GM Merab Gagunashvili

I am GM Merab Gagunashvili from Georgia. I was born in Tbilisi where I made my first chess steps at age 6. I felt in love with game, even that at the beginning I was losing many games. After working with my first coaches, getting knowledge and experience, I started to win on tournaments. I won many international tournaments and played during 12 years for national team of Georgia. I was travelling all around the world, meeting many interesting people and places. Last 10 years I am working as a coach in different countries. Recently I made online chess Academy chessgagunashvili.com, where you can find my CV and more about my work.

Some of my achievements are:

2014 - International Chess Festival, Bloemfontein, South Africa- 1st place
2014 - Bhubaneswar Open Tournament, India - 1st place
2014 - Georgian National Championship, Tbilisi, Georgia- 2nd place
2013 - Bhubaneswar Open Tournament , India – 2nd place
2012 - Georgian National Championship, Tbilisi, Georgia- 2nd place
2010 - Georgian National Championship, Tbilisi, Georgia- 1st place 2010 - Municipality Cup, Tbilisi, Georgia- 1st place
2008 - Dubai Open, United Arab Emirates- 2nd place
2007- Player in Individual World Cup, Khanty- Mansiisk
2006 - Hastings Chess Congress, United Kingdom- 1st place
2004 - Georgian National Championship, Tbilisi, Georgia- 1st place
2004 - Player in Individual World Championship, Tripoli, Libya
2003 - European Team Chess Championship, Plovdiv, Bulgaria- 3rd place Silver medal on 5th board, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2002 - Individual European Championship, Batumi, Georgia- 4th place
2002 - Chess Olympiad, Bled, Slovenia- 4th place
2001- World Junior Championship, Greece- 2nd place

Some of my coaching experience:

2010- present Individual coach for children and adults, e.g. Nikoloz Tsomaia
2002- present Training cooperation with: Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Zurab Sturua, Mikhail
Mchedleshvili, Levan Pentsulaia, Konstantin Shanava
2011 - Iraqi Men Chess National Team : Arab Games, Doha, Qatar- 4th place
2010 - Individual coach of Olympic Champion Maia Lomineishvili
2016 – Coach on chess camps in Turkey for children organized by Turkish Chess Federation
2017 – 2019 – coach of Kuwaiti national team
2018 – Coach and captain of Kuwaiti male chess team Olympiad, Batumi
2020- present - main coach at online chess Academy chessgagunashvili.com