Maia Chiburdanidze

Maia Chiburdanidze მაია ჩიბურდანიძე
Maia Chiburdanidze, Thessaloniki 1984
Country	Soviet Union → Georgia
Born	(1961-01-17) 17 January 1961 (age 63) Kutaisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1984)
Women's World Champion	1978–1991
FIDE rating	2500 (May 2024) [inactive]
Peak rating	2560 (January 1988)

Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgian: მაია ჩიბურდანიძე; born 17 January 1961) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. She is the sixth Women's World Chess Champion, a title she held from 1978 to 1991, and was the youngest one until 2010, when this record was broken by Hou Yifan. Chiburdanidze is the second woman to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE, which took place in 1984. She has played on nine gold-medal-winning teams in the Women's Chess Olympiad.^[1]