Shamsiddin Vokhidov | |||||||||||||||
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Country | Uzbekistan | ||||||||||||||
Born | [1] | January 11, 2002||||||||||||||
Title | Grandmaster (2020) | ||||||||||||||
FIDE rating | 2591 (April 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Peak rating | 2601 (February 2023) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shamsiddin Vokhidov is an Uzbekistani chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster, which he was awarded in 2020. [2]
Vokhidov won the U14 World Youth Chess Championship in 2015. [3]
At the age of 16, Vokhidov defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen at the 2018 World Rapid Chess Championship. [4]
Vokhidov won the Asian Hybrid Championship in May 2021, qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2021. [5] He defeated Luka Paichadze in the first round, but was defeated by Sergey Karjakin in the second round.
In 2023 in Almaty he won Asian Chess Championship. [6]
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