Nodirbek Yakubboev

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Nodirbek Yakubboev
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Yakubboev in 2024
Personal information
Born (2002-01-23) 23 January 2002 (age 23)
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Chess career
CountryUzbekistan
Title Grandmaster (2019)
FIDE   rating 2689 (November 2025)
Peak rating 2689 (October 2025)
Ranking No. 37 (November 2025)
Peak rankingNo. 37 (November 2025)

Nodirbek Yakubboev [a] (born 23 January 2002) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster.

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Career

Yakubboev was born in Tashkent on 23 January 2002. [1] He has won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship three times; in 2016, [2] 2018 and 2020. [3] He came second in the Zone 3.4 Zonal Open Championship in 2021, qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2021. [4] [5]

In 2022, he won the gold medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai with the Uzbekistan team, playing in 2nd board, where he won the individual bronze medal, scoring eight points out of eleven and having a performance rating of 2,759. [6]

In 2023 he won the Qatar Masters tournament in a tie-break playoff against fellow Uzbek Nodirbek Abdusattorov. [7]

In June 2024, Yakubboev participated in the UzChess Cup Masters, finishing first ahead of Nodirbek Abdusattorov on tiebreaks. He scored 5½/9 (+2-0=7), winning the tournament as the bottom-seeded player. [8]

During the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 Yakubboev refused to shake hands with four female opponents "for religious reasons". [9] He later apologized to Vaishali Rameshbabu and explained how he respects her as a player, and both the players ended the controversy on respectable terms. [10] Yakubboev lost his game against Vaishali.

Family

He has an older sister, Nilufar Yakubbaeva, who has won the Women's section of the Uzbekistani Chess Championship multiple times. [3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Uzbek: Нодирбек Ёқуббоев/Nodirbek Yoqubboyev.

References

  1. ↑ "The Top Chess Players in the World: Nodirbek Yakubboev". Chess.com . Archived from the original on 16 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "The Week in Chess 1115". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Nodirbek and Nilufar Yakubboev are new champions of Uzbekistan". www.fide.com. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  4. ↑ nikita (15 May 2021). "GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov and GM Nodirbek Yakubboev qualify for the World Chess Cup 2021 – Chessdom" . Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Nodirbek Abdusattorov wins Zone 3.4 Open Championship 2021". www.fide.com. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Uzbekistan round results at the 44th Chess Olympiad". Chess-results.com. 14 August 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  7. ↑ "Yakubboev Wins Qatar Masters After Heartbreaking Blunder By Arjun". 20 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  8. ↑ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter (14 June 2024). "Yakubboev Wins UzChess Cup On Tiebreaks Ahead Of Abdusattorov". Chess.com. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  9. ↑ 'Uzbek GM Nodirbek Yakubboev declines hand-shake with Indian GM R Vaishali due to religious reasons'. Times of India, 27 Jan. 2025
  10. ↑ 'Nodirbek Yakubboev apologizes to Vaishali and speaks about why he did not shake hands', ChessBase India, YouTube, 30 Jan. 2025
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