Farrukh Amonatov (; born 13 April 1978 in

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) is a Tajikistani

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grandmaster. Along with Magaram Magomedov, they are the only Grandmasters of

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. Amonatov is also the winner of many international tournaments and recently won the Mumbai Mayors Cup 2019. Despite living and training in

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, he represents Tajikistan in international tournaments. Amonatov is the official coach of the Russian Juniors chess team and conducts chess camps with talented juniors from all over the world.

Career

Amonatov was the Asian under-16 champion in 1992. He won the inaugural Moscow Open in 2005. Later that year Amonatov competed in the

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, where he knocked out

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in the first round and then eliminated in the second by

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. In 2007, he qualified for the Superfinal of the

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and finished 10th. In 2008 Amonatov tied for first place with

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and

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in the 2nd

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Memorial in

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, winning the tournament on tiebreak. He took part in the 2009 FIDE World Cup, where he reached the second round, in which he lost to the eventual winner,

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. In 2015 Amonatov tied for 1st–3rd with

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and Petr Kostenko at the 4th Central Asia Chess Cup in

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, finishing second on a tiebreak. The following year, Amonatov won for the second time the Agzamov Memorial (on tiebreak from

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), and also won the Eurasian

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Cup of the President of Kazakhstan, held in Almaty, edging out on tiebreak (number of wins)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Amonatov, Farrukh 1978 births Living people Tajikistani chess players 21st-century Russian chess players 21st-century Russian sportsmen Chess Grandmasters Russian people of Tajikistani descent Sportspeople from Dushanbe National team coaches Chess coaches