Nodirbek Abdusattorov (born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek

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grandmaster and the 2021 World Rapid Chess Champion. A

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, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018. Abdusattorov won the

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, becoming the youngest ever Rapid World Champion at 17 years, 3 months, and breaking the youngest World Blitz Champion record of

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who was 18 years old when he won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2009.Leonard Barden.
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'', 30 December 2021. Accessed 28 January 2022. Abdusattorov defeated Carlsen to win the 2021 Championship.

Chess career

Early chess career

In 2012, Abdusattorov won the Under 8 division of the

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s in Maribor, Slovenia. In 2014, at nine years old, he beat two grandmasters, Andrey Zhigalko and Rustam Khusnutdinov, in the 8th

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Memorial tournament, held in his home city of

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. On 27 June 2020, Abdusattorov placed 2nd–6th in the 1st Mukhtar Ismagambetov Memorial along with

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, Dmitriy Bocharov, Kazybek Nogerbek, and Davit Maghalashvili, with a score of 8.5/11. 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.

2021

In 2021, Abdusattorov won in the first group of the PNWCC Super G60. He qualified for the

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where, ranked 69th, after receiving a

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in the first round, he defeated

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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

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4–2 in the 4th round. In September 2021, Abdusattorov took second place (behind Anish Giri) at the Tolstoy Cup tournament organized by the State Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate "

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" and the Chess Federation of Russia. In December 2021, Abdusattorov won the El Llobregat Open held in Spain with a score of 7.0/9. 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

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and Dmitrij Kollars in blitz tiebreaks for first place. 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

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and

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. With a subsequent win of 1.5/2 over

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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.

2022

In May 2022, he won Sharjah Masters with a 2834

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and in August, he played board 1 for Uzbekistan at the 44th Chess Olympiad in

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, where his team won gold on tiebreaks after winning 8 matches and drawing 3 for a score of 19 (tied with Armenia). He won an individual silver medal for his board 1 performance (+7-1=3) behind

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and had a tournament performance rating of 2803.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abdusattorov, Nodirbek 2004 births Living people Chess grandmasters Uzbekistani chess players World Youth Chess Champions Sportspeople from Tashkent