WGMNilufar Yakubbaeva

Nilufar Yakubbaeva was born in Tashkent in 2000. She won three consecutive Uzbek women's championships from 2019 through 2021. She became a woman international master in 2020 and a woman grandmaster in 2022. Her progress toward the open IM title included norms at the 2021 Tashkent Open and the second President's Cup in Uzbekistan. She also won the leading women's prize at the 2022 Abu Dhabi Masters. Outside tournaments, she studied mathematics at the National University of Uzbekistan. Her younger brother, Nodirbek Yakubboev, is also a national champion.