Career
She now lives in Westchester County in New York state. In 1990, she was the Soviet Representative in the World Youth Chess tournament for Peace in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Goletiani qualified to the Women"s World Chess Championship, scheduled to begin on November 25, 2000 in New Delhi, India, by tying for first with Grandmaster Nino Khurtsidze in a zonal tournament in Georgia in May 2000.
However, there were lengthy times when she was not able to compete in chess events because of the Georgian civil war at the beginning of the Nineties and the 1992-1993 war in Abkhazia, where she was born.
After her arrival in the United States in May, 2000, she was prohibited from playing in the United States. Championship for four years in a controversial ruling by Tom Brownscombe who was the USCF scholastic coordinator at the time. When Beatriz Marinello was elected USCF President in August 2003, her very first act as president was to fire Brownscombe.