Sopio Gvetadze

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Sopio Gvetadze
Country Georgia
Born (1983-11-15) November 15, 1983 (age 40)
Tbilisi, Georgia
Title International Master (2007)
Peak rating 2416 (January 2007)

Sopio Gvetadze (born November 15, 1983, in Tbilisi) is a Georgian chess player who holds the title of an international master and a woman grandmaster.

She qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2017, where she lost to Nino Batsiashvili.

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