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Nodirbek Yakubboev
Uzbekistani chess grandmaster (born 2002) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nodirbek Yakubboev[a] (born 23 January 2002) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster.
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Yakubboev was born in Tashkent on 23 January 2002.[1] He has won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship three times; in 2016,[2] 2018 and 2020.[3] He came second in the Zone 3.4 Zonal Open Championship in 2021, qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2021.[4][5]
In 2022, he won the gold medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai with the Uzbekistan team, playing in 2nd board, where he won the individual bronze medal, scoring eight points out of eleven and having a performance rating of 2,759.[6]
In 2023 he won the Qatar Masters tournament in a tie-break playoff against fellow Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattorov.[7]
In June 2024, Yakubboev participated in the UzChess Cup Masters, finishing first ahead of Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tiebreaks. He scored 5½/9 (+2-0=7), winning the tournament as the bottom-seeded player.[8]
During the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025, Yakubboev refused to shake hands with four female opponents for "religious reasons".[9] He later apologized to Vaishali Rameshbabu and explained how he respects her as a player, and both the players ended the controversy on respectable terms.[10] Yakubboev lost his game against Vaishali.
At the 2025 World Cup, Yakubboev defeated players including Pranav V, Gabriel Sargissian, and Alexander Donchenko to advance to the semifinals, where he was defeated by fellow countryman Javokhir Sindarov. He thus advanced to the third place playoff, where he is set to face Andrey Esipenko. [11]
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He has an older sister, Nilufar Yakubbaeva, who has won the Women's section of the Uzbekistani Chess Championship multiple times.[3]
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