   1-0 33 2000 28th World Open A04 Reti Opening 15. A Wojtkiewicz vs R Goletiani   1-0 37 2000 28th World Open A30 English, Symmetrical 16. L F Rust vs R Goletiani 0-1 19 2000 28th World Open A07 King's Indian Attack 17. R Goletiani vs M Esserman   1-0 42 2000 28th World Open C66 Ruy Lopez 18. R Goletiani vs P Gilruth   ½-½ 41 2000 28th World Open A06 Reti Opening 19. B G Smith vs R Goletiani   ½-½ 61 2000 28th World Open B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 20. R Goletiani vs Kaidanov   0-1 35 2000 28th World Open D05 Queen's Pawn Game 21. S Ritvin vs R Goletiani   0-1 42 2000 28th World Open B20 Sicilian 22. R Goletiani vs A Ivanov   0-1 21 2001 29th World Open A07 King's Indian Attack 23. D Shapiro vs R Goletiani 1-0 48 2001 29th World Open E00 Queen's Pawn Game 24. R Goletiani vs G Zaichik   ½-½ 48 2001 29th World Open A04 Reti Opening 25. B Annakov vs R Goletiani   1-0 23 2003 31st World Open A60 Benoni Defense  page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 185

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 3 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-07-05    yoozum: You can IM me on yoozum, if that's any easier. Jan-07-05    iron maiden: All right, I'm on right now but I can't promise you a good game. ;-) Jan-07-05    iron maiden: My handle is "powerslave617," btw. Jan-07-05    yoozum: You're going to have to help me out a bit, i reallyd on't know what i'm doing on chess21 Jan-07-05    chesswhizkid: <Well, in a way, we do take out our aggression over the chessboard. My team is AMAZING this year. We beat the "best" team in our league 5-0 on Monday and are in clear first place, which makes us the complete overdogs of our half of MA. It's all thanks to this tiny freshman who plays for our board 1. He makes fun of you while he's crushing you. "Wow, that was a really bad move...but then again, it's typical of you." "You're the second worst chessplayer I've ever met." "OK, now you're going to lose a lot of pieces and get mated.." "Hahaha, you suck." We like him, though.> Haha thats pretty funny yoozum. Yeah our team is pretty much overkill here in central Jersey, we're 4-0 and every victory was 5-0 for us. Our fouth board can beat most of the first boards from the other schools. (With a few exceptions of course). A couple years ago, we had this crazy pothead of a senior on first board, and he was the funniest kid I ever knew. Once when playing in the state finals he goes, "You moron. What the f*** were you thinking? *makes his move* Now you're really f***ed." He said this so loud (this wasn't uncommon) that all the coaches heard, and the other kid was about to cry, and well... our man got himself ejected from the tournament. lol. Jan-07-05    apple head: Rusu is a cool player. Jan-08-05    yoozum: <chesswizkid>, lol. Our board 1 isn't nearly as intimidating because he's a short and stubby freshman with an attitude problem. Feb-04-05    passivefianchetto: i wana play a fellow member of chessgames i think it would be intresting i dont get to play many people but i study the game most of my free time would you all mind if i plaedw ith you sometime im not so grate at blitz but i think im a grate classic i tryed to get a chess club started at my school but no one really played that well so i kinda gave up on them i felt as the more i played them the worse i got lol how many ppl do u know that fall for scholars mate 10 times in a row well i know a school full of them even after i showed them what i was doing Oct-29-05    Open Defence: <Chessgames.com> May we please have a bio for the US Womens Champion Nov-14-05    SickedChess: pic of Anna Zatonskih, Rusudan Goletiani and Harmen Jorkman http://home.tiscali.nl/xp147427/Har... Nov-16-05    ChessVip: Rusudan is playing the American Continental for Women http://www.fenag.net Dec-29-05    EmperorAtahualpa: <Sicked Chess> Not "Jorkman", but Harmen Jonkman. Feb-28-06    WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles taken from Rusudan's chess games: http://www.wtharvey.com/gole.html She's the defending Women's Champion of the US Chess Championship (http://www.uschesschampionship.com/ March 1-12, 2006): Mar-10-06    Chesstosterone: Congratulations to her. Nice victory today and he is likely to be in the final of the women's section to defend her US title. A pic of her: http://www.newyorkmasters.com/playe... And Anna Zatonskih will be her opponent in the final, so the picture <SickedChess> found (look above) is in fact a picture of this year's finalists. Mar-11-06    BishopBerkeley: Is Ms. Goletiani slowly being transformed into a blue Queen here? http://www.uschesschampionship.com/... (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :) Mar-11-06    BishopBerkeley: Ah, I see that the host website is rendering the individual photos unviewable from some browsers, so my earlier remark will probably make no sense at all! Here is the main photo page at which the photo referenced above can be viewed (presumably, unless they play the same re-routing trick with this URL!) You may have to scroll down to see this particular image (captioned "The cover-up approach by defending women's champ Rusa Goletiani"): http://www.uschesschampionship.com/... (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :) Mar-13-06    BIDMONFA: Rusudan Goletiani GOLETIANI, Rusudan http://www.bidmonfa.com/goletiani_r... _ Mar-19-06    EmperorAtahualpa: Beautiful pictures of WGM Rusudan Goletiani!! http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/monarch20... http://www.chessbase.com/images2/20... http://www.newyorkmasters.com/playe... http://www.ntcfoundation.org/images... http://www.nscfchess.org/images/coa... http://www.worldopen.com/Photos2004... http://users.otenet.gr/~otoenpah/gi... http://www.jaque.tv/goletiani-champ... http://www.fide.com/ratings/pl/1360... http://www.chessbase.com/news/2006/... I think I'm in love. :) Mar-19-06    PinkPanther: That last picture is of the back of her head....why even include that one? Aug-12-06    ChessVip: Goletiani in Curacao! http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/ne... Mar-10-07    Supergrandmaster: Only 3 pages of kibitzing? Che bella esta, no? Jul-09-08    Supergrandmaster: I wish to correct my incorrect usage: che bella e! La donna e piu bella! Dec-05-08    AgentRgent: A very impressive Olympiad for Ms. Goletiani! +7 -0 =4 on board 3 for the bronze medal USA team. Congratulations! She caught my attention a while back due to the similarities in our openings (Reti/KIA with white, Benko with black, although she does play the Kan Sicilian which I do not), and I've become a bit of a fan. Nov-28-11    whiteshark: Wiki-Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusuda... Dec-23-21    Albertan: Ladies Knight podcast with Russ Goletiani: https://new.uschess.org/news/ladies... 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