The Most Famous
CHESS PLAYERS from Uzbekistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Uzbekistani Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 2 of which were born in Uzbekistan. This makes Uzbekistan the birth place of the 38th most number of Chess Players behind Syria, and Kazakhstan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uzbekistani Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Uzbekistani Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Rustam Kasimdzhanov (b. 1979)
With an HPI of 44.18, Rustam Kasimdzhanov is the most famous Uzbekistani Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 46 different languages on wikipedia.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998. In addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhanov was a longtime second to Viswanathan Anand, including during the 2008, 2010 and 2012 World Championship matches. He has also trained with World Championship candidates Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana.
2. Nodirbek Abdusattorov (b. 2004)
With an HPI of 28.84, Nodirbek Abdusattorov is the 2nd most famous Uzbekistani Chess Player. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbek: Nodirbek Fazliddin oʻgʻli Abdusattorov; born 18 September 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he qualified for the grandmaster title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days. FIDE awarded him the title in April 2018. He is Uzbekistan's highest-rated grandmaster and currently one of the best chess players in the world. Abdusattorov won the World Rapid Chess Championship 2021, becoming the youngest ever World Rapid Champion at 17 years and 3 months, and the youngest ever open world chess champion in any time format, breaking the record held by Magnus Carlsen, who was 18 years old when he won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2009. Abdusattorov defeated Ian Nepomniachtchi in a tiebreaker match to win the 2021 Championship. In 2022, Abdusattorov played board 1 for Uzbekistan at the 44th Chess Olympiad, where his team won gold and he won an individual silver medal for his board 1 performance. Abdusattorov also holds the record for the youngest player to attain a rating of over 2400. In April 2024, he ranked No. 4 in the world.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Uzbekistani chess players born between 1979 and 2004. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Uzbekistani chess players include Rustam Kasimdzhanov, and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
