Murtas Kazhgaleyev

{{Infobox chess biography

| name = Murtas Kazhgaleyev

| image = Kasgalejew murtas 20081119 olympiade dresden.jpg

| caption =Kazhgaleyev at the Dresden Olympiad, 2008

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| country = {{KAZ}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|11|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Uralsk,{{cite web |title=Murtas Kazhgaleyev: Chess players should start writing about their lives |date=5 April 2016 |url=http://www.chessdom.com/murtas-kazhgaleyev-chess-players-should-start-writing-about-their-lives/ |publisher=Chessdom |accessdate=5 April 2016}} Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union

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| title = Grandmaster (1998)

| rating =

| peakrating = 2653 (November 2009)

| peakranking = No. 77 (November 2009)

| FideID = 13700316

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Murtas Kazhgaleyev ({{langx|kk|Мұртас Мұратұлы Қажығалиев|Mūrtas Mūratūly Qajyğaliev}}; born 17 November 1973) is a Kazakhstani chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1998.

Chess career

In 2004, he tied for first with Slim Belkhodja in the 27th Syre Memorial in Issy les Moulineaux.{{cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic500.html#11 |title=TWIC 500: 27th Syre Memorial |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=2004-06-07 |publisher=London Chess Center |accessdate=1 January 2010}} Kazhgaleyev competed in the Chess World Cup 2005: he knocked out Evgeny Alekseev in the first round to reach round two, losing to Teimour Radjabov and thus exiting the competition.

He won the men's individual rapid tournament at the 15th Asian Games in Doha.{{cite web |last=Crowther |first=Mark |title=The Week in Chess: 15th Asian Games |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic633.html#8 |publisher=ChessCenter.com |date=2006-12-25 |accessdate=2009-06-23}}

In 2007 he tied for 3rd–9th with Dmitry Svetushkin, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Pavel Smirnov, Vladimir Dobrov and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3655 |title=Illya Nyzhnyk wins Group B in Moscow Open |date=2007-02-07 |publisher=ChessBase |accessdate=18 May 2010}} At the 2007 Asian Indoor Games, which took place in Macau, Kazhgaleyev won two silver medals, in the men's individual classical tournament and in the men's individual rapid event.

In September 2009 he finished first in the Paris City Chess Championship for the second time, having won it also in 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5733 |title=Murtas Kazhgaleyev wins Ile-de-France Paris Championship |last=Mihajlova |first=Diana |date=2009-09-03 |publisher=ChessBase |accessdate=2009-09-03}}

In January 2011 Kazhgaleyev took part in the Group C of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, where he finished seventh scoring 7/13 points.{{cite web |title=Tata Steel: Nakamura wins first Super GM event |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/tata-steel-nakamura-wins-first-super-gm-event |publisher=ChessBase |accessdate=10 April 2016 |date=2011-01-30}} In April 2011 he tied for 2nd–5th with Parimarjan Negi, Csaba Balogh and Jon Ludvig Hammer in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship.{{cite web |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7164 |title=Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta wins Dubai Open |date=2011-04-20 |publisher=ChessBase.com |accessdate=23 April 2011}} Later that year Kazhgaleyev competed in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he was eliminated in round one by Dmitry Andreikin. He shared first place with Vasily Papin and Rustam Khusnutdinov in the 2014 Australasian Masters tournament.{{cite web |title=Australasian Masters tournament 2014 |url=https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/8469-australasian-masters-tournament-2014.html |publisher=FIDE |accessdate=5 April 2016 |date=2014-12-24 |archive-date=2016-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922222313/https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/8469-australasian-masters-tournament-2014.html |url-status=dead}}

In January 2015 he finished second to Ni Hua in the Australian Open.[http://chess-results.com/tnr157180.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=11&wi=821 2015 Australian Open] Chess-Results In May of the same year Kazhgaleyev won the Kazakhstani Chess Championship.{{Cite web |url=http://chess-news.ru/en/node/19053 |title=Murtas Kazhgaleyev Wins Kazakhstan Championship for the First Time |website=Chess-News.ru |date=21 May 2015 |accessdate=17 August 2015}}

Kazhgaleyev played for Kazakhstan in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2008, 2010 and 2012.{{cite web |last=Bartelski |first=Wojciech |title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Kazhgaleyev, Murtas |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/nffhtfdj.html |publisher=OlimpBase |accessdate=2009-06-23}}

Notable games

[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1185555 Bin-Sattar Reefat vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Asian Championships 2001, Spanish Game: Berlin Defense (C65), 0-1]
[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1326725 Joel Lautier vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Grand Prix d'Echecs 2004, King's Indian Defense: Saemisch Variation (E81), 0-1]
[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1378231 Teimour Radjabov vs Murtas Kazhgaleyev, FIDE World Cup 2005, Spanish Game: Exchange (C69), 0-1]
[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1499753 Murtas Kazhgaleyev vs Pawel Jaracz, Ordix Open 2008, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (E32), 1-0]

References

External links

{{FIDE}}
{{365Chess.com player|Murtas_Kazhgaleyev}}
{{Chessgames player|39709}}
[http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/PlayerProfile.asp?Params=199510SSSSS3S063332000000111000000000015710100 Murtas Kazhgaleyev] at Chessmetrics

Category:1973 births

Category:Living people

Category:Chess Grandmasters

Category:Chess Olympiad competitors

Category:Asian Games medalists in chess

Category:Chess players at the 2006 Asian Games

Category:Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games

Category:21st-century Kazakhstani chess players

Category:People from Oral, Kazakhstan

Category:Asian Games gold medalists for Kazakhstan

Category:Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games