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
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Georgian women ruled chess in the Soviet era - now a new generation chases the same Queen s Gambit glory
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Dec. 13, 2020
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1of11The Tbilisi Chess Palace and the Alpine Club on Dec. 8.Photo for The Washington Post by Justyna Mielnikiewicz/MAPSShow MoreShow Less
2of11Kato Pipia, 17, on Dec. 10 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She won first place at the 2020 World Schools Championship for online chess, held with students from 37 countries.Photo for The Washington Post by Justyna Mielnikiewicz/MAPSShow MoreShow Less
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4of11The entrance to the Tbilisi Chess Palace and the Alpine Club. It is one of the examples of late Soviet Modernist architecture.Photo for The Washington Post by Justyna Mielnikiewicz/MAPSShow MoreShow Less