Photo: Frans Peeters
FIDE World Rating: 5
Elo: 2771
Born: September 18, 2004, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
2014: At the age of 9, he defeated two grandmasters in the Tashkent Open.
2017: Became a grandmaster at the age of 13.
2021: Won the World Rapid Chess Championship and became the youngest world champion ever in this format.
2022: Part of the Uzbekistan team winning the Chess Olympiad and his rating is now above the 2700 limit.
2024: Among his tournament successes this year was his victory in the TePe Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament.
2025: Finished second in the World Blitz Chess Championship after a dramatic loss to Magnus Carlsen in the final.
2026: Won Tata Steel Masters – the Wimbledon of chess – in Wijk aan Zee, and followed this up by winning the Prague Masters in March.