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The Gaprindashvili Cup.

The Gaprindashvili Cup is awarded to the best performing federation, by adding the results of the open and ladies teams together, at the conclusion of each Olympiad.

Current top 10 and African Federation standings.

Nona Gaprindashvili was born on May 3, 1941, in Zugdide, in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. She became the Women's World Champion in 1962, when she won the title from Elizaveta Bykova by a score of 9-2!. Gaprindashvili went on to dominate the women's international chess scene, and remained Women's World Champion for 16 years! She finally lost the title to another Georgian, Maia Chiburdanidze, in 1978, losing by the score 8-1/2 to 6-1/2 (Chiburdanidze went on to remain Women's World Champion for 13 years). Nevertheless, in that same year, Gaprindashvili became the first woman to be awarded the unqualified Grandmaster title (which you might call a men's Grandmaster title), in addition to the title designated Women's Grandmaster. Gaprindashvili is one of only a few women who could compete realistically in top level tournaments dominated by male grandmasters, winning (amongst others) Hastings in 1963/4 and tying for first place at Lone Pine in 1977.

Interestingly, Maia Chiburdanidze still plays chess at the top level and is the board 1 for the Georgian ladies team at the Dresden Olympiad. After 10 rounds she is the leading board 1 and undefeated with a score of 6.5 out of 8. Her impressive playing card, with a tournament performance near 2700, listed below includes wins over the current Woman's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk from Russia, as well as the runner up Hou Yifan from China.

Chiburdanidze Maia GM 2489 GEO Rp:2697
Rd.	SNo		Name	Rtg	FED	Rp	Pts.	Res.	Bo.
2	33	IM	Peptan Corina-Isabela	2430	ROU	2224	2,0	w 1	1
3	75	IM	Klinova Masha	2327	ISR	2338	4,5	w ½	1
4	16	GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	2483	HUN	2534	7,0	s ½	1
5	5	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2525	RUS	2444	4,0	s 1	1
6	31	IM	Socko Monika	2434	POL	2574	6,0	w ½	1
8	113	IM	Petrenko Svetlana	2285	MDA	2107	2,0	s 1	1
9	10	IM	Muzychuk Anna	2508	SLO	2478	7,0	w 1	1
10	1	WGM	Hou Yifan	2578	CHN	2588	7,0	s 1	1