Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Nodirbek Abdusattorov
Country Uzbekistan
Born (2004-09-18) September 18, 2004
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating 2558 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2540 (April 2018)

Nodirbek Abdusattorov (born September 18, 2004) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he is the third-youngest grandmaster in history, having earned the title at the age of 13 years, 1 month, and 11 days.[1]

In 2012 he won the Under-8 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia. In 2014, at nine years old, he beat two grandmasters, Andrey Zhigalko and Rustam Khusnutdinov, in the 8th Georgy Agzamov Memorial tournament, held in his home city of Tashkent. [2][3] In the FIDE rating list of April 2015, he set a new record for the youngest player to enter the top 100 juniors, at eleven years old.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Friedel, Frederic (2017-10-29). "Abdusattorov second youngest GM ever". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  2. ↑ Martínez, David (2014-05-22). "9-year-old prodigy beats two grandmasters". chess24. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Chandra, Akshat (2014-07-02). "Nine-year-old rips through GMs!". ChessBase. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Top Juniors list statistics. FIDE.


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