Nona Gaprindashvili Became World Chess Champion Again

According to the chess federation, Nona Gaprindashvili played brilliantly among women chess players over 65, gained 8.5 points and became world champion.

The titular Georgian chess player won the World Championship among the veterans for the seventh time.

The World Veteran Chess Championship, hosted in the Romanian capital Bucharest. 

Gaprindashvili was born in 1941 in Soviet Georgia, Zugdidi. Grandmaster Gaprindashvili won 11 chess Olympiad tournaments and five world championships in 1962, 1965, 1969, 1972

The 78-year-old woman chessplayer from Georgia remains actively in shape – her success at the World Senior Chess Championship that took place in Bucharest stands as proof of it.