Temur Kuybokarov | |
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Country |
Uzbekistan (until 2018) Australia (since 2018) |
Born | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | July 22, 2000
Title | Grandmaster (2019) |
FIDE rating | 2562 (July 2024) |
Peak rating | 2600 (December 2023) |
Temur Kuybokarov ( Uzbek: Temur Qo’yboqarov; previously Temur Igonin; born July 22, 2000) is an Uzbekistani-Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. [1] He qualified as a grandmaster at age 18 - the first from Western Australia - and then in 2020 became Australian chess champion. Born in Tashkent, [2] he represented Uzbekistan until transferring to Australia in 2018.
Kuybokarov was taught chess at the age of five by his mother and first coach, Tatyana Igonina.[ citation needed]
At the 2010 Asian Youth Championships, held in Beijing, China, he finished in a tie for first place in the U10 section, taking the bronze medal on tiebreak score. [3] At the age of 11, Kyubokarov (then Igonin) defeated World Champion Viswanathan Anand in a simultaneous exhibition, a feat which received worldwide attention. [4] [5]
In 2016, he moved with his family to Australia, [6] where he lives in Perth, Western Australia. In December of the same year, Kuybokarov won the 8th Penang Open. [7] [8] He transferred his national federation from Uzbekistan to Australia in 2018. [9] He won the 2017 and 2019 Australian Open Championship. [10] [11] [12] Kuybokarov achieved the norms required for the title of grandmaster in the following events: Australian Open 2017; Aeroflot Open 2017; and Gold Coast Open 2018. He also scored the fourth norm at the 2018 Abu Dhabi Masters. [13]
In January 2019 Kuybokarov was named one of Western Australia's 50 Rising Stars. [6] In December Kuybokarov won the 2019 Australasian Masters GM norm tournament in Melbourne with a score of 8½/9 points. [14] The next month Kuybokarov won the Australian Championship in Sydney, [15] the first West Australian player in the 135-year history of the event to win the title. [16] In November 2021 Kuybokarov scored 5.5/11 in the FIDE Grand Swiss in Riga, Latvia and won the Mersin Open in Turkey with 7.5/9. In February 2022 Kuybokarov won the Perth Open for the first time.