Giorgi Bagaturov is a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

-Armenian

Armenians

Armenian people or Armenians are a nation and ethnic group native to the Armenian Highland.The largest concentration is in Armenia having a nearly-homogeneous population with 97.9% or 3,145,354 being ethnic Armenian....

 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster.

He won the Georgian Chess Championship

Georgian Chess Championship

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 in 1989, 1995 and 1999 and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

 of 1998.

In 1997 he tied for first through third place with Stanislav Savchenko

Stanislav Savchenko

Stanislav Savchenko is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster . He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, but was knocked out in the first round by Francisco Vallejo Pons....

 and Alexander Moroz

Alexander Moroz (chess player)

Alexander Moroz was a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster . He was vice-president of the Ukrainian chess federation, president of the chess federation of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and chairman of the youth committee of the Ukrainian chess federation as well as International Arbiter.His best single...

 in the Danko Chess Tournament in Yenakiieve

Yenakiieve

Yenakieve , is a city in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine and carries a special status within the region designated into a separate city rayon . The city is located on the Krynka River about from the oblast's administrative center, Donetsk.Yenakiieve is an important regional centre of coal...

. In 1998 tied for 7th-11th with Zurab Sturua

Zurab Sturua

Zurab Sturua is a Georgian chess grandmaster .He won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1985 and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004....

, Ioannis Nikolaidis

Ioannis Nikolaidis

Ioannis Nikolaidis is a Greek chess Grandmaster .He won Greek Chess Championship in 1995. and came third in the Balkan Individual Chess Championship of 2002 in Istanbul...

, Angelos Vouldis and Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian

Ashot Nadanian is an Armenian chess International Master , chess theoretician and chess coach....

 in the Zonal tournament in Panormo, Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

, which was the qualifying tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 1999

FIDE World Chess Championship 1999

The FIDE World Chess Championship 1999 was held in Las Vegas, United States, between 31 July and 28 August 1999. The championship was won by Russian Alexander Khalifman, making him the FIDE World Chess Champion.-Format:...

. In 2000 he tied for second through sixth place with Roman Slobodjan

Roman Slobodjan

Roman Slobodjan is a German chess grandmaster. Slobodjan won the 1995 World Junior Chess Championship.In the July 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2534.-External links:...

, Ventzislav Inkiov, Leonid Gofshtein

Leonid Gofshtein

Leonid Gofshtein is an Israeli chess grandmaster.In 1999 he tied for 1st-5th with Mikhail Gurevich, Aleksandar Berelovich, Sergei Tiviakov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov in the open section of the Hoogeveen International tournament...

 and Stefan Djuric in the Arco Chess Festival. In 2008 he tied for second/third place with Tamaz Gelashvili

Tamaz Gelashvili

Tamaz Gelashvili is a chess grandmaster from Georgia. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1999. His highest FIDE rating has been 2623, achieved in October 2007. His national ranking is fourth and he has played for...

 in the Gyumri

Gyumri

Gyumri is the capital and largest city of the Shirak Province in northwest Armenia. It is located about 120 km from the capital Yerevan, and, with a population of 168,918 , is the second-largest city in Armenia.The name of the city has been changed many times in history...

 International tournament. In 2011, he won the Thessaloniki International Open "Alexander the Great".

On the May 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2459.

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