Zurab Sturua 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 (1991).

He won the Georgian Chess Championship

Georgian Chess Championship

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 in 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 and 1985 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...

s of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004.

He won the Masters Open of the Biel chess tournament

Biel chess tournament

The first international Biel Chess Festival was held in 1968. A Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977....

 in 1991 and 1996. He tied for 1st–5th with Jaan Ehlvest

Jaan Ehlvest

Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest Jaan Ehlvest (born 14 October 1962 is a chess player, who was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1987 and was named Estonian sportsman of the year in 1987 and 1989...

, Christopher Lutz

Christopher Lutz

Christopher Lutz is a German chess grandmaster and the German chess champion in 1995 and 2001. In 2000 he was a member of the German team that won a silver medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul....

, Gyula Sax

Gyula Sax

Gyula Sax is a Hungarian chess player and International Arbiter , born in Budapest.He was awarded the IM title in 1972 and the GM title in 1974. He was the Hungarian Chess Champion in 1976 and 1977 . In 1971-72, he was the European Junior Champion, and he placed first at Rovinj-Zagreb 1975,...

 and Aleksander Delchev

Aleksander Delchev

Aleksander Delchev is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1994, 1996 and 2001. He participated in five Chess Olympiads with a performance of 60.4% ....

 at Pula

Pula

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 1997. In 1998 he tied for 7th–11th with Giorgi Bagaturov

Giorgi Bagaturov

Giorgi Bagaturov is a Georgian-Armenian chess grandmaster.He won the Georgian Chess Championship in 1989, 1995 and 1999 and played for Georgia in the Chess Olympiad of 1998....

, 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

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 in the Zonal tournament in Panormo, Crete

Crete

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, 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 2005 he tied for 1st–2nd with Mikheil Kekelidze at Dubai

Dubai

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.

On the November 2011 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2524.

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