Tie-breaks turned out to be successful for almost all Georgian chess players at Women’s World Championship!

In the first round Salome Melia beat Inne Kharisma Sukander of Indonesia 1.5:0.5.

Meri Arabidze defeated Elisabeth Paehtz of Germany. Javakhishvili won over Sophiko Guramishvili.

4 of 6 Georgians will continue participating in the tournament.

Here are the opponents of our ladies:

Bela Khotenashvili (2513) – Qian Huang (China, 2473)

Salome Melia (2459) – Zhao Xue (China, 2527)

Meri Arabidze (2374) – Marrero Lopez (Cuba, 2322)

Tan Zhongyi (China, 2487) – Lela Javakhishvili (2481)

The first games of the second round will start at 16:00 on 20 March.