Murtas Kazhgaleyev ( kk, Мұртас Мұратұлы Қажығалиев, Mūrtas Mūratūly Qajyğaliev; born 17 November 1973) is a

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player who received the

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of Grandmaster (GM) in 1998. In 2004, he tied for first with

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in the 27th Syre Memorial in

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. Kazhgaleyev competed in the Chess World Cup 2005: he knocked out Evgeny Alekseev in the first round to reach round two, losing to

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and thus exiting the competition. He won the men's individual rapid tournament at the 15th Asian Games in

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. In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with

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, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Pavel Smirnov,

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and

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in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament. At the

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, which took place in

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, Kazhgaleyev won two silver medals, in the men's individual classical tournament and in the men's individual rapid event. In September 2009 he finished first in the

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for the second time, having won it also in 2006. In January 2011 Kazhgaleyev took part in the Group C of the

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, the Netherlands, where he finished seventh scoring 7/13 points. In April 2011 he tied for 2nd–5th with

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, Csaba Balogh and

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in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship. Later that year Kazhgaleyev competed in the

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, where he was eliminated in round one by

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. He shared first place with Vasily Papin and Rustam Khusnutdinov in the 2014 Australasian Masters tournament. In January 2015 he finished second to

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in the Australian Open. In May of the same year Kazhgaleyev won the

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. Kazhgaleyev played for Kazakhstan in the

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s of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2010 and 2012.

Notable games

Bin-Sattar Reefat vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Asian Championships 2001, Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65), 0-1

Joel Lautier vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Grand Prix d'Echecs 2004, King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E81), 0-1

Teimour Radjabov vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, FIDE World Cup 2005, Spanish Game: Exchange (C69), 0-1

Murtas Kazhgaleyev vs Pawel Jaracz, Ordix Open 2008, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (E32), 1-0

References

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1973 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Kazakhstani chess players Asian Games medalists in chess Chess players at the 2006 Asian Games Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games People from Oral, Kazakhstan Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games {{Kazakhstan-chess-bio-stub