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Levan Bregadze
Title:
International Master
Rating:
2458
Federation:
Baltimore, MD
Age:
22
Bio:
International Master Levan Bregadze learned the game at the age of five, and when his father noticed his son’s talent early, he began bringing him to chess clubs.
“As a child in Tbilisi in the country of Georgia, I watched my father play chess with friends and I taught myself to play,” says Levan Bregadze.
Bregadze came to the U.S. to attend college and is now a Fulbright scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where he studies financial economics with a focus on accounting. He would like to become a CPA and will enroll in graduate school in order to accumulate the 150 credit hours he needs as part of the CPA requirements.
A member of the UMBC Chess Team, he participates in its Lecture Series which began in November. This series provides lectures about game theories and analyzes top-level games, as well as offers lessons to players with a USCF rating under 2300. Bregadze has taught chess since 2009 when he earned his current title of International Master, and he also coaches at CheckMates USA Chess Academy. In St. Louis, he seeks his first Grandmaster norm.
