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GM Mikheil Kekelidze

Full name

Mikheil Kekelidze

Born

1/1/1974 (age 50)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Georgia

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

King's Indian Defense: Kramer Variation (7 games)

Grünfeld Defense: Stockholm Variation (6 games)

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Knight Variation (6 games)

Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov Variation, Petrosian Variation (5 games)

Benoni Defense: Modern, Classical, New York Variation (5 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Knight Variation (20 games)

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Modern Variation (19 games)

Sicilian Defense: Kan, Modern, Polugaevsky Variation (17 games)

Alapin Sicilian Defense (10 games)

English Opening: Fianchetto, Ultra-Symmetrical Line (8 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Mikheil Kekelidze (2364) Vlad Protassov (2077)	1-0	43	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2318) Darius Viskelis (1991)	1-0	60	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2348) Jeroen van den Bersselaar (2082)	1-0	37	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2348) Povilas Lasinskas (2112)	1-0	19	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2348) Stephen Dishman (2358)	1-0	46	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2353) Jose Rosario (2002)	1-0	28	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2353) Rudolf Meessen (2234)	1-0	24	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2353) Maksim Novik (2411)	1-0	24	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2364) Daniil Shnurov (2005)	0-1	53	2024
Mikheil Kekelidze (2318) Erik Blomqvist (2479)	0-1	64	2024

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