IMGiorgi Sibashvili

Giorgi Sibashvili was born in Tbilisi in 1998 and trained with Giorgi Khomeriki and Khvicha Supatashvili. He won European youth bronze in the under-fourteen section in 2012 and silver in the under-sixteen section in 2014. FIDE awarded him the international master title in 2017. The following year he won Georgia's under-twenty championship and scored an unbeaten 8/9 for Georgia's third team at the Batumi Olympiad. His open tournament victories included Poti, where he earned a grandmaster norm, and Keşan in Turkey. He studied at the Georgian State Sports University and later worked in chess teaching. He founded the Modern Chess Academy and the Georgian-language instruction platform Chadraki.ge. Sibashvili married French Woman International Master Cécile Haussernot in 2019; they moved from Tbilisi to Abu Dhabi in 2022.