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| BIDMONFA: Nona Gaprindashvili GAPRINDASHVILI, Nona
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gaprindashv...
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Mar-30-06
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| percyblakeney: Gaprindashvili is advancing on the April list, she now has 2375 which is her highest rating in five years. |
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| Jun-14-07 |
| Petrosianic: Nona actually got the GM title in 1978, not 1980. It's commonly believed that she was awarded the title merely for having been Women's World Champion, and that Susan Polgar is the first woman to have earned the title through the Norm system, but this is not the case. Nona *did* earn the title through the norm system, but some discretionary judgment was used. The whole story can be read in Pal Benko's column in the January 1979 issue of Chess Life & Review. Nona had the norms, but was a game or two short of the 24 game requirement. (And the 2500 Elo requirement didn't exist in the pre-inflation days of 1978). Some may remember how Frank Anderson missed the GM title in 1958 when he was prevented by illness from showing up for a game that would have given him the GM title even had he lost it. He had the norms, but was a game short of the overall requirement, and never got the title. 20 years later, things had loosened up enough that a little discretionary judgment could be used in borderline cases. I've heard (but am not completely certain) that Edmar Mednis got his title the same way. No discretion was used in Polgar's case, she had all the requirements, pure and simple. But Nona was the first female GM, and certainly earned it. |
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Aug-25-07
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| percyblakeney: A nice Gaprindashvili win from an ongoing tournament in Arnhem: [Event "Euwe Stimulans"]
[Site "Arnhem, the Netherlands"]
[Date "2007/8/21"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ziska, Helgi Dam"]
[Black "Gaprindashvili, Nona"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. f3 Bg7 5. Be3 dxe4 6. fxe4
e5 7. d5 cxd5 8. exd5 Nf6 9. h3 O-O 10. Qd2 Nbd7 11. Bc4
Ne8 12. O-O-O Nd6 13. Bb3 b5 14. h4 a5 15. a3 b4 16. axb4
axb4 17. Na2 Rxa2 18. Bxa2 Qa5 19. Kb1 Ne4 20. Qe1 Ba6
21. Bd2 Nxd2+ 22. Qxd2 Ra8 23. Rh3 Bd3 24. Qxd3 Qxa2+
25. Kc1 Bh6+ 26. Re3 Nc5 27. Qe2 Ne4 0-1
click for larger viewhttp://www.euwe-stimulans.nl/conten... |
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Sep-04-07
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| keypusher: In the early 1960s she seems to have been as far ahead of other women as Judit Polgar is now. Not only did she beat Bykova +7-0=4, she also won the preceding Candidates' tournament undefeated (+10-0=6). |
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| Sep-04-07 |
| RookFile: That is true, Gaprindashvili was head and shoulders above the other woman players in her prime. |
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| Jan-14-08 |
| Resignation Trap: Kasparov isn't the only one getting involved in politics: http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080114... . |
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| May-03-08 |
| brankat: Happy Birthday Nona! |
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May-03-08
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| wanabe2000: Happy Birthday Ms. Gaprindashvili. I met you in Lone Pine CA at the Louis D. Statham tournament in 1977 where you were on your way to becoming a Grandmaster. Thanks for the great games over the years. |
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| Oct-23-08 |
| sleepkid: < Petrosianic: Nona actually got the GM title in 1978, not 1980. It's commonly believed that she was awarded the title merely for having been Women's World Champion, and that Susan Polgar is the first woman to have earned the title through the Norm system, but this is not the case. Nona *did* earn the title through the norm system, but some discretionary judgment was used.> Technically Tal, Evans, and Bisguier had not earned the GM title when they received it. Discretionary judgement was used in awarding them the titles as well. Tal was not even an International Master, nor had he even made a norm in an International tournament, however he was the champion of the Soviet Union. At the 1957 FIDE congress he was granted the GM title, as were Evans and Bisguier (who had missed the final norm he would have needed by a half point) in a "truly Solomon-like decision" (Tal). |
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| Mar-22-09 |
| GrahamClayton: The cup awarded to the country with the best combined male/female results at a Chess Olympiad is the Nona Gaprindashvili Cup. |
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May-03-09
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| wordfunph: Happy Birthday to the first woman to achieve the men's Grandmaster title... GM Nona Gaprindashvili. |
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| May-03-09 |
| blackburne: achieve the men's Grandmaster title because win the women world championship. The first woman to achieve the GM title with 3 GM norms is Zsuzsa Polgar in 1991 |
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| May-03-09 |
| WhiteRook48: happy birthday! |
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| May-03-09 |
| blackburne: Gaprindashvili was the first woman who won a international tournament, in 1977 http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/11%2...
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| May-03-09 |
| theodor: dear Nona, best wishes from bulgaria - we love you! |
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May-03-09
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| talisman: happy birthday champ. |
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| May-03-09 |
| AnalyzeThis: Is it true that she's only rated 2064 FIDE? That seems ridiculously low. |
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| May-04-09 |
| nescio: <AnalyzeThis: Is it true that she's only rated 2064 FIDE?>
No. According to FIDE her current rating is 2349: http://ratings.fide.com/seek.phtml?... |
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| Jun-26-09 |
| Octal: Is this the same person who wrote the great puzzle book "Imagination in Chess"? |
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Jun-26-09
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| hms123: <Octal> No, it's not. Imagination in Chess: How to Think Creatively and Avoid Foolish Mistakes - Paata Gaprindashvili (It may be P Gaprindashvili) |
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Jul-15-09
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| Honza Cervenka: <Current FIDE rating: 2064> Well, there are two Nonas on the FIDE ELO list. One of them is this Nona Gaprindashvili, former woman world champion and grandmaster from Georgia born in 1941 and her current rating is 2349. The other Nona Gaprindashvili is a young girl (b. 1991) from Russia (probably from St. Petersburg as she played in several tournaments there included junior city championships) with current rating (July 2009) 2042 and maximum 2089 in January 2009. See http://ratings.fide.com/seek.phtml?... |
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Jul-15-09
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| Honza Cervenka: <blackburne: achieve the men's Grandmaster title because win the women world championship. The first woman to achieve the GM title with 3 GM norms is Zsuzsa Polgar in 1991> Well, this is technically true but you should know that conditions for achieving GM title were radically different and I would say much harder before early 1980s when current regulations were introduced. Retrospectively Nona Gaprindashvili would have become a man's GM easily before 1980 if current regulations for GM norms would be applied then and she fulfilled some GM norms in 1980s after becoming a GM too. The same can be said about Maia Chiburdanidze as well. |
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Nov-08-09
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| Tabanus: News from Condino, Valle del Chiese (Italy): Nona Gaprindashvili, the World Senior Champion 2009! http://www.arcoworldchess.com/risul... |
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| Jan-19-10 |
| Everett: Did she have Bronstein as a trainer at some point? |
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