Lela Javakhishvili is Georgia Women's Chess Champion 2014

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2014

Hello everyone,

Third seed Lela Javakhishvili has won the 71st Georgia Women's Chess Championship held at the Palace of Chess, from February 18-March 1, in Tbilisi. She has won the title before in 2007 and 2001 as well.

Javakhishvili scored 9.5 points from 11 rounds without a loss and won the title ahead of Khurtsidze Nino (2456) and Khotenashvili Bela (2527) who took second and third places respectively. 

The second and third places were decided only in the last round though Lela won the title with a round to spare a full 1.5 points ahead of the rest of the field. (Official website)




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Georgia Chess Stars Maya Lomineishvili, Lela Javakhishvili in SOCAR ad Video

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013  

Hi everyone, 

Here's a cool advertisement by oil company SOCAR featuring Georgian chess players Maya Lomineishvili and Lela Javakhishvili. Maya Lomineishvili  has been Georgia national chess champion five times. Lela Javakhishvili has several individual chess gold medals. The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Neft Şirkəti) is the state-owned oil and natural gas corporation of Azerbaijan.






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