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Uzbek chess grandmaster (born 2004)

Nodirbek Abdusattorov (born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and the 2021 World Rapid Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days.[1]FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018.[2]

Abdusattorov won the World Rapid Chess Championship 2021, becoming the youngest ever World Rapid Champion at 17 years, 3 months and the youngest ever world chess champion in any time format, breaking the youngest World Blitz Champion record of Magnus Carlsen, who was 18 years old when he won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2009.[3] Abdusattorov defeated Carlsen to win the 2021 Championship.[3] In 2022, Abdusattorov played board 1 for Uzbekistan at the 44th Chess Olympiad where his team won gold and he won an individual silver medal for his board 1 performance.

Chess career[edit]

Early chess career[edit]

In 2012, Abdusattorov won the Under 8 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia. In 2014, at nine years old, he beat two grandmasters, Andrey Zhigalko and Rustam Khusnutdinov, in the 8th Georgy Agzamov Memorial tournament, held in his home city of Tashkent.[4][5] On 27 June 2020, Abdusattorov placed 2nd–6th in the 1st Mukhtar Ismagambetov Memorial along with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Dmitriy Bocharov, Kazybek Nogerbek, and Davit Maghalashvili, with a score of 8.5/11.[6]
In the FIDE rating list of May 2015, he set a new record for the youngest player to enter the top 100 juniors, at eleven years old.[7]

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2021[edit]

In 2021, Abdusattorov won in the first group of the PNWCC Super G60.[8]

He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where, ranked 69th, after receiving a walkover in the first round, he defeated Aravindh Chithambaram 1.5–0.5 in the second round and beat fourth seed Anish Giri 3–1 in tiebreaks of the third round before losing to Vasif Durarbayli 4–2 in the 4th round.[9]

In September 2021, Abdusattorov took second place (behind Anish Giri) at the Tolstoy Cup tournament organized by the State Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate “Yasnaya Polyana” and the Chess Federation of Russia.[10]

In December 2021, Abdusattorov won the El Llobregat Open held in Spain with a score of 7.0/9.[11]

He followed that up with another open tournament victory in Spain, winning the Sitges Open, held from 13 to 23 December, with a score of 8.0/10 and edging out Ivan Cheparinov and Dmitrij Kollars in blitz tiebreaks for first place.[12]

In December 2021, Abdusattorov took part in the 2021 FIDE World Rapid Championship, achieving a preliminary score of 9.5/13 in a four-way tie for first place, while defeating among others the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana.[13] With a subsequent win of 1.5/2 over Ian Nepomniachtchi in the tie-breaks, Abdusattorov won the Rapid Championship and became the youngest Rapid World Champion in history and the youngest World Champion overall in any of the three recognized time control formats.[3][14][15][16][17]

2022[edit]

In May 2022, he won Sharjah Masters [18] with a 2834 performance rating and in August, he played board 1 for Uzbekistan at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai, where his team won gold on tiebreaks after winning 8 matches and drawing 3 for a score of 19 (tied with Armenia). [19] He won an individual silver medal for his board 1 performance (+7-1=3)[a] behind Gukesh D and had a tournament performance rating of 2803. [20]

2023[edit]

In January 2023, Abdusattorov participated in the Tata Steel tournament, in which he tied for second with Magnus Carlsen.[21] Going into the last round he topped the table, but was overtaken by Anish Giri.[22]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedel, Frederic (29 October 2017). “Abdusattorov second youngest GM ever”. Chess News. ChessBase. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  2. ^ “List of titles approved by the 2018 1st quarter PB in Minsk, Belarus” Archived 14 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine. FIDE. 9 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Leonard Barden. “Chess: 17-year-old shocks Carlsen and becomes youngest world rapid winner Archived 28 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine”. The Guardian, 30 December 2021. Accessed 28 January 2022.
  4. ^ Martínez, David (22 May 2014). “9-year-old prodigy beats two grandmasters”. chess24. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  5. ^ Chandra, Akshat (2 July 2014). “Nine-year-old rips through GMs!”. ChessBase. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  6. ^ “The Week in Chess 1338”. theweekinchess.com. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  7. ^ Top Juniors list statistics Archived 7 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine. FIDE.
  8. ^ “this week in chess”. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021.
  9. ^ “Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021”. worldcup-results.fide.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  10. ^ “Anish Giri wins Tolstoy Cup”. FIDE. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  11. ^ “Nodirbek Abdusattorov wins El Llobregat Open in Barcelona”. ChessBase. 10 December 2021. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  12. ^ “Sitges: Abdusattorov clinches first place in thrilling playoff”. ChessBase. 25 December 2021. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
  13. ^ Abdusattorov–Carlsen Archived 28 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine, FIDE World Rapid Championship, Round 10, 28 December 2021, chess24.com
  14. ^ “Nodirbek Abdusattorov is Rapid World Chess Champion”. worldchess.com. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  15. ^ “17-year-old Abdusattorov dethrons Carlsen as world rapid rapid champion”. CVBJ. 28 December 2021. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  16. ^ Holan, George. “Chess: The amazing and icy 17-year-old Abdusattorov wins the gold in the fast games world after knocking down Carlsen | Chess News – Plainsmen Post”. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  17. ^ Levin (AnthonyLevin), Anthony. “World Rapid Chess Championship Day 3: Abdusattorov and Kosteniuk Crowned World Rapid Champions”. Chess.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  18. ^ “Sharjah Mastes”. Chess-results.com.
  19. ^ “44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai – Open section results”. Chess-results.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  20. ^ “Uzbekistan round results at the 44th Chess Olympiad”. Chess-results.com. 14 August 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
  21. ^ “TataSteel final results”. TataSteel Chess. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  22. ^ “Nederlandse schaker Giri wint Tata Steel-toernooi, mede dankzij Van Foreest”. Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (in Dutch). 29 January 2023.

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