What is Nona Gaprindashvili?
{{Infobox chess player |playername = Nona Gaprindashvili |image = Nona Gaprindaschwili 1982.jpg |image_size= 250px |caption= Nona in 1982 |birthname = Nona Gaprindashvili<br/>ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი |country = [[USSR]]; [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] |datebirth = {{birth date and age|1941|5|3|df=y}} |placebirth = Zugdidi, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] |datedeath = |placedeath = |title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] |worldchampion = |womensworldchampion = 1962–1978 |rating = 2360 (January 2010) |peakrating = }}[[File:UdSSR 24 Dubai 1986.jpg|thumb|right|280px|The [[Soviet]] women's team at the 1986 Chess Olympiad in [[Dubai]]. L>R: Akhmilovskaya, Gaprindaschwili and Alexandria.]] '''Nona Gaprindashvili''' ({{lang-ka|ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი}}; born 3 May 1941) is a [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] [[chess]] player. She was the strongest female player of the 1960s and 70s, and became the sixth [[List of World Chess Champions#Women's World Champions|Women's World Chess Champion]] (1962–1978). She was the first woman to achieve the [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] title. In 1961, aged 20, Gaprindashvili won the fourth women's Candidates Tournament, setting up a title match against [[Russia]]n world champion Elisabeth Bykova. She won the match easily, with a final score of 9−2 (+7−0=4), and went on to defend her title successfully four times. She finally lost her crown in 1978 to another Georgian, [[Maia Chiburdanidze]], by a score of 6½–8½ (+2−4=9). Gaprindashvili played for Soviet Union in the women's chess Olympiads of 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1990, and for Georgia in 1992.<ref>[http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/pbjz9lbk.html OlimpBase: Women's Chess Olympiads, Nona Gaprindashvili]</ref> She won as many as 25 medals, among which 11 team gold medals and 9 individual gold medals <ref>Only her compatriot Maia Chiburdanidze won more: 28 medals in 15 olympiads (15 individual and 13 team medals, of which 15 were gold).</ref> At the Dubai Olympiad 1986 she won all the ten games she played.