- Bukhuti Gurgenidze
Bukhuti (Buchuti) Ivanovich Gurgenidze (
November 13 ,1933 -May 24 ,2008 ) was a Georgian chess Grandmaster, born inSurami .citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=155]He was a multiple Georgian Champion, and played in eight
USSR Chess Championship s. He shared first place withMikhail Tal atTbilisi in 1969–70 and placed first atOlomouc in 1976. Gurgenidze was a trainer to several women grandmasters in the Soviet Union. He was ageologist by profession. [ [http://us.share.geocities.com/wallw_99/who.htm Aaron, Manuel (1935- ) ] ]His name is attached to the Gurgenidze Variation in the
Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4.0-0 Bg7 5.Re1 e5 6.b4). [cite book | author=Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy| title=Szachy od A do Z | publisher=Wydawnictwo "Sport i Turystyka" Warszawa | year=1986, 1987 | id=ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-x (2. N-Z)]Gurgenidze was awarded the
International Master (IM) title in 1966 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1970.References
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*cite web
title=Death of a chess original – Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 1933–2008
url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4653
publisher=Chessbase.com
date=26 May 2008
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