Saidali Iuldachev ( uz, Saidali Yo‘ldoshev, script=Latn; born January 31, 1968) is an

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

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Grandmaster (1997).

Career

He won

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in 1993 and 2003. In 2004 he tied for 2nd–4th with Praveen Thipsay and Chakkravarthy Deepan in the Piloo Mody International Open in

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and tied for first with

Maxim Sorokin Maxim Sorokin (22 January 1968 – 30 June 2007) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (1992). In 1998–2002 he played for Argentina. In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. In 2007 he coached ...

in the Murzagaliev Memorial in

Uralsk Uralsk (russian: Уральск) is the name of several rural localities in Russia: *Uralsk, Republic of Bashkortostan, a '' selo'' in Uralsky Selsoviet of Uchalinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan * Uralsk, Orenburg Oblast, a ''selo'' ...

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. In 2009 he tied for 5th–10th with Chakkravarthy Deepan, Georgy Timoshenko, Sundar Shyam,

Andrei Deviatkin Andrei Deviatkin (russian: Андрей Девяткин; born October 7, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2008). Chess career * 2007 – tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Za ...

and

Shukhrat Safin Shukhrat Safin (3 April 1970 – 20 September 2009) was an Uzbekistani chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Safin shared first place with Mikhail Gurevich (chess player), Mikhail Gurevich an ...

in the Mumbai Mayor Cup. Iuldachev played for Uzbekistan in the

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s of 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2008. He took part in the

FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002. The Ukrainian Grandmaster Rusla ...

, but was knocked out in the first round by

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. In the May 2010

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list, he has an

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of 2511, making him Uzbekistan's number four.

Notable games

Mikhail Krasenkow vs Saidali Iuldachev, 34th Olympiad 2000, Spanish Game: General (C65), 0-1Saidali Iuldachev vs Alexander Hilario Ta Fier, 37th Chess Olympiad 2006, Sicilian Defense: Closed Variation (B23), 1-0

References

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