Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Rustam Kasimjanov ( in addition also Uzbek Rustam Qosimjonov; born December 5, 1979 in Tashkent) is a living in Germany Uzbek chess grandmaster.
Kasimjanov who lives in Germany for several years, even uses the English spelling of his name Kasimdzhanov, resulting from the English transliteration of the Russian previously written name Касымджанов.
He learned to play chess at age five. In 1994 he was third in the World Championships in Szeged the U16 age group, as well as a year later in Guarapuava ( Brazil). In 1997 he received the title of FIDE chess grandmaster. In 1998 he became master of Asia, 1999, he took second place at the World Youth Chess Championship in Yerevan. In the 1998/99 season he played for the SG Solingen and achieved an excellent result with 12 points from 13 games at the Chess League.
Other tournament victories he won in Essen 2001 and Pamplona, 2002. During the same year, he scored an excellent second place in the tournament from Hyderabad behind the Indian Viswanathan Anand. He represented the team in Asia at quick chess compared against a European selection, led by Garry Kasparov, in Batumi 2002.
Very surprisingly, his victory came in the World Championship of FIDE in 2004 in Tripoli, where he defeated in the final Michael Adams. Kasimjanov occupied at this time with an Elo rating of 2640 54th place in the world rankings and not one of the narrower tournament favorites.
After winning the FIDE World Cup 2004 he won the strong tournament in Pune, India. He received an invitation to Linares 2005, which is comparable in importance with the Wimbledon tennis tournament, where he scored 4 points over 10 games, and the 6th - 7th Shared space.
A planned by the FIDE World Cup competition Kasimjanovs against the world number one Garry Kasparov in 2005 did not materialize. The winner of this match should have played against Vladimir Kramnik a reunion event.
Kasimjanov helped in the 2004/2005 season his German chess club Godesberger SK with 4.5 / 7 on top board in the ascent to the 1st Bundesliga. After the descent of the Godesberg in 2008, he moved to SV Mülheim- Nord. Since the 2011/2012 season playing for the OSG Baden -Baden.
In August 2006, he won the ORDIX Open in Mainz, in November the rapid chess tournament Corsica Masters in Bastia, where he prevailed in the final against Viswanathan Anand.
In November 2011 Kasimjanov was coach of the tournament winning German team at the European Championships. His training was thereby named by players as one of the main factors for the victory, allowing his opening preparation, among others, the final round victory against Team World Champion Armenia with a victory by Georg Meier against Sergei Movsesjan.
ChessBase has he released so far nine instructional videos in English: 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 Counter Gambit, 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 a son.