Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
Number of games in database: 607
Years covered: 1986 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2400
Highest rating achieved in database: 2506
Overall record: +237 -192 =167 (53.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      11 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (133)      B42 B93 B90 B32 B62  Ruy Lopez (60)      C77 C65 C97 C78 C92  French Defense (39)      C18 C11 C16 C19 C10  Sicilian Najdorf (28)      B93 B90  French Winawer (25)      C18 C16 C19 C17  Caro-Kann (25)      B12 B19 B15 B17 B18	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (119)      B40 B45 B22 B33 B83  King's Indian (78)      E92 E60 E73 E97 E81  Sicilian Scheveningen (20)      B83 B81 B85 B80 B84  Sicilian Taimanov (17)      B45 B46 B48 B47  Grunfeld (12)      D78 D73 D70 D91 D85  Modern Benoni (11)      A56 A59 A57 A64 A61

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   K Arakhamia-Grant vs Kosteniuk, 2001 1-0
   Nakamura vs K Arakhamia-Grant, 2007 0-1
   Hebden vs K Arakhamia-Grant, 2006 1/2-1/2
   K Arakhamia-Grant vs Chiburdanidze, 2006 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Smith & Williamson British Championships (2004)
   Gibraltar Masters (2005)
   E.U. Championship and Cork Chess Congress (2005)
   6th European Individual Women's Championship (2005)
   7th European Individual Championship: Women (2006)
   Gibtelecom Chess Festival (2006)
   British Championship (2006)
   European Individual Championships (Women) (2007)
   European Union Championships (2008)
   2008 Olympiad (2008)
   Gibraltar (2008)
   10th European Individual Women's Championship (2009)

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KETEVAN ARAKHAMIA-GRANT (born Jul-19-1968) Georgia (citizen of United Kingdom) [what is this?] Born Ketevan Revazovna Arakhamia in Ochamchira, Georgia (formerly USSR). She was awarded the WIM title in 1986, and won the first World Junior Chess Championship for girls the same year. She won the same event in 1989 and 1990. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 1987 and Grandmaster in 2009. In 1990 she set the stunning record of getting a perfect score of 12/12 at an Olympiad, where she was part of the USSR's silver medal winning team in Novi Sad. Other medals in her collection include the gold from the 1997 European Team Championships, and team gold medals from the Women's Olympiads of Moscow 1994 and Yerevan 1996. Wife of former team captain Jonathan I M Grant, she settled in Edinburgh in 1996. National titles: Georgian champion (w) in 1983, 1984, 1986 (=Sopiko Tereladze) and 1990. British champion (w) in 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007. Scottish absolute champion in 2003 (=Paul Motwani) and 2011. Wikipedia article: Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant

page 1 of 25; games 1-25 of 607  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. K Arakhamia-Grant vs N Eremina   1-0 40 1986 Minsk tt C05 French, Tarrasch 2. Z Nikolin vs K Arakhamia-Grant   0-1 48 1987 Tuzla Interzonal (Women) B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 3. M Litinskaya-Shul vs K Arakhamia-Grant   0-1 66 1987 URS-ch (Women) D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 4. N Gaprindashvili vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 29 1988 Tournament (candidates) D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 5. M Litinskaya-Shul vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 43 1988 Candidates (Women) D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 6. Xie Jun vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 39 1988 World Junior Ch B33 Sicilian 7. K Arakhamia-Grant vs M Litinskaya-Shul   0-1 45 1988 Candidates (Women) E31 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad, Main line 8. K Arakhamia-Grant vs Akopian   ½-½ 34 1989 Moscow GMA-Open D86 Grunfeld, Exchange 9. Kholmov vs K Arakhamia-Grant 0-1 42 1989 GMA Baleares op B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen 10. V Kovacevic vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 64 1989 Palma de Mallorca A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6) 11. K Arakhamia-Grant vs G Zaitshik   0-1 34 1989 Moscow GMA-Open B87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5 12. K Arakhamia-Grant vs I Rogers 1-0 61 1989 World Cup Moscow C41 Philidor Defense 13. O Cvitan vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 34 1989 Moscow GMA-Open D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 14. K Arakhamia-Grant vs Gligoric 1-0 23 1989 GMA op B06 Robatsch 15. Gheorghiu vs K Arakhamia-Grant   ½-½ 16 1989 Moscow GMA-Open D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 16. Yurtaev vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 40 1989 Moscow GMA-op 89\02 D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 17. J Benjamin vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 23 1989 2, Palma de Mallorca GMA op D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 18. Suetin vs K Arakhamia-Grant   ½-½ 30 1989 Espoo KvT B82 Sicilian, Scheveningen 19. E Dizdarevic vs K Arakhamia-Grant   ½-½ 60 1989 Moscow GMA-Open D76 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O Nb6 20. K Arakhamia-Grant vs G Timoshenko   0-1 38 1989 GMA op C67 Ruy Lopez 21. K Arakhamia-Grant vs A Galliamova   0-1 39 1989 Sochi C60 Ruy Lopez 22. Anand vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 29 1990 Oakham B32 Sicilian 23. K Arakhamia-Grant vs F Braga   1-0 32 1990 6, Aosta op (10s) C78 Ruy Lopez 24. A Galliamova vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 38 1990 Azov A04 Reti Opening 25. N Gaprindashvili vs K Arakhamia-Grant   1-0 31 1990 Ch Georgia (w) E73 King's Indian  page 1 of 25; games 1-25 of 607    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Arakhamia-Grant wins | Arakhamia-Grant loses

Dec-21-04    Benzol: Born Ketevan Revazovna Arakhamia in Ochamchira circa 1968 she was Women's World under-16 Champion in 1986 and was awarded the WIM title the same year. Nov-05-05    Calli: Exact birth date is 19.07.68. She won the first World Junior Chess Championship for girls in 1986. This is for players under 20 years old. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_... for complete list <Benzol> Please correct :-) Nov-06-05    Albertan: She married and Englishman and now goes by the name Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant. Here is recent photo of her: http://www.chessscotland.com/photos... Nov-06-05    Cecil Brown: <She married and Englishman> How dare you! She married a Scotsman, which is a different animal altogether! Her husband is Jonathan Grant and I believe they met at an Olympiad. Jun-21-06    offramp: I suppose Olympiads are good places to meet gurlllz. Jun-27-06    harcee sarmiento: i remember her playing 1993? olympiad... 12 wis out of 12 games!! Jun-27-06    harcee sarmiento: <Calli> thanks now i saw at last my one of my fave player. Jul-19-06    chessgames.com: Happy birthday, Ketevan. We don't usually write biographies but in this case we tried to improve it a little. She has a very impressive career, so we may have missed several major accomplishments. Here's a great game of Ketevan's: K Arakhamia-Grant vs Kosteniuk, 2001 Jul-19-06    BIDMONFA: Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant ARAKHAMIA, Ketevan http://www.bidmonfa.com/arakhamia_k... _ Aug-20-06    WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Ketevan's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/arak.html Jan-25-07    Strongest Force: Lets not forget that she just strangled Nakamura in a 100 move game a couple of days ago! Jul-19-08    brankat: Happy Birthday Ketevan! Dec-31-08    Udit Narayan: Very strong chess player...12/12 at the 1990 olympiad speaks for itself...also nice looking lady Jan-26-09    Albertan: Ketevan has gained her third and final male GM norm with her performance at the 2008 Dresden Olympiad .She represented Scotland for the first time at the Olympiad where she scored her third and final GM norm. Her January 2009 rating of 2500 should give her the title (subject to official confirmation). Congratulations Ketevan! Oct-03-09    GrahamClayton: Arakhamia-Grant switched her allegiance to Scotland after failing to make the Georgian women's team. With her GM norm at the Dresden Olympiad, she becomes the first UK female player to gain the GM title. Apr-23-10    GrahamClayton: <Cecil Brown>She married a Scotsman, which is a different animal altogether! <Cecil Brown>, Scots are not animals! Jul-19-10    Remizatorul: Some gallery pics here... http://remizatorul.weebly.com/13/po... Feb-15-11    Octavia: <Remizatorul> Thanks for all those nice pics! Keti also plays in the 4ncl where she plays on bd 1 & 2 ? & the frauenbundesliga. BadenBaden are leading the latter league where she plays on bd 2, 3 & 4 Sep-19-11    Octavia: Congratulations, Keti, for winning the Scottish championship once again! This time she is sole leader! Mar-18-13    waustad: I was reading some commentary about the OSG Baden Baden winning the championship of the Frauenbundesliga again and noted that the author was bemoaning that there should be more German players on the team. Looking at the roster: http://www.schachbund.de/SchachBL/b... I suspect that the only native German speaker on the team who actually played this season is the Austrian Eva Moser. When they get together I wonder what language is spoken most, German, English or Russian. Apr-12-13    0o0o0o0o0: She is playing in the Edinburgh congress at the moment. It started tonight. First GM that I have ever seen in the flesh. So, aye, I can confirm that they are actually real people :) Apr-12-13    Alien Math: From http://www.zugzwang.de/ OSG Baden-Baden page Jun-17-13    Octavia: Congratulations for being Scottish blitz champion & beating Mickey Adams & Arkady Naiditsch in the last 2 rds!

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