Saidali Iuldachev ( uz, Saidali Yo‘ldoshev, script=Latn; born January 31, 1968) is an

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...

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Grandmaster (1997).

Career

He won Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1993 and 2003. In 2004 he tied for 2nd–4th with Praveen Thipsay and

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in the Piloo Mody International Open in

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and tied for first with

Maxim Sorokin Maxim Sorokin (22 January 1968 – 30 June 2007) was a Russian chess Grandmaster (1992). In 1998–2002 he played for Argentina. In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. In 2007 he coache ...

in the Murzagaliev Memorial in

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. In 2009 he tied for 5th–10th with

, Georgy Timoshenko, Sundar Shyam,

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and Shukhrat Safin in the Mumbai Mayor Cup. Iuldachev played for Uzbekistan in the

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s of 1992, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2008. He took part in the

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, but was knocked out in the first round by

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. In the May 2010

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list, he has an

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of 2511, making him Uzbekistan's number four.

Notable games

Mikhail Krasenkow vs Saidali Iuldachev, 34th Olympiad 2000, Spanish Game: General (C65), 0-1Saidali Iuldachev vs Alexander Hilario Ta Fier, 37th Chess Olympiad 2006, Sicilian Defense: Closed Variation (B23), 1-0

References

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* 1968 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Uzbekistani chess players {{Uzbekistan-chess-bio-stub