GMTemur Kuybokarov

Temur Kuybokarov was born in Tashkent in 2000 and initially played under the surname Igonin. His mother and first coach, Tatyana Igonina, taught him chess at five. He won bronze in the 2010 Asian Under-10 Championship after sharing the highest score. At eleven he defeated Viswanathan Anand in a simultaneous exhibition.

His family moved to Perth in 2016, and he began representing Australia in 2018. He won the Australian Open in 2017 and 2019, earning grandmaster norms at the Australian Open, Aeroflot Open and Gold Coast Open. He received the title in 2019, becoming Western Australia's first grandmaster. In 2020 he became the first West Australian to win the Australian championship. His later successes included the 2021 Mersin Open and the 2022 Perth Open.