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2734 -lrb- september 2012 -rrb- gali , georgia -lrb- rankings -rrb- no. 38 in the january 2012 fide world grandmaster -lrb- 2001 -rrb- 13601520 26 november 1983 baadur jobava baadur jobava.jpg baadur jobava
 baadur jobava
baadur jobava

baadur jobava -lrb- ; born november 26 , 1983 -rrb- is a georgian chess grandmaster .
his first major achievement on the international scene was winning the dubai open 2003 with 7/9 .
he took the gold medal at the 2004 36th chess olympiad , scoring 8 1/2 / 10 .
he has taken part in the olympiads 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 and 2010 .
in the 2010 olympiad , he defeated the world 's number one player magnus carlsen in the georgia-norway match .
he took part in the fide world chess championship 2004 , but was knocked out in the first round by ruben felgaer .
he won the georgian chess championship in 2003 and 2007 .
he won the second samba cup in skanderborg , denmark in 2005 .
2006 was a good year for jobava , winning the railyaway hotel cup and the prestigious aeroflot open , the strongest open tournament in the world .
in 2008 he tied for 1st -- 8th with nigel short , vadim milov , aleksej aleksandrov , tamaz gelashvili , alexander lastin , gadir guseinov and farid abbasov in the president 's cup in baku .
in august 2011 he tied for 1st -- 2nd with hrant melkumyan in the lake sevan tournament in martuni and won the event on tie-break .
in december 2011 he won the 32nd edoardo crespi trophy in milan with 8,5 / 9 , finishing two points ahead of second placed vladimir malaniuk .
in the same month jobava won the european rapid chess championship in warszawa ahead of 746 players .
he became well known for his home preparation by beating grandmaster evgeny bareev in a prepared line that lasted 34 moves until his opponent resigned .
in the 2004 olympiad he won in a similar way against alexander grischuk .
in early-august , 2015 , he won the 19th hz chess tournament in vlissingen , the netherlands .
he finished with 8 points out of a possible 9 -lrb- +7 -0 = 2 -rrb- his younger brother beglar jobava is also a chess player , an international master .
