Chess player Saparmurat Atabaev, 24, from Turkmenistan has won the Rocking-2023 Masters Chess Festival held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The National Chess Federation reports that Saparmurat took the lead in the 6th round after defeating his main rival from the USA, Timur Gareyev, with 6 points in 6 games.
Saparmurat, who started the tournament with an Elo/FIDE rating of 2497, added 7 more rating points in the 9 rounds of competition to cross the 2500 mark.
It is expected that Saparmurat will be officially awarded the title of International Grandmaster at the next meeting of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Council.
Eziz Boyarov
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