Rustam Kasimdzhanov

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{{short description|Uzbekistani chess grandmaster (born 1979)}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Rustam Kasimdzhanov
| image = RustamKasimdzhanov23.jpg
| caption = Kasimdzhanov in 2023
| birth_name = Rustam Qosimjonov
| country = [[Uzbekistan]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|12|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tashkent]], Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
| death_date =
| death_place =
| title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (1997)
| worldchampion = 2004–05 (FIDE)
| peakrating = 2715 (May 2015)
| peakranking = No. 11 (October 2001)
| FideID = 14200244
}}

'''Rustam Kasimdzhanov'''{{efn|{{langx|uz|Rustam Qosimjonov}}; {{langx|ru|Рустам Касымджанов}}}} (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbekistani [[chess]] [[Grandmaster (chess)|grandmaster]] and former [[World Chess Championship|FIDE World Champion (2004-05).]] He was Asian champion in 1998.

In addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhanov was a longtime [[Second (chess)|second]] to [[Viswanathan Anand]], including during the 2008, 2010 and 2012 World Championship matches. He has also trained World Championship candidates [[Sergey Karjakin]] and [[Fabiano Caruana]].

==Early career==

[[File:Kasimdzhanov,Rustam 990417 Porz.jpg|thumb|left|Kasimdzhanov 1999 at Porz]]
His best results include first in the 1998 [[Asian Chess Championship]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic203.html#6|title=The Week in Chess 203|website=theweekinchess.com|access-date=2016-03-31}}</ref> second in the [[World Junior Chess Championship]] in 1999, first at [[Essen, Germany|Essen]] 2001, first at [[Pamplona]] 2002 (winning a blitz playoff against [[Victor Bologan]] after both had finished the main tournament on 3½/6), first with 8/9 at the [[Vlissingen chess tournament|HZ Chess Tournament]] 2003 in [[Vlissingen]], joint first with [[Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu]] with 6/9 at [[Pune]] 2005, a bronze-medal winning performance (score of 9½/12 points) on board one for his country at the [[2000 Chess Olympiad]] and runner-up in the FIDE [[Chess World Cup]] in 2002 (losing to Viswanathan Anand in the final). He has played in the prestigious [[Corus chess tournament|Wijk aan Zee]] tournament twice, but did not perform well either time: in 1999 he finished 11th of 14 with 5/13, in 2002 he finished 13th of 14 with 4½/13.

==FIDE World Chess Champion 2004==

In the [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2004]] in [[Tripoli, Libya]], Kasimdzhanov unexpectedly made his way through to the final, winning mini-matches against [[Alejandro Ramírez (chess player)|Alejandro Ramírez]], [[Ehsan Ghaem Maghami]], [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]], [[Zoltán Almási]], [[Alexander Grischuk]] and [[Veselin Topalov]] to meet [[Michael Adams (chess player)|Michael Adams]] to play for the title and the right to face world number one [[Garry Kasparov]] in a match.

In the final six-game match of the Championship, both players won two games, making a tie-break of rapid games necessary. Kasimdzhanov won the first game with black, after having been in a difficult position. By drawing the second game he became the new FIDE champion.<ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1787 Rustam Kasimdzhanov wins FIDE title] ChessBase News</ref>

==Other world championship results==
[[Image:RustamKasimdzhanov.jpg|left|thumb|170px|GM Kasimdzhanov]]
Kasimdzhanov's 2004 championship victory earned him an invitation to the eight-player [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2005]], where he tied with [[Michael Adams (chess player)|Michael Adams]] for 6th–7th places.

The 2004 championship also earned him one of sixteen places in the [[Candidates Tournament]] for the [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2007]]. His first round opponent was [[Boris Gelfand]]. In their match, all six regular games were [[draw (chess)|drawn]]. Then Gelfand won the rapid tie-break 2½–½, eliminating Kasimdzhanov from the tournament.

==Career since championship==
On June 23, 2005, in the ABC [[Times Square]] studios, the AI [[Accoona]] Toolbar driven by a [[Fritz (chess)|Fritz]] 9 prototype engine, drew against him.<ref>[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2466 Kasim vs the Accoona Toolbar – draw in New York] ChessBase</ref>

He made his first appearance at [[Linares chess tournament|Linares]] in 2005, finishing tied last with 4/12 points.
In 2006, Kasimdzhanov won the knockout [[Corsica]] Masters tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3479|title=Rustam Kasimdzhanov wins Corsica Masters|date=2006-11-09|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=17 December 2011}}</ref>

Kasimdzhanov won gold in the [[Chess at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's individual rapid|individual men's rapid event]] at the [[2010 Asian Games]]. In the following year he won the inaugural Central Asia Chess Cup in Tashkent.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rustam Kasimdzhanov claims 1st Central Asia Chess Cup|url=http://www.chessdom.com/rustam-kasimdzhanov-claims-1st-central-asia-chess-cup/|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=8 December 2015|date=2011-10-26}}</ref>

In 2015 he won the Highlander Cup, a rapid knockout tournament, at the Global Chess Festival, that took place in [[Budapest]] and was organized by [[Judit Polgár]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/the-global-chess-festival-2015|title=The Global Chess Festival 2015|last=Marin|first=Mihail|author-link=Mihail Marin|date=2015-10-22|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=21 November 2015}}</ref>

He speaks fluent [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[English language|English]] and [[German language|German]].

==Trainer and second==
Kasimdzhanov was a second for former World Champion Viswanathan Anand, having worked with Anand in preparation for and during his successful [[World Chess Championship]] title defences in [[World Chess Championship 2008|October 2008]] against [[Vladimir Kramnik]], [[World Chess Championship 2010|April–May 2010]] against [[Veselin Topalov]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6346 |title=Chess News – Anand in Playchess – the helpers in Sofia |access-date=2010-05-19 |date=2010-05-19 |publisher=Chessbase}}</ref> and in [[World Chess Championship 2012|May 2012]] against [[Boris Gelfand]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://moscow2012.fide.com/en/ |title=WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH |publisher=FIDE |date=2012-05-31 |access-date=2012-06-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928013643/http://moscow2012.fide.com/en |archive-date=2013-09-28 }}</ref>

He coached the German national team which won the [[European Team Chess Championship]] in 2011.<ref>[http://chess-news.ru/en/node/14818 "Coach-Winner" Rustam Kasimdzhanov to Help Karjakin In Khanty-Mansiysk]. Chess-News.ru. 2014-03-04.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=McGourty|first=Colin|title=Naiditsch: "I'm not afraid of anybody"|url=https://chess24.com/en/read/news/naiditsch-i-m-not-afraid-of-anybody|website=chess24|date=2015-08-12}}</ref>

Kasimdzhanov was the trainer of Sergey Karjakin in the Candidates Tournament of 2014,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chess24.com/en/read/news/candidates-rd-14-sergey-snatches-second|title=Candidates, Rd 14: Sergey snatches second|last=McGourty|first=Colin|date=2014-03-30|publisher=chess24|access-date=2015-08-12}}</ref> and of Fabiano Caruana in the [[Candidates Tournament 2016]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Sagar Shah|title=Candidates R10: Caruana wins, joins lead|url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/candidates-r10-caruana-wins-joins-lead|publisher=ChessBase|access-date=31 March 2016|date=2016-03-23}}</ref> He was one of Caruana's seconds during the [[World Chess Championship 2018|2018 World Chess Championship]] match.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/carlsen-vs-caruana-an-interview-mit-rustam-kasimdzhanov-second-of-caruana|title=Kasimdzhanov: "The work of seconds usually remains invisible"|date=2018-12-09|website=Chess News|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref> He currently trains young Indian grandmaster [[Arjun Erigaisi]]. At the [[Tata Steel Chess Tournament]] in 2023, young grandmaster [[Nodirbek Abdusattorov]] revealed that he had begun working with his fellow Uzbek grandmaster Kasimdzhanov over the past year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6z-4Sk26nk|title=4th Victory For Abdusattorov! Post Round 7 Interview|date=2023-01-21|website=Youtube|language=en|access-date=2023-01-21}}</ref>

==Notable games==
*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1311179, Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs Viktor Korchnoi, Julian Borowski-A 4th 2002, French Defense: Classical, Burn Variation (C11), 1–0]
*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1293584, Michael Adams vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov, FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2004, Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov–Rossolimo Attack (B30), 0–1]
*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1292973, Veselin Topalov vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov, FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament 2004, Queen's Indian Defense: Anti-Queen's Indian System (E17), 0–1]
*[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1361600, Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs Viswanathan Anand, FIDE World Championship Tournament 2005, Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation, English Attack Anti-English (B90), 1–0]

==References==
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