Name Shukhrat Safin Role Chess Player | Died September 20, 2009 | |
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Shukhrat Safin (3 April 1970 – 20 September 2009) was an Uzbekistani chess grandmaster. He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, where he was knocked out in the first round by Predrag Nikolić.
Safin played for Uzbekistan's national team in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2008, in the World Team Chess Championship 2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1995 and 2003. In the 1995 event he won two medals: team bronze and individual silver on board four.
Safin was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1999. In 2001, he won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 2002 Safin tied for 1st–3rd with Mikhail Ulibin and Evgeny Gleizerov at the Masters tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival. In 2008 he came third in the Kolkata Open. In 2009, he tied for 5th-10th with Chakkravarthy Deepan, Georgy Timoshenko, Sundar Shyam, Saidali Iuldachev and Andrei Deviatkin in the Mumbai Mayor Cup. He died of blood cancer in his native city of Samarkand.