Bela Khotenashvili

Bela Khotenashvili
Bela Khotenashvili at the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Geneva, 2013
Country	Georgia
Born	(1988-06-01) 1 June 1988 (age 28) Telavi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (2013) Woman Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating	2452 (May 2017)
Peak rating	2531 (June 2013)

Bela Khotenashvili (Georgian: ბელა ხოტენაშვილი; born 1 June 1988) is a Georgian chess grandmaster.

She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2012, 2015 and 2017.

Khotenashivili won the World Youth Chess Championship in the girls under-16 category in 2004.

In 2009, she won the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup tournament edging out Lela Javakhishvili on tiebreak score. In 2011, she tied for first place with Nino Batsiashvili in the Group D tournament at the 9th Khazar International Open in Rasht, Iran. Khotenashvili won the Georgian Women's Championship in 2012.

In 2013 and 2014, Khotenashivili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series as host city nominee of Tbilisi. She won the first stage, which took place in Geneva. With this victory she achieved her third and final norm required for the title Grandmaster. In December 2014, she won the best woman's prize in the first edition of the Qatar Masters Open.

In 2016, Khotenashvili participated again in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. In 2017, she won for the second time the Georgian Women's Championship.