Nona Gaprindashvili is a Soviet chess player, born in Zugdidi in 1941.
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Within chess, Nona Gaprindashvili is remembered for a record that stands up against anything her generation produced.
The public record credits Nona Gaprindashvili with 8 recorded honours. Chess is sport as pure calculation, and its champions are studied like composers, move by move, decades after they played.
Achievements
- Presidential Order of Excellence
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Order of Lenin
- Medal "For Distinguished Labour"
- Order of Queen Tamara
- Order of Honour
- Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali
- Silver Olympic Order
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