Rustem Hazitovich Dautov (, born 28 November 1965 in
Ufa) is a German
chess player of Tatar origin who holds the
FIDE title of
Grandmaster.
In 1983 he won the USSR U18 youth championship and in 1986 the
Belarusian Chess Championship. He completed his military service in the 1980s in the sports department of the Soviet army, which was stationed in
East Germany. In this period he participated in various GDR tournaments: in 1984, he was second (after
Valery Chekhov) in
Berlin. Tournament victories include
Dresden in 1986,
Rostock,
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and Dresden in 1987, and
Minsk and Dresden in 1988. In 1989 he was awarded the
FIDE
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title of
International Master
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(IM). In 1990, he won in
Münster and was awarded the Grandmaster (GM) title. The following year, he won tournaments in
Porz and
Bad Lauterberg
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Bad Lauterberg is known ''inter alia' ...
.
In 1992, Dautov settled in
Seeheim-Jugenheim. Since 1996 he plays for the German national team. Between 1996 and 2004, he took part in five
Chess Olympiads
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. His biggest success was in 2000 at the
34th Chess Olympiad
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in
Istanbul, where he and his team got the silver medal (Russia scored gold). Dautov also scored two individual bronze medals, one for his
rating performance of 2788 and one for his 8.5/11 score on the third board.
In 1996, Dautov won (jointly with
Artur Yusupov) the international
German Chess Championship, he finished second in the championship of 1999. In the late 1990s he won tournaments in
Bad Homburg
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(1997),
Seefeld (1997),
Essen
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(1999) (shared with
Vadim Zvjaginsev,
Emil Sutovsky and
Larry Christiansen) and
Deizisau 2002 (amongst others shared with
Vladimir Epishin and
Levon Aronian
Levon Grigori Aronian ( hy, Լևոն Գրիգորի Արոնյան, Levon Grigori Aronyan; born 6 October 1982) is an Armenians, Armenian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster, who currently plays for the United States Chess Federation. A ches ...
). He participated in the
FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and the
FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, where he was knocked out in the second and first round respectively.
Dautov took on professional
poker
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in recent years. He plays regularly in the German
Chess Bundesliga for ''OSC Baden-Baden'' and the Swiss National League A for chess club ''Lucerne''. He has written numerous articles for
New in Chess and authored a
Chessbase DVD 'Queen's gambit with 5.Bf4'.
Since the season 2016/17, Dautov plays for the team of SF Deizisau in the Second Chess Bundesliga.
References
Short Biography of Rustem DautovDautov's Queen's gambit with 5.Bf4
External links
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1965 births
Living people
Russian chess players
German chess players
German poker players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Soviet emigrants to Germany
Sportspeople from Ufa