Repeated winner and medalist of the USSR chess championships, International Grandmaster Maya Chiburdanidze.01.09.1996#2214119
Repeated winner and medalist of the USSR chess championships, International Grandmaster Maya Chiburdanidze.02.10.1996#2214118
Repeated winner and medalist of the USSR chess championships, International Grandmaster Maya Chiburdanidze at the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (September 15 - October 2, 1996).02.10.1996#2214117
Maya Chiburdanidze, international grandmaster, winner and prize winner of many USSR chess championships. 32nd Chess Olympiad (September 15 - October 2, 1996), Yerevan.02.10.1996#2213129
Nino Gurieli, chess champion of the Georgian SSR, and Maya Chiburdanidze, international grandmaster, winner and prize winner of many USSR chess championships. 32nd Chess Olympiad (September 15 - October 2, 1996), Yerevan.02.10.1996#2213128
Maya Chiburdanidze, international grandmaster, winner and prize winner of many USSR chess championships. 32nd Chess Olympiad (September 15 - October 2, 1996), Yerevan.02.10.1996#2213121
6th world chess champion Maya Chiburdanidze (Georgia) analyzes one game of the Karpov-Kasparov match.01.11.1985#969147
Members of the USSR Olympic Chess Championship team, from left: Maya Chiburdanidze, Nana Ioseliani and Nona Gaprindashvili. 1982 World Chess Olympiad in Lucerne, Switzerland.01.11.1982#781758
Maya Chiburdanidze, world chess champion, winner of five World Chess Olympiads (between 1978 and 1986) as a member of the Soviet national team. Repeated winner and medalist of the Soviet chess champions. International Grandmaster since 1977.01.06.1968#776414
Maya Chiburdanidze, three time world chess champion, at an awarding ceremony. Chairman of the organizational committee V.Uskov, left, and Presodent of FIDE Florencio Campomanes, second right.01.10.1984#775446
A Georgian chess player Maya Cheburdanidze , right, and China's Rui Cheng during women's tournament of world chess championship.06.12.2001#774962
World Chess Champion Maya Chiburdanidze (right) giving a simultaneous exhibition in Vietnam. 1983.01.09.1983#774199
9th World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosyan (1929-1984) and Georgian chess player and 6th Women's World Chess Champion Maya Chiburdanidze. Photo courtesy Nino Melia's collection.30.06.1980#707725
President of the Soviet Chess Federation, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Vitaly Sevastyanov, left, World chess champions Anatoly Karpov and Maya Chiburdanidze welcome János Kádár, First Secretary of Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (second from right) during the 26th CPSU Congress.23.02.1981#505715
The world chess champion Maia Chiburdanidze giving a simultaneous exhibition at the Palace of Pioneers in Tbilisi.28.09.1985#464810
Four-time world chess champion (1978-1991) Maya Chiburdanidze (b. 1961) of Georgia. Winner of five world Olympic games (1978-1986) on the USSR team. Many-time USSR champion. International Grand Master since 1977. 25.05.1990#149006
Georgia's Maya Chiburdanidze becomes women's world chess champion for a third time after winning a match with Irina Levitina of Leningrad, 1984.08.09.1984#149000
World chess champion Grand Master Maya Chiburdanidze at the World Chess Olympiad in Lucerne. 10.11.1982#92005
Chess player Maya Chiburdanidze (left) in training with her coach Mikhail Shishov (left). 01.12.1975#44646
Master of Sports Chess Maya Chiburdanidze (left) giving a simultaneous exhibition against Georgian television staff. 01.09.1974#43806
Maia Chiburdanidze (left) and Irina Levitina (right) during the match for the world chess champion title.06.09.1984#42469
Maya Chiburdanidze, International Grandmaster, world chess champion in 1978, contemplating her next move at the chess tournament of the 7th Summer Spartakiad of the USSR Peoples. 01.07.1979#35372
Winner of the chess Oscar Prize (1984-7), six times world chess champion (1978-1991), international grandmaster Maya Chiburdanidze (Georgia).14.12.2001#8817