Game of Thrones, 17-year-old Kato Pipia sits at her computer, nailing chess victories over her opponents.
Pipia won the World Schools Championship for online chess in October, held with students from 37 countries. Her next big dream? "International chess master," she said.
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Kato Pipia, 17, won first place at the 2020 World Schools Championship for online chess, held with students from 37 countries.
For decades, tiny Georgia has been punching above its weight on the global chess scene. And for Georgian women, the trail was blazed by its own heroine, Nona Gaprindashvili, whose Cold War-era rise to the top of the chess world has its own parallels to the fictional Beth Harmon of