The 79th Georgian Women’s Chess Championship takes place from 6-15 June in the Georgian Chess Palace in Tbilisi.
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The event will be played as a 10-players round-robin tournament with time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes till the end of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from the move one.
A strong line-up is led by IM Lela Javakhishvili, GM Nino Batsiashvili and IM Meri Arabidze (scroll down for the starting rank list of players). The drawing of lots took place yesterday determining the pairings of each round.
Starting rank list of players – 79th Georgian Women’s Chess Championship 2022:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | IM | Javakhishvili Lela | GEO | 2477 |
| 7 | GM | Batsiashvili Nino | GEO | 2453 |
| 6 | IM | Arabidze Meri | GEO | 2448 |
| 4 | IM | Melia Salome | GEO | 2368 |
| 8 | IM | Gvetadze Sofio | GEO | 2306 |
| 2 | IM | Purtseladze Maka | GEO | 2287 |
| 5 | WIM | Vakhania Alexandra | GEO | 2135 |
| 10 | Esadze Tamari | GEO | 1982 | |
| 9 | WFM | Tsotsonava Elene | GEO | 1915 |
| 3 | WFM | Lomaia Diana | GEO | 1846 |
