Farrukh_Amonatov Knowpia

Farrukh Amonatov
Farrukh Amonatov
Country	Tajikistan
Born	13 April 1978 (age 46); Dushanbe, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (2002)
FIDE rating	2598 (April 2024)
Peak rating	2650 (July 2008)
Peak ranking	No. 64 (January 2008)

Farrukh Amonatov (Tajik: Фаррух Амонатов; born 13 April 1978 in Dushanbe)^[1] is a Tajikistani chess grandmaster. Along with Magaram Magomedov, they are the only Grandmasters of Tajikistan. Amonatov is also the winner of many international tournaments and recently won the Mumbai Mayors Cup 2019. Despite living and training in Moscow, he represents Tajikistan in international tournaments. Amonatov is the official coach of the Russian Juniors chess team and conducts chess camps with talented juniors from all over the world.

Career edit

Amonatov was the Asian under-16 champion in 1992.^[2] He won the inaugural Moscow Open in 2005.^[3] Later that year Amonatov competed in the FIDE World Cup, where he knocked out Michał Krasenkow in the first round and then was eliminated in the second by Magnus Carlsen. In 2007 he qualified for the Superfinal of the Russian Chess Championship and finished 10th. In 2008 Amonatov tied for first place with Anton Filippov and Vitaly Tseshkovsky in the 2nd Georgy Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent, winning the tournament on tiebreak.^[4] He took part in the 2009 FIDE World Cup, where he reached the second round, in which he lost to the eventual winner, Boris Gelfand. In 2015 Amonatov tied for 1st–3rd with Rinat Jumabayev and Petr Kostenko at the 4th Central Asia Chess Cup in Almaty, finishing second on tiebreak.^[5] The following year, Amonatov won for the second time the Agzamov Memorial (on tiebreak from Rauf Mamedov),^[6] and also won the Eurasian Blitz Cup of the President of Kazakhstan, held in Almaty, edging out on tiebreak (number of wins) Ian Nepomniachtchi.^[7]

References edit

^ Farrukh Amonatov Chess Interviews. Retrieved 8 December 2015
^ (in Russian) Interview with Farrukh Amonatov Archived 2016-02-03 at the Wayback Machine. Asia-Plus. 2009-05-28. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ Crowther, Mark (7 March 2005). "Moscow Open 2005". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
^ Begmatov, Jamshid (9 April 2012). "VI Georgy Agzamov Memorial – Tashkent Open 2012". ChessBase. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
^ "GM Rinat Jumabayev winner of 4th Central Asia Chess Cup (tie-break)". Chessdom. 29 November 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
^ "Farrukh Amonatov winner of Agzamov Memorial". Chessdom. 28 April 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
^ McGourty, Colin. "Amonatov shocks stars to win $30,000 Eurasian Cup". chess24.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.