Murtas Kazhgaleyev ( kk, Мұртас Мұратұлы Қажығалиев, Mūrtas Mūratūly Qajyğaliev; born 17 November 1973) is a
Kazakhstan
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i
chess
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player who received the
FIDE title of
Grandmaster (GM) in 1998.
In 2004, he tied for first with
Slim Belkhodja in the 27th Syre Memorial in
Issy les Moulineaux. Kazhgaleyev competed in the
Chess World Cup 2005: he knocked out
Evgeny Alekseev in the first round to reach round two, losing to
Teimour Radjabov
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A former child prodigy, he earned the title of Grandmaster ...
and thus exiting the competition.
He won the
men's individual rapid tournament at the
15th Asian Games
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in
Doha
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.
In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with
Dmitry Svetushkin,
Vladimir Malakhov,
Evgeny Vorobiov
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Career
In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with Dmitry Svetushkin, Vladimir Malakhov, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Pavel Smirnov, Vla ...
,
Pavel Smirnov
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Chess career
In 2001 he was a member of the Russian junior team in the first China vs Russia match that took place in Shan ...
,
Vladimir Dobrov and
Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament. At the
2007 Asian Indoor Games
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, which took place in
Macau
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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
Paris City Chess Championship for the second time, having won it also in 2006.
In January 2011 Kazhgaleyev took part in the Group C of the
Tata Steel Chess Tournament in
Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, where he finished seventh scoring 7/13 points. In April 2011 he tied for 2nd–5th with
Parimarjan Negi
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,
Csaba Balogh and
Jon Ludvig Hammer in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship. Later that year Kazhgaleyev competed in the
Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in round one by
Dmitry Andreikin
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. He shared first place with
Vasily Papin
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Chess career
In his younger years, Papin competed in numerous national and international ...
and Rustam Khusnutdinov in the 2014
Australasian Masters tournament.
In January 2015 he finished second to
Ni Hua in the
Australian Open
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. In May of the same year Kazhgaleyev won the
Kazakhstani Chess Championship.
Kazhgaleyev played for Kazakhstan in the
Chess Olympiad
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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), 0-1Joel Lautier vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Grand Prix d'Echecs 2004, King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E81), 0-1Teimour Radjabov vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, FIDE World Cup 2005, Spanish Game: Exchange (C69), 0-1Murtas Kazhgaleyev vs Pawel Jaracz, Ordix Open 2008, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (E32), 1-0
References
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Chessmetrics
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
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