Rustam Kasimjanov

Rustam Kasimjanov, August 19, 2007
Association	Uzbekistan
Born	December 5, 1979 Tashkent
title	International Master (1996) Grand Master (1997)
World Champion	2004-2005 ( FIDE )
Current  Elo rating	2661 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2715 (May 2015)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Rustam Kasimjanov (also Uzbek Rustam Qosimjonov ; born December 5, 1979 in Tashkent ) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster living in Germany .

Life

Kasimjanov, who lives in Germany, uses the English spelling of his name Kasimdzhanov , which comes from the English transcription of the name Касымджанов , which was previously written in Russian .

Kasimjanov (German Chess League 1999)

He learned to play chess when he was five. In 1994 he was third in the U16 World Cup in Szeged , and a year later in Guarapuava ( Brazil ). In 1997 he received the title of Chess Grandmaster from FIDE . In 1998 he became champion of Asia, in 1999 he finished second at the World Youth Championship in Yerevan . In the 1998/99 season he played for SG Solingen and achieved a first-class result with 12 points from 13 games in the German Chess League.

He won further tournaments in Essen 2001 and Pamplona 2002. In the same year he achieved an excellent second place in the tournament in Hyderabad behind the Indian Viswanathan Anand . He represented the Asian team in a rapid comparison against a European selection , led by Garry Kasparov , in Batumi 2002.

His victory at the 2004 FIDE World Championships in Tripoli came as a surprise, defeating Michael Adams in the final . Kasimjanov was at that time with an Elo number of 2640 the 54th place in the world rankings and was not one of the closer tournament favorites.

After his victory at the FIDE World Cup, he won the strong tournament in Pune, India in 2004 . He received an invitation to Linares 2005, which in meaning with the Wimbledon - Tennis Tournament is comparable, where he scored 4 points from 10 matches and the 6th-7th Shared place.

A World Cup competition planned by FIDE for Kasimjanov against world number one Garry Kasparov for 2005 did not materialize. The winner of this match should have played a reunification match against Vladimir Kramnik .

In August 2006 he won the ORDIX Open in Mainz and in November the rapid chess tournament Corsica Masters in Bastia , where he prevailed against Viswanathan Anand in the final.

At the 2008 World Chess Championship , he contributed to Anand's title win as a second . Working for Anand was his first engagement as a trainer . In November 2011 Kasimjanov coached the victorious German team at the European Championships . His training was named by the players as one of the main factors for the victory, so his preparation for the opening enabled, among other things, the final round victory against team world champion Armenia through a victory by Georg Meier against Sergej Movsesjan . When candidates tournament in 2014 , he supported Sergei Karjakin . Since then he has been working for Fabiano Caruana . In media reports he is referred to as the " most valuable second in the world " because of his work for Caruana .

At ChessBase , he has published numerous instructional videos in English, including The path to tactical strength , A World champion's guide to the King's Indian , A World champion's guide to the Petroff , Albin's Countergambit , Anti-Moscow Gambit for Experts , Beating the French (3 DVDs ), Strategy step by step , Endgames for experts and Attacking the King - for experts .

He is married and has two children.

National team

Kasimjanov participated with the Uzbek national team in all ten chess Olympiads from 1996 to 2014 . At the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul he achieved the third-best individual result on the top board. He also represented Uzbekistan at the World Team Championship in 2001, the Asian team championship in 2003 and in the chess competitions of the Asian Games in 2006 and 2010 .

societies

Rustam Kasimjanov (left) and Étienne Bacrot for OSG Baden-Baden at the 2017 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

Kasimjanov played in the German Federal Chess League from 1998 to 2004 for the Solingen chess company . From 2004 to 2008 he played for Godesberger SK, with whom he won the 2nd Bundesliga West in the 2004/05 and 2006/07 seasons and played in the 1st League in the 2005/06 and 2007/08 seasons . In the 2008/09 season he played for SV Mülheim-Nord , since 2011 he has been registered with OSG Baden-Baden , with which he became German team champion in 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018 and 2019 .

In the Dutch master class Kasimjanov played from 1997 to 1999 for the Bussums Schaakgenootschap and from 2006 to 2009 for HMC Calder , in the French team championship from 2003 to 2010 for Vandœuvre-Echecs . The Russian team championship won Kasimjanov 2007 Tomsk-400 , the Bosnian Premijer League in 2003 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo . In Spain he played for the Gros XT from 2005 to 2011 and was the Spanish team champion with this 2011 . The Swiss League won Kasimjanov in the seasons 2015/16 and 2018/19 with the SC Gonzen .

Web links

Commons : Rustam Kasimjanov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Rustam Kasimjanov in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 84.
2. ^ German Bundesliga 1998/99, October 17, 1998 to April 18, 1999 on TeleSchach
3. ↑ Raj Tischbierek : Gold !!! . In: Schach , 12/2011. Pp. 3-24.
4. ↑ Stefan Löffler: The man who thinks ahead for Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana , Berliner Morgenpost, March 22, 2018.
5. ↑ see Suddenly my lightness came back , Interview with Fabiano Caruana by Ulrich Stock, in: Zeit Online March 28, 2018
6. ↑ Stefan Löffler: One million trains in my head , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 22, 2018, p. 28 online
7. ↑ Rustam Kasimjanov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Rustam Kasimjanov's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Rustam Kasimjanov's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Rustam Kasimjanov's results at the Asian Games ( memento from January 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ^ Results of the 2nd Bundesliga West 2004/05 at the German Chess Federation
12. ^ Results of the 2nd Bundesliga West 2006/07 at the German Chess Federation
13. ↑ Rustam Kasimjanov's results in the Premijer Liga on olimpbase.org (English)