Glory to the Queen

In the middle of the Cold War, four female Georgian stars revolutionized the male-dominated chess world and became icons of female emancipation. Nona Gaprindashvili, Maia Chiburdanidze, Nana Alexandria and Nana Iosseliani lit up the eyes of almost all chess aficionados.

As top players, they dominated the chess scene from the early 1960s until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.