Tornike Sanikidze

GM Tornike is a Grandmaster from Georgia with a peak rating of 2616. He stood 2nd in the European Youth championships under-14 in the year 2003. In 2009 he was the Georgian champion. He  also won the Batumi Chess Festival in 2017.

Tornike has been coaching for a decade and a half. He was the  coach of the gold-winning Georgian Women's National Olympiad team in 2008.

Tornike represented Georgia in Chess Olympiad multiple times and has coached many famous international chess players.