FMAbdumajid Botiraliev

Abdumajid Botiraliev was born in Uzbekistan’s Izboskan district in 2012 and began studying chess in 2018. His first coach was Nargiza Akbarova, and his later teachers included Bobur Sattorov, Akmal Fayzullayev and Abdulmalik Abdusalimov. A 2025 newspaper profile described him as a five-time national age-group champion and a pupil at Izboskan’s School No. 5. He won three under-ten gold medals at the 2022 Western Asia Championship in the Maldives. FIDE awarded him the Candidate Master title in 2024 and the FIDE Master title in 2025. In 2026 he helped Wisdom School win the Asian qualifying tournament for the World Schools Team Championship in Almaty. He also belonged to Uzbekistan’s under-fourteen team that took bronze in the rapid team competition held alongside the 2026 world youth championships in Serbia.