Merab Gagunashvili 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...

 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 and Georgian Champion

Georgian Chess Championship

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 in 2004.

In 2001, he won the silver medal in the World Junior Chess Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....

. In 2009 he tied for 3rd-8th with Anton Filippov

Anton Filippov

Anton Filippov is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster .In 2007 he tied for 1st-3rd with Vladimir Egin and Timur Gareev in the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 2008 he won the 1st Kuala Lumpur Open Championship and tied for 4-8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Constantin Lupulescu, Nidjat Mamedov and...

, Elshan Moradiabadi, Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko is a Ukrainian–Belgian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship...

, Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov

Alexander Shabalov is an American chess grandmaster, the multiple winner of the U.S. Chess Championships; he was the 2007 US Champion. He was born in Latvia, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost of objective soundness...

 and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana Challenge Tournament in Colombo

Colombo

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. In 2010 he won the Tbilisi Municipality Cup. In 2011 he tied for 1st-4th with Gadir Guseinov, Evgeny Gleizerov

Evgeny Gleizerov

Evgeny Gleizerov is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In 2001 he tied for 1st-3rd with Stanislav Voitsekhovsky and Michal Krasenkow at Barlinek. He tied for 3rd-6th with David Berczes, Yuriy Kuzubov and Pia Cramling in the Rilton Cup 2008/2009. He came first at Parla 2009...

 and Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....

 in the 19th Fajr

Fajr

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 Open Chess Tournament.

He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004

FIDE World Chess Championship 2004

The FIDE World Chess Championship, 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13.It was won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who beat Michael Adams in the final by a score of 4½-3½...

, but was knocked out in the first round by Smbat Lputian

Smbat Lputian

Smbat Gariginovich Lputian is an Armenian chess Grandmaster. He was first at tournament in Berlin 1982, shared first at Athens 1983 and at Irkutsk 1983, first at Sarajevo 1985 and at Irkutsk 1986, shared first at Hastings 1986-87 and first at Dortmund 1988...

. He played in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

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s of 2002, 2004 and 2006.

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