Nana Ioseliani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nana Ioseliani

Georgian chess player

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1962

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Georgia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Nana Ioseliani (Georgian: ???? ?????????; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player.
She was awarded by FIDE the Woman Grandmaster title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993. She has twice won the candidate's tournament to play for the Women's World Chess Championship.
In 1988 she challenged defending champion Maia Chiburdanidze, and lost by 8½ to 9½ (+2, =11, -3).
In 1993 she played Xie Jun, and lost by 2½ to 8½.She has won the Women's Soviet Chess Championship four times.
She played in eight Women's Chess Olympiads between 1980 and 2002, winning team gold 5 times in total, twice with Soviet Union (in 1980 and 1982) and three times with Georgia (1992, 1994 and 1996).
Her individual score was 65 points from 88 games (+49, =32, -7).Ioseliani also played for Georgia in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship, scoring 1½/7 on board 2.Since 2003, Ioseliani has taken a break from chess playing, and is an entrepreneur in Prague.