GMNana Dzagnidze

Nana Dzagnidze was born in Kutaisi in 1987. She won the world under-12 girls' championship in 1999. In 2003, she became world junior girls' champion, finishing two points ahead of the field. She received the woman grandmaster title in 2003, the international master title in 2004 and the unrestricted grandmaster title in 2008. That year, she helped Georgia win Women's Olympiad gold in Dresden.

Dzagnidze won the 2010 Jermuk Women's Grand Prix unbeaten, with seven wins and four draws. At the 2014 Olympiad in Tromsø, she earned individual gold on board one. In 2017, she became European Women's Champion in Riga and Women's World Blitz Champion in Riyadh. Those results brought her the Caissa award for the year's best female player. She shared first at the Lausanne Women's Grand Prix in 2020. Her team record also includes Women's World Team bronze in 2011 and 2017, together with several European Club Cup gold medals.