Rustem Hazitovich Dautov (, born 28 November 1965 in
Ufa
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) is a German
chess
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player of Tatar origin who holds the
FIDE title
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of
Grandmaster.
In 1983 he won the USSR U18 youth championship and in 1986 the
Belarusian Chess Championship
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. He completed his military service in the 1980s in the sports department of the Soviet army, which was stationed in
East Germany
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. In this period he participated in various GDR tournaments: in 1984, he was second (after
Valery Chekhov) in
Berlin
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. Tournament victories include
Dresden
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in 1986,
Rostock
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,
Halle and Dresden in 1987, and
Minsk
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and Dresden in 1988. In 1989 he was awarded the
FIDE title of
International Master (IM). In 1990, he won in
Münster
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and was awarded the Grandmaster (GM) title. The following year, he won tournaments in
Porz
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Porz borders ...
and
Bad Lauterberg.
In 1992, Dautov settled in
Seeheim-Jugenheim
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Seeheim-Jugenheim consists of seven villages:
*Balkhausen (population 693)
*Jugenheim (population 4,448)
*Malch ...
. Since 1996 he plays for the German national team. Between 1996 and 2004, he took part in five
Chess Olympiads. His biggest success was in 2000 at the
34th Chess Olympiad in
Istanbul
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, where he and his team got the silver medal (Russia scored gold). Dautov also scored two individual bronze medals, one for his
rating performance of 2788 and one for his 8.5/11 score on the third board.
In 1996, Dautov won (jointly with
Artur Yusupov) the international
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, he finished second in the championship of 1999. In the late 1990s he won tournaments in
Bad Homburg (1997),
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** Seefeld Castle
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(1997),
Essen (1999) (shared with
Vadim Zvjaginsev
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,
Emil Sutovsky
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and
Larry Christiansen
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) and
Deizisau
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(until 1992 ''Region Mittlerer Neckar'') and the Stuttgart Metropolitan Region. Deizisau is located between the towns ...
2002 (amongst others shared with
Vladimir Epishin
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He finished third in the 58th USSR Chess Championship in 1991. He won the 1987 St. Petersburg Championship. Other tournament successes include 3rd-4th with Vladi ...
and
Levon Aronian). He participated in the
FIDE World Chess Championship 2002
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and the
FIDE World Chess Championship 2004
The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13, 2004.
It was won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who beat Michael Adams in the final by a score of 4½–3½. He won about US$100,000 and ...
, where he was knocked out in the second and first round respectively.
Dautov took on professional
poker in recent years. He plays regularly in the German
Chess Bundesliga
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Austria also has ...
for ''OSC Baden-Baden'' and the Swiss National League A for chess club ''Lucerne''. He has written numerous articles for
New in Chess and authored a
Chessbase DVD 'Queen's gambit with 5.Bf4'.
Since the season 2016/17, Dautov plays for the team of SF Deizisau in the Second Chess Bundesliga.
References
Short Biography of Rustem DautovDautov's Queen's gambit with 5.Bf4
External links
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1965 births
Living people
Russian chess players
German chess players
German poker players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Soviet emigrants to Germany
Sportspeople from Ufa