How to Pronounce Bukhuti Gurgenidze
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Nov 06, 1933 Surami, Shida Kartli, Georgia Died on 24 May 2008 (aged 74)
Soviet chess player
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About Bukhuti Gurgenidze
- Bukhuti (Buchuti) Ivanovich Gurgenidze (Georgian: ?????? ?????????; November 13, 1933 – May 24, 2008) was a Georgian chess Grandmaster, born in Surami.He was a multiple Georgian Champion, and played in eight USSR Chess Championships.
- He shared first place with Mikhail Tal at Tbilisi in 1969–70 and placed first at Olomouc in 1976.
- Gurgenidze was a trainer to several women grandmasters in the Soviet Union.
- He was a geologist by profession.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). and in the Caro-Kann Gurgenidze Variation: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6; it is because of this variation, originated by Bukhuti Gurgenidze, that 3.Nc3 fell from favour in the 1970s.
- 3.Nd2 has since been regarded as the accurate way to reach the positions arising from ...
- dxe4.
- After 3.Nd2, ...
- g6 is met by 4.c3, when the fianchettoed bishop has little to do. Gurgenidze was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1966 and the Grandmaster (GM) title in 1970.
