GMFarrukh Amonatov

Farrukh Amonatov was born in Dushanbe in 1978 and won the Asian under-sixteen championship in 1992. He became a grandmaster in 2002. Although he settled in Moscow, he continued representing Tajikistan internationally. He won the first Moscow Open in 2005, then reached the second round of that year’s World Cup before losing to Magnus Carlsen. He won the Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent in 2008 and again in 2016. In the latter year he also won the Eurasian Blitz Cup in Almaty, finishing ahead of Ian Nepomniachtchi on tiebreak. Alongside competition, he has coached Russia’s junior team and run training camps for young players.