Selected Games and Tournament Information.

WGM Nazi Paikidze was born Oct-27-1993 Georgia. Her March 2011 FIDE Rating 2425, number 54 in the world, (number 6 under 21 years of age).

She has lived in Moscow since 2006 and is a citizen of both Georgia and Russia. Prior to that Nazi lived in Tbilisi where she played for the Georgia Chess Federation.

In October 2014 she became a member of the United States Chess federation and will play in the Women's US Championship in 2015 as the fourth seed. She is a member of the University of Baltimore-Maryland County Chess Team and will play in the final four in 2015.

Championships:

She won the U10 European Youth (Girls) Championship (Budva) in 2003 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments..., the U12 European Youth (Girls) Championship (Herceg Novi) in 2005 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments..., the U14 European Youth (Girls) Championship (Sibenik) in 2007 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments..., and the U16 European Youth (Girls) Championship in 2008.

She competed in the U10 World Youth (Girls) Chess Championship (Chalkidiki) in 2003, http://www.365chess.com/tournaments..., the U12 World Youth (Girls) Chess Championship (Heraklio) 2004 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... and the U12 World Youth (Girls) Chess Championship (Belfort) 2005 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments.... She won the U14 World Youth (Girls) Chess Championship (Batumi) 2006 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments..., and the U14 World Youth (Girls) Chess Championship (Antalya) 2007 where Nazi won with a score of 9.5/11 (+8-0=3). Games in PGN and crosstables of the event:http://wycc2007.tsf.org.tr/componen... She, also, won the U16 World Youth (Girls) Chess Championship (Vung Tau City VIE) 2008 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments.... Picture from that event: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/f...

2010. Saint Petersburg. 1st place – N. Paikidze with 7 out of 9. http://ruchess.ru/upload/report/naz... to qualify for the Super Final. The 60th Russian Women's Chess Championship Super Final took place in the Moscow Central House of Chess from November 16 to 27, 2010. Reception pictures before the start of the Russian Women's Championship: http://chess-news.ru/node/538. Nazi wins Round One against Valentina Gunina and Round Two against Tatiana Kosintseva. In round 5, in a lucky game, she beats the World Champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk. Games by Round: http://www.russiachess.org/online/2... Chessbase Feature: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.... Picture from Round 7: http://www.russiachess.org/images/s.... Needing a win in the 11th and last round, against Vera Nebolsina, to become the new Russian Women Champion, Nazi lost and finished a disappointing 4th place. Overall a good tournament and possibly another IM norn (her third). See all her games: Russian Championship Superfinal (Women) (2010)/Nazi Paikidze GhessOK Games with Rybka Analysis: http://www.chessok.com/?p=24366 The Closing Ceremony: http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/... http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/...

Nazi participated in the 65th Georgian Women's Championship 1/10/2011-1/23/2011 scoring 5/12. Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr42551.a.... Games at: http://www.365chess.com/tournaments...

Nazi is participating in the <2015 USA Women's Championship> in St. Louis. She defeated the current USA Women's Champion in Round 3 and is off to a fine start with +1-0=2.

Chessgames Crosstable: US Championship (Women) (2015)

Chessbase Reports: http://en.chessbase.com/post/us-cha...

Official Site: http://www.uschesschamps.com/2015-u...

United States Champion 2016: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/all...

Chessgames Crosstable: US Chess Championship (Women) (2016)

Pictures and Articles: http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/... http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/... http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/... http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/... http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/...

World Junior Girls Championship:

Nazi competed in the 2008 World Junior (Girls) Championship in Gaziantep TUR placing equal 2nd behind IM Dronavalli Harika. Her last round win over WGM Mariya Muzychuk gave Nazi 9/13 points and a podium finish. Notable was her second round win over WFM Anastasia Bodnaruk 2394 RUS. See the Official Website for the games in PGN: http://wjcc2008.tsf.org.tr/#. Picture from the event: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/f...

Nazi competed in the 2009 World Junior (Girls) Championship in Puerto Madryn, ARG scoring 7/13 (+6-5=2) placing equal 16th (17th overall) in a field of 45. See 10 of her games: 48th World Junior Championship (Girls) (2009)/Nazi Paikidze. (Rd.11 draw, Rd.12 win, Rd.13 draw not included). Notable were her two loses to the tournament equal first winners WGM Swaminathan Soumya IND 2297 and WIM Deysi Cori-Tello PER 2361.

Nazi competed in the <2011 World Junior (Girls) Championship> in Chennai, India: She placed third with a score of +8-2=3. Chessgames Crosstable: World Junior Championship (Girls) (2011) Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr54523.a...

European Individual Women Championships:

She participated in the European Championship (Women) (2009)/Nazi Paikidze in St.Petersburg, RUS scoring (+4-3=4). All her games are included.

Nazi had a result of (+3-4=4) in the European Individual Championships (Women) Mar 6-18, 2010 held in Rijeka, Croatia. Selected games are included. For all her games see: European Championship (Women) (2010)/Nazi Paikidze.

Tournaments:

Nazi played in three Moscow Open Tournaments prior to her success in 2010. Here are her results:

In 2007 she started 53rd (2167) and finished 53rd with a score of 6/9 (+5-2=2.

In 2008 she started 27th (2311) and finished 22nd with a score of 6/9 (+5-1=4). Her loss was to IM Dronavalli Harika.

In 2009 she started 35th (2250) and finished 40th with a score of (+4-2=3) in a stronger field. She had draws with WGM Yang Shen and WGM Mariya Muzychuk.

Nazi Paikidze, in a very strong field, won the Women's Section of the Moscow Open (Feb-Mar 2010) over IM Salome Melia (GEO 2431). Both scored 7.5/9 to lead the field and Nazi won on tie-breaks. Selected games included. See also: Chessbase News Moscow Open:http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr299.... See some of the games in PGN: http://www.moscowchessopen.ru/eng/i.... Some games at Chessgames are presented: Moscow Open (2010)/Nazi Paikidze

She scored +2-2=2 in the 2010 Russian Team Championship in Dagomys, Russia Apr 1-10, 2010. Notable were her wins over GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant and WGM WGM Natalija Pogonina. See all her games: Russian Team Championship (Women) (2010)/Nazi Paikidze.

Nazi Paikidze has won the Moscow Women's Chess Championship (March 2010) with a score of 7.5/9. After 7 rounds: http://icce.su/page.php?id=337. http://icce.su/index.php?page=9. Final Standings and games in PGN:Game #5,19,38,52,68,84,101,117,133: http://icce.su/tournament.php?id=37... Picture from the tournament: http://icce.su/pictures/upload/imag... http://icce.su/page.php?id=325

Nazi Paikidze placed equal third, seventh place on tie-breaks, with a score of 6.5/9 (+6-2=1) in the Polonia Wroclaw Chess Festival held in Wroclaw, Poland Jun 26-Jul 4, 2010. She had a win over GM Balogh in the last round and achieved her first IM norm. She also won against IM Simacek, the 2009 Czech Champion and WGM Zawadzka. She,also, had a draw against GM Baklan: See all her games: Wroclaw Chess Festival (2010)/Nazi Paikidze. Quote from the tournament. "The biggest surprise was Georgian Nazi Paikidze who took 7th place despite a weak start (1/3). In the final rounds she won against WGM Jolanta Zawadzka, IM Pavel Simacek and finally smashed GM Csaba Balogh. She didn't only take the prize for best women and player under 2400, but also made an IM norm". 2010-07-02
Crosstable with tie-breaks: http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne.... She finished ahead of 6 Grandmaters and 5 Women Grandmasters. Her best performance to date. http://www.turniej.polonia.wroclaw..... http://www.turniej.polonia.wroclaw.....

The Biel Master's Tournament was held in July 2010 with Nazi being invited. She scored (+5-3=3), however, only played 1 opponent with a higher rating,a loss to GM Vitali Golod ISR (2585). Her round 11 win over Thomas Kuhn SUI (2218) was a fine attacking game. Although missing rounds 1 and 2, see her other games at: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/par....

Nazi placed first in the 2010 Russian Higher League (Women): http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/kalend... held August and September 2010. See all the games: http://www.russiachess.org/online/2...

Best female player at the 3rd Karen Asrian Memorial Tournament October 2010 in Armenia was WGM Nazi Paikidze, GEO, 2376, with a score of 5.0/9. She achieved a draw in the 6th round with GM Evgeny E Vorobiov 2565 RUS who placed 5th in the tournament. http://www.chessfed.am/index.php?La...

The Chigorin Memorial (Oct.2010) was held held in St. Petersburg, RUS: Rd.6 Chessbase Report with games in PGN: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... ...Nazi lead the Womens Group with 3.5/6 after the sixth round and won the Tournament with 5.5/9 (+3-1=5) and another IM norm. Her score included two wins over GM's, 4 draws with GM's and a win over an IM for a TPR of 2563. Her only loss was to a GM. Notable was her win over GM Valeriy Neverov, UKR 2519 in round six: http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/kalend.... Crosstable and Games in PGN do not include rounds 8 and 9:http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/kalend... Chessbase Report with pictures and All games in zipped PGN: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail....

Nazi competed at the Aeroflot Tournment, Moscow February 2011. Here is a picture at the start of Round 1 were she achieved a draw: http://www.russiachess.org/images/s.... She had her only win in Round 6 over GM Daniele Vocaturo from ITA rated 2570. Vocaturo recently won Tata Stee (Group C)in Wijk aan Zee, NL. Here are all her games from the tournament where she scored (+1-5=3): Aeroflot Open (2011)/Nazi Paikidze.

Pictures:

Nazi at the 2016 US Championships: http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/...

Nazi 2015 at the US Championship: http://www.uschesschamps.com/sites/... http://en.chessbase.com/Portals/4/f...

Nazi 2014: http://www.uschess.org/images/stori... http://www.niclas-huschenbeth.de/im... http://www.niclas-huschenbeth.de/im...

Nazi at the Russian Team Championships 2011: http://www.russiachess.org/images/s...

Nazi at the "Blondes vs Brunettes" 4/1/2011 http://chess-news.ru/sites/default/... where she was unbeaten to place equal first on the victorious "Brunette" team..

Nazi at the World Blitz Tournament in Moscow 2010: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2010/...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/299110... http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/.... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...

Nazi at the SuperFinal Nov 2010: http://www.russiachess.org/images/s... http://www.russiachess.org/images/s... http://www.russiachess.org/images/s...

Nazi Paikidze Tournaments listed in 365chess.

Dimitrov http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... Moscow_Petrosian_mem_U18_ http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... Young_Stars_of_the_World_2008 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... 66th_ch-GEO http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... 10th_EICC_w_2009 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... Heroes_Day_Cup_Masters_2009 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... WCh_w_Blitz_Final_2010 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... MTO_Biel SUI 2010 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... 5th_Open_2010 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... 11th_TCh-RUS_Women_2010 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments... Angora_GM_Schev_2010 http://www.365chess.com/tournaments...

See http://www.365chess.com/players/Naz... for a more complete selection of games.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nazipaiki/

Moscow/Russia

Superfinal 60th Russian Championship Women Round (2) 2010.11.17

Paikidze, Nazi-Kosintseva, Tatiana

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 c5 5. d5 O-O 6. e4 b5 7. e5 Ne8 8. cxb5 exd5 9. Qxd5 Nc7 10. Qd6 Re8 11. Bf4 a6 12. Kf2 Bxc3 13. bxc3 axb5 14. Nh3 Ne6 15. Bxb5 Qa5 16. Qd3 Nc6 17. Rhe1 Ba6 18. Bxa6 Rxa6 19. Bd2 Rb6 20. Kg1 Rb2 21. Bc1 Rb7 22. f4 Qa4 23. Re4 Qb5 24. Qg3 Nf8 25. f5 d5 26. Bh6 g6 27. Ree1 Ne7 28. Rf1 Qd7 29. e6 fxe6 30. fxe6 Nxe6 31. Rae1 Ng7 32. Bxg7 Kxg7 33. Qe5 Kg8 34. Ng5! 1-0