Nodirbek Abdusattorov

Nodirbek Fazliddin ugli Abdusattorov was born on 18 September 2004 in Tashkent. He is an Uzbek chess grandmaster who earned the title at 13. In 2012 he won the Under-8 section of the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia, and at nine he beat two grandmasters at the Georgy Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent.

In December 2021 he won the World Rapid Chess Championship, becoming at 17 years and 3 months the youngest rapid world champion and the youngest world champion in any of the three time-control formats; he beat Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana along the way and Ian Nepomniachtchi in the tiebreak. In 2021 he also won the El Llobregat and Sitges opens in Spain, and in 2022 the Sharjah Masters.

He played top board for Uzbekistan at the 2022 Chess Olympiad in Chennai, where the team won gold and he took individual silver; in 2024 the team won bronze and he repeated silver; at the 46th Olympiad in Samarkand in 2026 the team won gold and he won individual gold on board 1 (8.5/11, undefeated). In 2023 he tied for second with Magnus Carlsen at Tata Steel and won the Norway Chess blitz event. In 2024 he won the Prague International Chess Festival and the TePe Sigeman tournament and reached world No. 4 in April (2765). In 2025 he won the London Chess Classic and finished runner-up at the World Blitz Championship, losing the final to Magnus Carlsen. In January 2026 he won the Tata Steel Masters, and in March the Prague festival.