Remembering Nino Khurtsidze
1 min readApr 24, 2018
The world of chess is in grief as IM Nino Khurtsidze, one of the most talented players of her generation, succumbed to illness. She died yesterday at the age of 42.
Nino Khurtsidze 1975–2018
1991 she won the U16 Girls’ World Championship
1992 she became U20 European champion and U18 Vice World Champion of the girls
In 1993 and 1995 she was first in the Girls U20 World Championships, and second in 1994
Georgian national champion among women five times: 1989, 1993, 2005, 2006 and 2013
In 1998, she even won the Georgian national championships in open competition