Rinat Jumabayev ( kk, Ринат Жұмабаев (''Rinat Jūmabaev''), also spelled ''Rinat Dzhumabaev'';
born 23 July 1989) is a
Kazakhstan
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i
chess
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player. He was awarded the title of
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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in 2009.
Biography
Many times Jumabayev represented Kazakhstan at the Asian Youth Chess Championships and
World Youth Chess Championship
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s in different age categories. He won the
Kazakhstani Chess Championship The Kazakhstani Chess Championship is currently organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. Chess was one of the sports contested at the second Kazakhstan Spartakiad held in Alma-Ata
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( ...
in 2014, and has also won two silver (2010, 2011), and two bronze (2007, 2013) medals.
Jumabayev has played for Kazakhstan in four
Chess Olympiad
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s (2012, 2016, 2018, and 2022)
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/ref> and the Asian Team Chess Championship in 2012.
In 2005, Jumabayev won the international chess tournament in Mezhdurechensk
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;Urban localities
*Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast, a city in Kemerovo Oblast; administratively incorporated as a city under oblast jurisd ...
. He completed the norm
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s required for the Grandmaster title in Zvenigorod
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History
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(2008), Moscow
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(2009) and Gyumri
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(2009). In 2009, he took 3rd place in the Asian zonal tournament for Chess World Cup
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in Tashkent
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. In 2010, Jumabayev shared 1st place in Georgy Agzamov
Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov (September 6, 1954, Tashkent – August 27, 1986, Sevastopol) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, the first from Central Asia. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984.
...
memorial in Tashkent. In 2011, he took 4th place in Asian Chess Championship The Asian Chess Championship is a chess tournament open to all players from Asian chess federations ( FIDE zones from 3.1 to 3.7). It's held with the Swiss system and consists in two divisions, Open and Women's, the latter of which is reserved to f ...
in Mashhad
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. In 2011, Jumabayev lost in the first round to Laurent Fressinet
Laurent Fressinet (; born 30 November 1981 in Dax) is a French chess grandmaster. He is a two-time French Chess Champion.
Career
He won the French Chess Championship in 2010 and 2014. In 2012 he finished second in the European Individual Chess ...
in Chess World Cup
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. In 2012, he shared 3rd place in the Mikhail Chigorin
Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also ''Tchigorin''; russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; – ) was a Russian chess player. He played two World Championship matches against Wilhelm Steinitz, losing both times. The last great ...
memorial in Saint Petersburg
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. In 2013 he shared 1st place in Pavlodar
Pavlodar ( ; ) is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Region. It is located 450 km northeast of the national capital Astana and 405 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the cit ...
. In 2015, Jumabayev won 3rd prize in Riga Technical University Open
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Abstract
The Riga Technical University Open is ...
.
Jumabayev caused a major upset by eliminating Fabiano Caruana
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, then ranked #2 in the world, in the third round of the Chess World Cup 2021
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. Jumabayev was eliminated in the following round by Sam Shankland
Samuel L. Shankland (born October 1, 1991) is an American chess grandmaster. He won the U.S. Chess Championship in 2018.
Shankland was California State Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, and Champion of State Champions in 2009. He won bronz ...
.
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1989 births
Living people
Kazakhstani chess players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Kazakhstan
People from Shymkent
21st-century Kazakhstani people