Rustem Dautov
Grand Master (1990 )
Rustem Dautov (Russian Рустем Хазитович Даутов; born November 28, 1965 in Ufa ) is a German grandmaster in chess of Tatar origin.
Rustem Dautov won the 1983 USSR Youth Championship U18. His military service, he graduated in the 1980s in a sports department of the Soviet Army, which was stationed in the GDR. In this phase Dautov participated in various DDR Tournaments: In 1984 he was second (after Valery Chekhov ) in Berlin. It was followed by many more victories, inter alia, 1986 in Dresden, Rostock, Halle ( Saale) and Dresden in 1987, 1988 in Minsk and again in Dresden. 1989 FIDE awarded the title of International Master Dautov. In 1990 he won in Münster and was Grand Master. 1991 was followed by victories in Porz and Bad Lauterberg. He also won the Chess Festival Bad Wörishofen 1991.
In 1992, Dautov moved in Seeheim- Jugenheim. Since 1996 he plays for the German national team. Between 1996 and 2004 he participated for Germany participated in five Chess Olympiads, with him in 2000 in Istanbul achieved his greatest success when he made the team silver and in the individual competition, two bronze medals ( for its rating result of 2788 and for his score of 8.5 11 on the third board ) won.
Dautov won in 1996 in Nussloch (together with Artur Yusupov ) the International German Championship, he was in old churches German Vice Champion in 1999. Other tournament victories recorded Dautov in Bad Homburg in 1997, Seefeld in Tirol 1997, Essen 1999 ( shared with Vadim Zvyagintsev, Emil Sutovsky and Larry Christiansen ) and in Deizisau 2002 (including shared with Vladimir and Levon Aronian Jepischin ).
Dautov resorted, like the German Grand Master Matthias Wahls, in recent years on the professional poker games. He regularly plays in the chess Bundesliga for the German champion OSG Baden -Baden and in the Swiss National League A on top board of the chess club Lucerne.
Last in the top 50 of the FIDE world ranking list, he was in April 2002.